GoSymterra (formerly Flockoff) · European bird control product company

They didn't know cold email could sell their product. Testing across verticals found a $500K channel hiding in plain sight.

No prior outbound experience. Almost all business came from referrals and paid ads. A month of vertical testing found buyers they'd never imagined they could reach.

8–10 LEADS / MONTH
qualified leads, steady state
Before: referrals and paid ads only, no outbound tried, cold email not considered a viable channel for a product this specific.
01
the blind spot

A channel they never tried, because it never occurred to them.

Referrals and paid ads brought in some business, but both have a ceiling, and neither was generating enough interested leads. The bigger issue: this client had never considered cold email as a way to sell at all. It wasn't on their radar as an option. That's a common blind spot for a business selling something specific or unusual. If nobody else in the space is doing outbound, it's easy to assume it won't work.

02
the search

Testing for the sweet spot, not guessing at it.

Rather than assume who the best buyers were, campaigns were planned and launched across several different verticals at once, specifically to find out which audiences actually responded.

01
Vertical mapping
Identified possible buyer categories the client hadn't considered
02
Parallel testing
Ran campaigns across multiple verticals to find real signal
03
Sweet spot found
Located buyer types and locations outside their assumed market
04
Lead handoff
Interested leads passed directly to the client as they came in
05
Handoff
Trained their in-house person to run the channel going forward
03
pressure test

1 month to build. 2 to find the sweet spot.

1 mo
to build
2 mo
to find the sweet spot
1+ yr
running steady
04
output

What the channel produces today

8–10
qualified leads per month
~$500K+
estimated revenue since launch
1+ year
running without a rebuild
New
markets they hadn't imagined they could reach
05
stack

What it runs on

ApolloInstantly

Sometimes the win isn't optimizing a channel you already have. It's proving a channel you didn't know existed. If you've assumed cold outreach wouldn't work for something as specific as what you sell, that assumption is usually the thing worth testing first.

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