Cold Email marketing
Email Warm Up 101:
Definition, Importance, and Methods
Let's say you have a fantastic email campaign planned. You are eager to get started and have prepared a series of targeted emails with attention-grabbing subject lines and call to action. You also have a list of potential customers. After clicking "send," you can relax and watch the responses come in.
However, they don't. You receive no response. Not a single click, response, or open. How on earth is that possible?
Well, relevant lists and well-written, tailored emails are great, but if your
emails aren't getting sent at all, that's all that matters. Your sender reputation is one of the most significant aspects that can impact your delivery rate.
Email warm-up becomes useful in this situation.
We'll examine its definition in more detail, its significance, and the most effective techniques for warming up your email address in this piece.
What is email warm-up?
In order to circumvent spam filters and establish a good reputation with email providers, sending a steady increase in emails from a new account is known as "email warm-up."
An email could previously be warmed up depending only on the quantity of emails sent. It looks fair if a newly created email account sends fifteen emails on its first day of use. It would seem suspicious if there was an overnight spike from zero to one thousand emails. If the figures added up, you might be establishing a solid reputation.
Email service providers (ESPs) now use other elements in their evaluation of your reputation. They will specifically examine how receivers react to your messaging. Do people read, respond to, and flag your emails as important? Or are they getting tagged as spam, erased, and ignored? Email warm-up now needs to demonstrate that recipients find value in your communications in order to maintain that great reputation.
When attempting to define email warm-up, there are a few key differences to consider. It will take longer to warm up a new email account on an established domain (name@example.com) than it will to warm up a brand-new domain (example.com). When getting an email address warmed up, you should consider both.
What is the purpose of warming up your email?
Why even bother with a separate email warm-up procedure may be on your mind. Ultimately, because you're already going to be sending emails, why not use your newly created account to initiate a conversation with possible prospects at a lesser volume initially?
Email warm-ups, in contrast to conventional email campaigns, are made with the express purpose of increasing deliverability. The open and reply rates of email marketing efforts to highly engaged groups can be poor, even with the best of them. A few people can easily flag your campaign as spam, putting you on a blacklist.
Without Email Warm-up
Sending cold emails without enough warmup, regardless of the account's age, might negatively impact your deliverability.
❌ You'll receive spam or trash emails.
❌ Your domain may be placed on a blacklist.
❌ Your ability to send emails is blocked
With Email Warm-up
When using your email account for outreach, make sure it's warmed up properly to ensure maximum deliverability for your messages.
☑️ Your inbox receives your emails
☑️ You establish a strong sender reputation.
☑️ You can expand your outreach without risk.
Thus, before utilizing an email account for outreach, there are a few reasons to warm it up.
Warming up emails enhances (or restores) your sender reputation
Building a good reputation is the goal of email warm-up, as we've already discussed. ESPs, such as Gmail and Outlook, verify a sender's reputation prior to approving their email in order to guarantee the best possible experience for its subscribers.
An email account has a neutral reputation when it is first created. From that point on, every action you and the recipients of your emails take will be assessed and factored into determining your reputation. An email user's reputation is enhanced by actions that appear to be typical, daily behaviors (such as sending and receiving a small number of emails every day).
However, sending a lot of emails that are returned unanswered or flagged as spam will damage your reputation. ESPs won't accept your emails if that reputation declines too much.
Whether you're trying to rebuild a broken reputation or start from zero, email warm-up assists you in developing that reputation by allowing you to send and receive emails in a natural way.
Warming up emails increases their deliverability for sales outreach.
An effective sales email is the result of many things coming together. Regrettably, ESPs may object to tactics that are employed in persuasive sales emails.
To grab readers' attention, for instance, utilizing customized photos in your outreach is a terrific idea. Regretfully, spammers attempt to evade filters by substituting photos for text. This means that every image attached to an email could raise a red alert and be investigated by ESP.
Similar to this, a sales email's call to action (CTA) will frequently include a link that allows the recipient to schedule an appointment or view a product demo. Though URL shortening services, like bit.ly, are widely used and can make URLs appear much more organized than a lengthy, complex text string, spammers can also use them to trick email recipients into visiting an incorrect location.
Spam filters can be avoided by adhering to email deliverability best practices, which include using full links to high-authority domains and ensuring that at least 80% of your message contains text.
