Tool

Mail Tester

mail-tester.com Free Beginner

Before you send a single cold email to a real prospect, send one to this tool. It gives you a spam score out of 10, checks your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in one pass, and flags content and formatting issues, so you catch a broken setup on a test message instead of finding out from a prospect's spam folder.

  • Get an instant spam score plus a breakdown of exactly what is wrong
  • Verifies SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are actually passing, not just present
  • Use it every time you change domains, ESPs, or email content, not just once

It answers 2 questions

  1. My cold emails keep landing in spam. How do I fix deliverability?
  2. What's a good response rate for cold email, and how do I know if mine is broken?

Read with it

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  2. The single best thing ever written on customer conversations. It teaches you to ask about the customer's life and past... momtestbook.com Book · ~130 pages The Mom Test Rob Fitzpatrick
  3. The permission slip to recruit users by hand, do things manually, and deliver 'insanely great' experiences to your first few... paulgraham.com Essay · ~15 min read Do Things That Don't Scale Paul Graham
  4. A tactical follow-on covering the channels and motions top B2B startups scale after the first ten. Grounds distribution... Lenny's Newsletter Article · ~15 min read How to win your first 10 B2B customers Lenny Rachitsky
  5. This is the book most modern cold outbound advice quietly borrows from, so reading the source is worth it. Its "Cold Calling... Amazon Book · ~208 pages Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler
  6. Video · About 25 minutes How to Get Your First Customers (Startup School) Gustaf Alstromer
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