SlyLeadz

Sly Leadz - Your Partner in B2B Sales Growth

TIRED OF SLUGGISH SALES GROWTH?

At Sly Leadz, we help B2B businesses like yours THRIVE by crafting compelling outreach systems that LAND ideal clients and FILL your sales pipeline!

OUR MISSION:
We're on a mission to revolutionize B2B sales by providing a personalized, results-driven approach to outreach and lead generation.

Founder

Konecte

Sales Director

Keeper Security, Inc.

Account Executive - SMB

Business Development Representative

BlueGrace Logistics

Carrier Sales Representative

Founder @ Slyleadz | I help startups build cold outbound systems that generate qualified meetings | 💌 slyleadz.us

STRUGGLING TO FILL YOUR PIPELINE WITH QUALIFIED LEADS?

I've been there. After testing 1000+ outreach campaigns, I cracked the code.

Now, I help B2B companies build outbound systems that:
→ Generate 20-30 qualified meetings/month
→ Convert cold prospects into warm conversations
→ Scale predictably without the spam tactics

Our secret?
- Multi-channel outreach that actually works
- AI-powered personalization at scale
- Follow-up sequences with 40%+ response rates
- Data-driven targeting that finds your ideal customers

Recent wins:
→ Helped a SaaS startup book 100+ demos in 60 days
→ Built a 7-figure pipeline for a tech company in 90 days
→ Generated 500+ qualified leads for enterprise clients

Want to stop guessing and start closing?
Book a strategy call: calendly.com/slyleadz/slyleadz-15-minute-meeting-clone

Nick Palasz

Every tool here replaced a mistake

And that’s why this system’s simple

We didn’t set out to build a “tech stack”

We just fixed what kept breaking...until the noise stopped

Here’s what stayed 👇

Clay – Aggregates 50+ data sources to find the right leads
Icypeas – Verified contacts + LinkedIn enrichment that actually holds up
Prospeo.io – Multi-signal scoring so we talk to buyers, not browsers
Writesonic – AI copy that still sounds human
Aimfox – Personalization at scale (without losing relevance)
Smartlead – Keeps campaigns consistent and inbox-safe
Instantly.ai – A/B testing + analytics that guide
Saleshandy – Smarter follow-ups that feel natural
Inframail – Infrastructure that keeps deliverability rock solid
MailReach – Protects inbox placement and reputation
HubSpot – The single source of truth that ties it all together

P.S Which tool is your favourite?

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30 outbound experiments you can run in the next 30 days

Save this post; these are the tests most teams don’t run but should

Inside you’ll find →
– ICP & targeting audits
– Trigger-based prospecting
– Deliverability reset sprints
– Messaging clarity rewrites
– Personalization depth tests
– Cadence density + velocity checks
– Human-first follow-up systems
– Sequence drift & hygiene audits

Plus 20+ more experiments to help you tighten your system, sharpen your messaging, and build predictable pipeline in 2025 and 2026

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Your reps aren't lazy, they're exhausted

I used to think my outbound team just wasn't hungry enough

Then I realized, they were spending more time managing tools than actually selling

→ CRM over here
→ Email platform over there
→ Spreadsheets for tracking
→ Another tab for deliverability checks

By the time they're ready to hit send, half their energy is already gone 🤷

Sounds familiar, right?

So I put together 5 reasons why outbound teams burn out and how Saleshandy can help them

Swipe the carousel to learn more about it 👇

Saleshandy

5 reasons your outbound team feels burnt out

Why do agencies with $50K MRR feel more chaotic than startups at $500K ARR?

It's simple… startups build infrastructure before they scale

Agencies duct-tape tools together while juggling clients 🤷

And then reality looks like this 

→ Switching between 5+ platforms per client 
→ Managing dozens of logins 
→ Hunting for reports across different dashboards 
→ Triple checking you're in the right inbox before hitting send

This is not growth, this is pure survival

You don’t need more tools, you need better ones

One platform to manage leads, send cold emails, warm up inboxes, track performance, and handle multiple clients

And I prefer Saleshandy for it

No tool-switching problem 

No per-seat pricing nightmares

Just centralized client management that actually scales because clients don't care how many tools you use

They care about results

Swipe the carousel to learn more about it 👇

If you're managing clients in 5 diff tools 

AI didn’t help. It hid the mess.

