# Problems and solutions: B2B leads and cold email Canonical: https://growfast.sh/solutions | Last updated: 2026-11-13 | Machine-readable list: https://growfast.sh/solutions.json Each question below has a one-sentence answer here and a full page with the fix that works without GrowFast, a comparison where one helps, and when GrowFast is and is not the right tool. We make GrowFast, so weigh our side accordingly. ## Find the right companies and people - [How do I find Reddit posts from people who need what I sell?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/find-reddit-posts-from-people-who-need-your-product.md): Search for the problem in the words people use, sort by new, answer only real questions, disclose you built the product, and never automate the posting. - [How do I define my ideal customer when I have no customers yet?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/define-your-ideal-customer-without-customers.md): Start from the problem, take proxies from competitors' customers and people complaining, write three hypotheses and test each on 20 real companies. - [How do I research a company in a few minutes before cold emailing it?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/research-a-company-before-cold-emailing.md): Read the homepage, the team page and the careers or blog page, then put one specific, true sentence in the first line of the email. - [How do I find the right person's email at a company without guessing the address?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/find-decision-maker-email-without-guessing.md): Use only addresses someone published, check the domain has a mail server, prefer a named person to a role mailbox, and never guess a pattern. ## Write, follow up and handle replies - [How do I write a cold email that gets replies without sounding like a template?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/write-a-cold-email-that-gets-replies.md): Write to one person for one specific reason in under 120 words, with a first line drawn from their site, no links, and one easy question. - [How do I follow up on cold emails without annoying people?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/follow-up-on-cold-emails-without-annoying-people.md): Send at most two short follow-ups a few days apart that are easy to answer, never re-pitch, and stop automatically on reply, unsubscribe or bounce. - [How should I handle replies to cold emails, including "not now" and "unsubscribe"?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/handle-replies-to-cold-emails.md): Sort each reply by type, answer the interested ones personally, honour unsubscribes at once, thank "not now" once and ask wrong-person replies for the right contact. ## Get the email delivered - [How do I clean my own lead list before sending cold email?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/clean-your-lead-list-before-cold-email.md): Dedupe, drop role mailboxes, dead domains, public-sector addresses and past opt-outs, spot-check a sample, then send a small batch; never mail a bought list. - [Why are my cold emails bouncing, and how do I lower the bounce rate?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/why-do-cold-emails-bounce.md): Read the SMTP code, remove hard bounces immediately, check the domain receives mail, avoid role addresses and watch the rate by address type. - [How do I check that SPF, DKIM and DMARC are set up before I send cold email?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/check-spf-dkim-dmarc-before-cold-email.md): Look up the SPF TXT record, the DKIM key at your selector and the _dmarc TXT record, then send a test to Gmail and read the headers for pass results. - [Why do my cold emails land in spam, and how do I fix it?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/why-do-cold-emails-go-to-spam.md): Spam placement comes from failed authentication, bad reputation, deceptive content, volume spikes or poor targeting; diagnose which, then fix that one first. - [How many cold emails can I send per day without hurting my domain?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/how-many-cold-emails-per-day.md): Start a new domain at about 15 a day, raise gradually while bounces and complaints stay low, and count follow-ups in the total. - [Should I send cold email from a separate domain, and how do I set one up?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/set-up-a-separate-domain-for-cold-email.md): Yes for most outreach: keep it off the domain you use for customer mail, authenticate it, identify yourself clearly and ramp slowly. ## Stay within the rules - [Is cold email legal, and what do CAN-SPAM and the UK rules require for B2B outreach?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/is-cold-email-legal-can-spam.md): In the US, cold email is legal if it follows CAN-SPAM's rules, with no B2B exemption; the UK treats corporate subscribers differently, and other places differ again. ## Work with AI agents - [How can I get Claude or ChatGPT to find B2B leads and draft cold emails for me?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/ai-agent-find-leads-and-draft-cold-emails.md): Connect a lead-finding tool over MCP, make the agent cite a source for every company and address, and approve drafts before anything is sent. - [How do I let an AI agent run cold outreach without losing control of what gets sent?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/agent-outreach-guardrails.md): Start draft-only, enforce limits in the sending system rather than the prompt, keep a suppression list and a kill switch, and review before enabling anything automatic. - [Is an AI SDR worth it for a solo founder or a small SaaS team?](https://growfast.sh/solutions/is-an-ai-sdr-worth-it.md): It saves research and drafting time but does not create demand; prove the offer by hand first, then automate the steps you have proven. ## Compare tools and prices - [What is the best cold email software for SaaS founders?](https://growfast.sh/guides/best-cold-email-software-for-saas-founders) - [How do I find B2B leads starting from my product's website?](https://growfast.sh/guides/find-b2b-leads-from-a-domain) - [Is GrowFast worth it for a small team?](https://growfast.sh/guides/is-growfast-worth-it)