Fix Your Cold Outreach Reply Rates in 45 Minutes

Hosted by Victor Delcambre and Will Leatherman

Wed, Apr 22, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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Founder-Led Content: Turn Cold Buyers Into Warm Pipeline
Will Leatherman and Jacob Bank
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What you'll learn

Why automation kills your human outreach instinct

The exact moment reps stop writing like humans and start writing like templates and why that's when reply rates crash.

The "Would you reply to this?" gut-check framework

Victor's simple filter he applies to every message before scaling — the same one he uses with YC-backed founders.

Real before/after coaching examples from lemlist

Actual messages that weren't getting replies, what Victor changed, and why the revised version started converting.

Data-backed sequence rules you can apply today

Best practices distilled from thousands of coached campaigns — concrete rules for your next send, not theory.

Why this topic matters

Automation has become the default in B2B outreach — and reply rates are cratering. The problem isn't the tools. It's that most people skip the most important step: writing one message you'd actually reply to before scaling it. Victor Delcambre has coached hundreds of teams through this exact reset at lemlist. This session shows you how to apply it.

You'll learn from

Victor Delcambre

Head of Training, lemlist

Why trust me?

  • Head of Training at lemlist — the AI sales engagement platform used by 20,000 sales teams
  • Part of the lemcoach team — lemlist's 1:1 coaching program that helps users cut their learning curve and get replies
  • Helps sales teams at companies like Uber, Cloudflare, Zendesk, Indeed, and ElevenLabs get more replies from their outreach
  • Reviews thousands of real cold email and LinkedIn campaigns annually — he knows what dies in the inbox and why

Will Leatherman

Founder, Catalyst GTM Agency

Why trust me?

  • Has personally coached and advised 100+ B2B founders on go-to-market strategy and outreach
  • Built Catalyst's Lightning Lesson series, hosting 50+ live sessions on GTM execution
  • Created frameworks used by founders at Series A through pre-IPO companies
  • Obsessed with the gap between what works in theory and what actually gets replies

Previously at

AirOps
Relay.app
a16z
Instantly.ai

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