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Case study: workplace benefits provider in the UK

A health and pension benefits provider came to us to reach recruitment and accounting firms. We built the list, wrote the emails and handled every reply.

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33.61%

of all responses turned into sales leads

The campaign

What the numbers say

Cold email works outside the US. This campaign ran in the UK, under GDPR, emailing business contacts in a professional context under legitimate interest, with a clear sender and an easy opt-out. If anything, UK firms were easier to reach than we expected.

Recruitment and accounting firms are people businesses. Hiring and keeping staff is their biggest cost, so health and pension benefits are a board-level topic. That's why the list went to CEOs and CFOs as well as HR.

The average open rate was 64.77%. We report it because we tracked it, but treat it lightly: since 2021, Apple Mail and some security tools load emails automatically, which inflates open rates. The response-to-lead rate is the number that matters.

How we'd run this campaign today

Most cold email is written from the seller's side. Ours is written from the buyer's: just enough to make them curious, in as few words as it takes. Here's what a campaign like this looks like now.

1

The list

Built by hand around the target customer and the decision-makers above. Every contact verified before a single email goes out.

2

The copy

A first email plus a 2 to 3 step follow-up, written by humans for that one audience. Short, specific, with a small ask.

3

The setup

Dedicated domains and inboxes, warmed up for weeks, sending around 600 emails a day. The client's main domain is never touched.

4

The replies

We filter out the noise and forward every Sales Ready Lead the same day. The client runs the conversation and closes.

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