Every founder rushes to plug AI into their outbound

Now the inbox feels like a copy factory

-Same tone
-Same structure
-Same fake personalization

AI didn’t make you better

It just made the chaos look cleaner

Because when your inputs are weak, AI just scales the weakness

Outbound isn’t about prompts

It’s about the process and knowing who you’re talking to and why they should care

AI can’t fix that

It only hides it

If your outbound looks polished but performs the same, it’s not the tool

It’s the system behind it

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I stopped hating rejection when I saw the pattern

Every “No” used to sting

Now it’s just another metric to study

Because not all No’s mean the same thing

Here’s how 👇

“Not right now” → timing data
“Not relevant” → ICP feedback
“We already use X” → positioning clue

Every rejection leaves a breadcrumb

You just have to be smart enough to trace it back to the system

The more I studied the No’s, the faster I fixed what actually mattered 
-Offer
-Targeting
-And message

The Yes’s came later

They always do

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rejection that pays you back

This is me explaining to my family what I do for a living and somehow it gets more confusing the longer I talk.

It always starts simple:

“I help startups book more meetings.”

Then someone asks, “So… you just send emails?”

 And suddenly I’m 10 minutes deep explaining:

 – inbox warmups
 – deliverability
 – intent signals
 – ICP accuracy
 – and why one wrong domain setting can ruin your entire week

This is the point when my whole family just gives me that Thanksgiving look
 
The one where they’re not sure if I’m explaining my job or about to impersonate the turkey

But hey it pays the bills, fixes pipelines, and keeps founders from panicking every Monday morning 😂

Late on the post but Happy Thanksgiving everyone 🦃

Hope you all had an amazing one

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AI took the excuses personally

Now it’s just you, the system and accountability 😬

And honestly, we weren’t avoiding the work before

It just took forever to get stuff done

Research dragged
Personalization dragged even more
Writing one email felt like a whole shift

So yeah the “no time” excuse used to make sense

But then AI showed up and suddenly all the slow stuff wasn’t slow anymore

Which means if outbound still feels inconsistent…

It’s not because of AI, it's because of your system

Swipe through the carousel to see what actually changed and DM me "AI" if your outbound needs help

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the moment ai removed all excuses

Did your voice crack on your first call too?

Because mine definitely did 💀

And honestly, that’s the part nobody tells you

Cold calling doesn’t start with confidence

It starts with sweaty palms, shaky intros, and questioning every life choice you’ve ever made

But give it a few months?

You go from “Uh… is this a bad time?”
To “Hey John, quick one got a sec?”

The work stays the same

But you don’t

You get better at the awkward pauses, the messy intros, the fast pivots all the stuff that felt like chaos on day one

P.S. Comment your first cold call memory let’s laugh or cry together 😂

Warning⚠️  

This list may cause emotional damage

Because every seller pretends they’re built different until you realize we all operate the same way under pressure

The mid-call Google searches
The enthusiastic intro no one asked for
The 11-day “I’ll follow up tomorrow” delay
The CRM blame-game Olympics

We’ve all done it

We just don’t admit it publicly

Drop the number that hurt your soul the most 👇

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The breakthrough wasn’t a tool… it was cleaning up the mess

And that’s when everything started working again

We didn’t try to “build a stack”

We just fixed what kept breaking until the pipeline finally stopped fighting us

Here’s what stayed 👇

PhantomBuster- Scrapes real buyers not random titles
LeadMagic - Finds the hidden visitors already showing intent
Clay - Turns raw signals into clean, usable lead intelligence
Icypeas - Verified emails + enrichment that doesn’t fall apart
Prospeo.io - Find business email addresses for outreach.  
Aimfox- Personalization at scale that still feels human
Writesonic - Context-aware copy that doesn’t sound robotic
Smartlead -Safe sending + consistent outbound volume
Instantly.ai - Sales Engagement & Lead Intelligence  
Saleshandy - Follow-ups that land naturally
Inframail - Protects deliverability from collapsing
MailReach -Keeps inboxes warm, clean, and trusted

P.S. Which tool are you keeping in your stack this year?

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Back at the starting line. Again.

