Should You Gradually Increase Sending Volume When Sending Cold Emails?

Yes, you should gradually increase your sending volume when sending cold emails from a new email address.

I recommend that you only send 40 cold emails per day per email address. However, if you create a brand new email address, you should not immediately send 40 emails per day, as you risk going to spam.

In this article, I will show you how to gradually increase your sending volume so that your cold emails land in the primary inbox (not spam):

• Why do email service providers not like sudden increases in sending volume?
• How much can you increase your sending volume each week?
• How to send cold email campaigns that gradually increase sending volume
• Final thoughts

Why do email service providers not like sudden increases in sending volume?

Email service providers, such as Gmail and Outlook, will mark your emails as spam if they see a sudden increase in sending volume.

For example, if you buy a new domain, and then create an email address to send cold emails with, then it will be a red flag for email service providers if this brand new email address suddenly starts sending lots of emails from day one.

This is not normal behaviour for a new email account.

Email service providers will assume that your domain and email account are purposely set up to send spam emails, and they will then blacklist all of your emails.

This is why it’s important to gradually build up your sending volume, so that email service providers don’t mark your emails as spam.

Google (Gmail) even states publicly that you should increase sending volume slowly.

How much can you increase your sending volume each week?

I recommend that you follow the below sending volume schedule when sending cold emails from a brand new email address:

Week 1: 5 emails per day per email address.

Week 2: 10 emails per day per email address.

Week 3: 15 emails per day per email address.

Week 4: 20 emails per day per email address.

Week 5: 25 emails per day per email address.

Week 6: 30 emails per day per email address.

Week 7: 35 emails per day per email address.

Week 8: 40 emails per day per email address.

Once you reach 40 cold emails per day per email address, you should not increase further, as you will then risk going to spam.

If you gradually build up your sending volume as described above, then your emails are much less likely to go to spam.

You can read my article How To Safely Scale Up Your Cold Email Outreach to learn how you can send more than 40 cold emails per day.

How to send cold email campaigns that gradually increase sending volume

I recommend that you use Emailchaser to send your cold emails because it automatically increases your sending volume in the manner described above, without you needing to do anything.

If you manually send your cold emails from your Gmail or Outlook account, then you will have a hard time tracking how many emails to send each day.

If you send your cold emails with Emailchaser, then you can connect your Gmail or Outlook account, and then upload your leads, and let Emailchaser send your cold emails without you needing to manually click send for each email.

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Final thoughts

I recommend that you gradually increase your cold email sending volume as described below:

Week 1: 5 emails per day per email address.

Week 2: 10 emails per day per email address.

Week 3: 15 emails per day per email address.

Week 4: 20 emails per day per email address.

Week 5: 25 emails per day per email address.

Week 6: 30 emails per day per email address.

Week 7: 35 emails per day per email address.

Week 8: 40 emails per day per email address.

If you follow the above schedule, then your cold emails are more likely to land in the primary inbox (not spam).

I recommend that you send your cold emails with Emailchaser as it does the above automatically. It also has many other features that are designed to make your cold emails avoid spam.

You can read my article How Many Cold Emails Can You Send Per Day Before Going To Spam to learn why I recommend that you only send 40 cold emails per day (per email address).

Also, read my other article How To Safely Scale Up Your Cold Email Outreach to learn how you can send more than 40 cold emails per day by buying additional domains.