Make sure to perform a full account warm-up using the exact email templates and signatures you will be utilizing for outreach if you want to further improve your inbox placement. Sending those messages to the recipients' inboxes and having them opened and responded to will send a strong message to ESPs about the safety and reliability of those links and photos.
Email warm-up expedites the scaling of your outreach.
Email warm-up drastically reduces the amount of time it takes to establish your reputation, despite the fact that it may appear like a laborious operation. You can get your email account manually warmed up in two to three weeks. After that, you can begin sending cold emails, progressively increasing the quantity sent every few days (see to the example 3-day ramp-up framework below for guidance).
emails
1
2
4
10
20
50
number of emails per day
25
50
100
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1,250
number of emails per month
550
1,100
2,200
5,500
11,000
27,500
As we'll see in the next section, the procedure can be finished even faster by employing a specialized application and automating those warm-up emails.
Even while you can get right into your email campaign without doing the warm-up, it will take some time to notice the favorable signals that build that reputation. To make matters worse, a few disgruntled recipients have the power to ruin that reputation and prolong the process.
How to get your email account warmed up
An email account can be warmed up in two major ways. Using a specialized email warm-up tool, you can automate the procedure or complete it manually.
Warm-up emails manually
Manually warming up an email account is frequently thought to be the safest choice because it gives you complete control over the procedure. All you have to do is begin emailing friendly accounts.
You can begin by using email addresses that you already own, such your personal Gmail account or the Hotmail account you still have from college. But unless you have a ton of email addresses lying around, you're going to need some assistance from other individuals. Speak with your loved ones, coworkers, and anybody else you think would be willing to lend you a hand. In order to establish a reputation with various ESPs, it is ideal for you to email a large variety of accounts.
Recall that involvement is another crucial element. Request that the recipients read your messages, respond, and flag them as important. Request that a message be moved to the inbox and marked as safe if it ends up in the spam folder.
Using this method to warm up your email account is free, but it does require some patience and time (as well as some extremely understanding friends and relatives).
Warm-up email automation
You can always utilize a specific email warm-up program to automate the process if you don't want to spend hours sending and replying to warm-up messages. Simply link your email account to the service, then take a seat back and observe the growth of your sender reputation.
Building your reputation quickly and easily can be achieved in this fashion, but it's crucial to use the appropriate instrument. Examine the specifics of each email warm-up service before committing to one. When thinking about various tools, consider the following questions.
☑️ Do they use free or temporary email addresses, or do they use actual accounts to establish their reputation?
☑️ Do they transmit text messages that make no sense at all, or do they send actual communications?
☑️ Sending and receiving messages is one thing, but do they also make sure the communications are appropriately responded to?
These can all significantly affect the reputation of your sender.
Scalability
We need to continuously scale the setup with new accounts while maintaining deliverability across our entire fleet of email accounts. It's crucial to ensure that damaged email accounts don't affect others or jeopardize the whole setup. We'll achieve this by carefully monitoring the setup, rotating email accounts on a weekly basis, and regularly swapping out CDT (Custom Domain Tracking) links.
Flexibility
We aim to construct the system in a way that allows you to resell or repurpose it for your clients. Instead of separating their email accounts and domains across multiple GoDaddy/Microsoft 365 accounts, we’ll build their outreach systems on top of your infrastructure, making you the owner. This, however, requires careful segmentation of the setup to distinguish your clients' results from your own cold email activities. We’ll accomplish this by creating a separate campaign in Instantly for each client and assigning a certain number of email accounts to it. We’ll review the capacity each month and add email accounts based on your growth forecast. This approach ensures you can launch outreach for your clients as soon as they enroll in your program.
cold email package
plan and features
COLD EMAIL
MARKETING
Starting at
$200/mo + $100 Set-up Fee
We use a specialized AI email warm-up tool
Continuously scale email setup
Maintain deliverability across our entire fleet of email accounts
Monitor the setup, rotate email accounts on a weekly basis, and regularly swap out CDT (Custom Domain Tracking) links
Email warm-up drastically reduces the amount of time it takes to establish your reputation
We ramp up your first campaign to achieve maximum deliverability (3 weeks)
CAMPAIGN
Starting at
$75/Campaign
FYI- first "Ramp up" campaign is included on the $200 +$100 plan
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