Every salesperson knows this moment the quiet pause before another chase begins

Last month’s wins fade faster than they should

The deals closed, the high-fives, the end-of-month rush…

They all reset to zero overnight

And suddenly, it’s back to building

New leads. New follow-ups. New conversations

It’s equal parts thrilling and exhausting because starting from scratch never really gets easier

But maybe that’s what keeps it real

The clean slate forces a new version of yourself to show up 

One that’s hungrier, sharper, a little more grounded than before

So here’s to the rebuild 

The quiet part nobody celebrates

But the part that makes every win worth it

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Not every deal’s meant to close and it's okay

When I first got into outbound, I thought every ‘no’ was a reflection of me

Every Closed Lost felt like failure

I’d overthink the follow-ups, rewrite the emails, and convince myself I should’ve done more

But over time, I learned something that completely flipped my mindset 

A lost deal doesn’t mean you did something wrong

Sometimes it means timing’s off
Sometimes the fit isn’t right 
And sometimes it’s just not your deal to win 🤷

Those moments taught me more than any course or sales hack ever could

What worked? What didn’t?

Why did some people lean in while others ghosted?

That’s how growth happens, quietly, between all the no’s and not yets.

So if you’re just getting started, remember

You don’t need to close every deal

You just need to learn from the ones you lose

That’s how you stop taking rejection personally 

And start taking it professionally

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Outbound is entering its filter era

Where strategy starts to matter again

The problem isn’t that outbound stopped working 

It’s that everyone kept copying what they used to

Templates. Tools. Tricks.

All trying to sound “personal” and ending up sounding the same

Your prospects don’t need more messages

They need meaning

The teams that’ll win in 2026?

They’ll stop chasing open rates and start engineering systems that earn attention

One's built with data that flows, context that connects, and structure that actually scales

Outbound’s not a volume game anymore

It’s a systems game

This is outbound, evolved

See the cheatsheet to learn what’ll still work when everything else fails

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Your people notice the damage long before the numbers expose it

And once the numbers react, the damage has already spread

Because bad sales cultures don’t blow up your numbers first they blow up your team

And it starts quietly

Reps stop asking real questions
Managers start obsessing over quota
Buyers feel sold instead of helped
And suddenly every call feels like a pitch instead of a conversation

That’s when performance drops

Not because the reps don’t care but because the culture is working against them

I’ve watched teams with insane potential fall apart this way
Great product.
Great talent
But the environment kept breaking them long before the metrics showed anything was wrong

And here’s the part nobody likes admitting:

The fix isn’t a new script, a new cadence, or a new tool

It’s the environment
→ help the buyer
→ coach curiosity
→ reward doing it right not rushing the close

Because when a team actually believes in how they sell?

Everything else becomes easier

The results always follow

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Mailerr

Chief Executive Officer

Grow Surely

Partner

Vinna

Instantly.ai

Outbound Partner

Data Catalyst Ltd

Worked with digital banking providers sending between 200 - 400 thousand emails per day (inbound + outbound)

Email Deliverability Manager

Influencers.Club

Managed cold email infrastructure for clients like HP, Discord, Amazon, AliExpress, L’Oreal Paris, Fourthwall, etc

Senior Deliverability & Outreach Manager

Email Deliverability & Client Account Manager

Junior Email Deliverability Manager

Email Outreach System Integrations Admin

Fiverr

A side job to keep me occupied and improving in different fields.

I immensely enjoyed the small experiences I had using WordPress Elementor/Shopify’s web builder and always had a thing for writing so I figured to turn it into something I can work on the side. I started offering to build landing pages and write SEO-friendly copy for online stores to continue refining my skills and eye for detail.

I stopped working as a freelancer once I was promoted to a higher position at Influencers.Club so I can focus on my responsibilities.

Web Builder/Copywriter

George Kapernaros

My first professional working experience at 20 years of age.

 Some of my responsibilities and learning insights include:

- Building email automation flows that focused on customer retention
- Writing search engine optimized copy and editing content for emails
- Managing my first client for which I was responsible to build and manage weekly campaigns
- Building segments to target specific customers from clients' email lists
- Nurturing leads through written communications
- Proofreading key messages in templates
- Tracking and analyzing campaign results
- Building monthly data-based audit presentations for a client with improvement suggestions
- Ensuring the design and layouts of emails are optimized, user and mobile-friendly
- Building and designing sign-up forms
- Performing thorough A/B testing regularly
- Coping with and growing in a disorganized work environment

Junior Email Marketing Specialist

Shopify

My first taste of digital marketing.

