Compliance 4 September 2026 9 min read
CAN-SPAM compliance checklist for cold email
Seven requirements, what each one means for a cold email specifically, and the two that outbound teams get wrong most often.
Six pieces on the parts of outbound that are boring and decisive: what the rules actually require, what to check before a draft leaves, and what to keep afterwards.
No guest posts, no reprints, and no benchmark we did not read the source of.
Compliance 4 September 2026 9 min read
Seven requirements, what each one means for a cold email specifically, and the two that outbound teams get wrong most often.
Operations
28 August 2026 8 min
The reason the pipeline is wrong is rarely dishonesty. It is that the note gets written from memory on Friday afternoon, if at all.
Buying
21 August 2026 10 min
Twelve questions to ask a vendor, in the order that saves you the most time, and the answers that should end the call.
Method
14 August 2026 9 min
A four pass review you can run on any generated draft in about ninety seconds, and the one pass nobody runs.
Craft
7 August 2026 10 min
Sequence length, spacing, what each step is allowed to say, and why the bump that only says "thoughts?" is the one that gets complaints.
The role
31 July 2026 9 min
The SDR job broken into eleven tasks, each marked as automatable, assistable or human, with the reasoning for each call.
Each one covers a single job and states its own limits rather than repeating the pitch.
The drafting side on its own page: what it writes, and what it refuses to assert without a source.
What the score is made of, line by line, and the two things it deliberately does not test.
The cap, the queue and the suppression list, which is the part of a platform nobody demos.
Activity logging, deal notes and next steps, written from the thread instead of from memory.
Where a research tool ends and a list vendor begins, and which one this is.
The four things a cold email has to get right before volume is even worth discussing.
What to automate, what to review, and what a person still has to decide.
Follow ups written against the thread, not against a template with a merge field in it.
The demo drafts an email from what you paste and marks every factual sentence as cited or unverified. It takes about a minute and needs no account.
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