🪄 15,000 dms in 7 weeks

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Welcome to the 9th issue.

Today's topics:

1. 15,000 dms in 7 weeks

2. Database of 486 Million Public Linkedin Profiles

3. One recommended video on how to send 10,000 cold emails a day

15,000 dms in 7 weeks

I think I've found the next viral app using Product-Led Growth (PLG) that doesn't need huge marketing budget.

Why?

Because the tool markets itself.

If you can build a product that has Product-Led Growth, then you don't need to worry about marketing much.

You still have to market but not as much as other startups do. The marketing is built in the tool itself.

Hotmail did it in 1996 with their email signature hack. Proton mail is still copying it on their free plans.

Kapwing and Veed did it to market their meme-maker and video-editor respectively.

Testimonial and Senja are doing it with their powered-by widgets.

Now, this new tool Link In Chat does it with a different twist.

If you have been on Social Media enough, you'd know that people love to give you a free resource if you provide a comment in the comment section.

Its a great engagement hack as it tells the algorithm "hey, this is an important tweet... show it to more people".

And its been working well for years on Twitter.

Anyone who is trying to increase their followers uses it like this:

Before AI existed for cheap, you'd have to write exactly what the tweet said like in this case Personalize in the comments.

Now that AI exists, you can read the comment, understand it, then reply exactly with what they asked.

Previously, it needed a workflow with what comment you want to send a DM on.

Now it doesn't.

This tool is great if you want to send your followers a link.

All social media sites want to keep their audience on the platform itself that's why it demonitizes posting links. This is a nice way to bypass that restriction.

It provides AI-powered direct message automation, sends unique comments, and sets comments limits so you don't get blocked from commenting really fast.

The best part about this tool is its easy to pitch it to creators on Instagram to get them more sales, subscribers, or followers.

You can pitch it to:

1. D2C Shops - To get their brand more engagement on Instagram by making a "30$ off Coupon" posts

2. Creators - To promote their newsletter, course, or YouTube channel

Combine comments like this with an initial push through blackhat methods like buying comments if you want to increase your followers super fast.

Herd mentality is common everywhere.

If they see more comments, they are more likely to commment.

Posts with more upvotes do get more upvotes.

Use it to your advantage.

Database of 486 Million Public Linkedin Profiles

Scraping is not illegal as long as data is public.

That's how Google does it.

Linkedin ranks on Google because they want their customers (employees) to be discovered or found by their bosses (employers). Or for background check.

So you can actually scrape Linkedin data without too much hassle.

Linkedin has the best bot protection now but it is still possible to scrape it.

But you don't have to do it.

Big companies have spent millions and years doing it which you can use for a very cheap cost.

LinkDB is one such company.

The application of having these targeted emails are enormous from building Job Boards to recruiting people to your company.

Some even use it for Dating:

The applications are endless if you can think out of the box.

One recommended video on how to send 10,000 cold emails a day

Cold Emails are underrated.

Not enough people use them.

If you are an agency with high-ticket service, cold emails should be your main channel as email is everyone's home in the digital world.

This video breaks down the entire process from start to finish on how to send 10,000 cold emails a day.

You can also use cold emails to send your newsletter to a specific target persona. Like this guy did to get 10,000 substack subscribers in 60 days while having no audience.

Rabbit Hole Reads

1. “Powered by”: A Marketing Channel Nobody Talks About - If you can find a powered-by hack for your startup, you'd grow really fast. It doesn't have to be a link. Chartr, a newsletter, does it via their images.

2. 10,000 subscribers in 60 days via Cold Email (no audience needed) - The fastest way to rank on Google is programmatic SEO. If you do it right, you can get 1000s of long-tail keywords to rank on Google.

3. 🔌 The Best Cold Email Of All Time 🥇 - Cold Emails are a terrific way to get someone's attention. Its their digital home. They will open it. Write something intriguing.

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2. How Reddit bans link shorteners in Cold DMs and how to avoid it. (LINK)

3. You only need one channel to make all the money you want. (LINK)