Vectivo does conversion rate optimization for direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands. Its buyer is a DTC founder or operator, one of the hardest audiences to reach cold, because every agency in the category is already reaching for them.
Two months of cold email hit two problems at once. Low open rates meant deliverability was working against the campaign before the copy mattered, and founders who did reply wrote back to say they were tired of being pitched.
The cheapest test was a channel test. Moving to the phone could be tested in a day.