After being hooked on dropshipping videos for a few months I decided to give it a try myself. Having zero experience, very limited funds and time to support this dream, it was not a success. Nevertheless, living through this occurrence made me realize how passionate I am about digital marketing, and as a result, I eventually convinced my parents to take a break from college to attend Brainster's Digital Marketing Academy - where I later landed a job after only 3 months (the earliest in Brainster's history).

Some of the first experiences I had during this short 1-month endeavor include:

- Managing an Instagram and Facebook page
- Instagram & Facebook Ads
- Influencer Marketing
- Web Building
- Creating Video and Photo Ads

Ecommerce Dropshipping

Cold Email & Deliverability | Growth | Partner @ Vinna.ai

If you're interested in improving your cold emails you've come to the right place.

I’ve worked for clients like Discord, Jellysmack, L'Oreal Paris, Fourthwall, Creative Juice, PearPop, and many more, sending over 14 million cold emails.

My passion is to share knowledge I've gained from 5 years of experience with businesses and individuals who want to get the most out of their cold emailing process.

If you think there’s any way we can help each other feel free to DM me!

Jovan Shojlevski

I wasted $3,000 on bad contact data last quarter.

Here's what I learned:

Your ICP research means nothing if you can't reach them

I was building perfect lists in Clay

- Great targeting
- Ideal companies
- Perfect firmographics 

But my email enrichment was finding only 40% of contacts

The problem?

I was using the wrong tools for email finding

Here's what changed everything:

I started running Prospeo.io in my Clay workflows

The difference was immediate:

Found 30% more valid emails than without it

Coverage jumped from 40% to 70%+ on most lists

Email accuracy remained consistently high

Why does this matter?

Every missing email is a missed conversation.

Every missed conversation is lost revenue.

The math is simple:

Better data coverage = More conversations = More deals

Now my enrichment workflow looks like this:

- Build targeting in Clay
- Run Prospeo.io for email enrichment
- Push to Instantly.ai

My reply rates didn't just improve.

My cost per booked call dropped by 40%.

Because I'm actually reaching the people I want to talk to.

A client got their main domain blacklisted

All because of a 5% bounce rate

Even though you should never be sending from your main domain;

Most founders think deliverability is about avoiding "spammy" words

It's not

It's about list hygiene

And most people skip this step entirely

I used to think email verification was optional too in the beginning

"My lists are fresh from scraping, they'll be fine."

I was dead wrong

Even "fresh" data contains:

- Catch-all emails that bounce randomly
- Typos that destroy your sender score
- Deactivated addresses that look valid

One bad campaign can kill months of domain warming

Here's what changed everything for me (and the client):

I started running every single email through Bouncer

Before it touches my sending domains

No exceptions

Most verifiers give you a simple yes/no

Bouncer gives you a risk score

It shows:

- Which emails are spam traps
- Which addresses are toxic
- Which catch-alls will actually hurt you

This lets you make smart decisions instead of gambling

The results?

- Bounce rates dropped under 1%
- Domains stay healthy for months
- No more losing domains to bad data

So keep this simple rule:

Every email gets verified before it enters your sending platform

Because your deliverability isn't about what you write

It's about who you're sending to

5 Reasons cold email beginners land in spam

(and simple fixes) 

If your emails are going to spam

You are missing out on potential leads and conversions

So here are 5 mistakes that could be taking you to spam and what to do instead: 

1. Not verifying your contacts

↳ Verify every contact list with tools like Bouncer

2. Hard-to-read content

↳ Keep the message simple and to the point

WordCounter and Hemingway are game-changers for this

3. Not optimized for mobile

↳ Most read email on mobile, if they don’t have a good experience 

They are more likely to give you negative engagement

4. Overlooking basic authentication

↳ Setup SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to verify your sender identity

Most infrastructure providers do this automatically

This is crucial to build trust with ESPs and improve deliverability

5. Not monitoring performance

↳ Always analyze stats to make decisions and optimize future campaigns

This includes monitoring domain-specific performance metrics (Peeker AI helps so much with this if you're a beginner)

Never settle for results you know are below average

Look at your stats daily and look for what is underperforming and why

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