An Overview of the Services and Costs Required to Send Cold Emails
In this section I will list the companies that we use at OKZest for sending cold emails. Other companies are available (and can be interchanged at any time), but this will give you a good starting point.
The suggested quantity and costs in this table are for someone starting with cold emailing. It allows for the sending of 300 emails per day. You can scale it up later, simply by adding more domains and email accounts.
The costs listed in this table are on pay monthly subscriptions, they are cheaper if you pay yearly.
Service | Description | Provider | Suggested Quantity | Cost (each) |
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Domains | Domains used specifically for cold emailing | Cloudflare | 2 | $9.15/year |
Email accounts | 3-5 email accounts per domain | Google Workspace | 6 (3 per domain) | $6/month |
Email account warm up service | Sends and receives generated emails, to imitate that your domains can be trusted | Instantly | 1 | $97/month |
Lead acquisition service | Obtain emails and personal information for a select group of people | Leadhype | 1 | $97/month (might only need it once evey 6 months, it depends how many emails you send to each person) |
Lead validation service | Checks that the emails you have obtained are valid and unlikely to be rejected | Bulk Email Checker | 1 | $9.95 to check 10,000 emails |
Email templates | Review email subjects and content that has been proven to work for your niche | Review lots | Free | |
Image personalisation service | Increase recipient engagement, click-through rates and sales with personalised images | OKZest | 1 | $47 for up to 10,000 generated images |