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The allbound system overview
0:00I'm currently generating over 160
0:02meetings per week for my company. And
0:04we're doing it without a single SDR
0:06picking up the phone without a massive
0:08ad budget and without blasting thousands
0:10of generic cold emails. Instead, I use
0:12AI to build what I call an allbound
0:15system where inbound and outbound aren't
0:17separate channels anymore. They feed
0:19into each other through AI agents,
0:21social signals, and automated workflows
0:23that run around the clock. And the best
0:25part is you don't need a big team or
0:28expensive enterprise tools to do this.
0:29In this video, I'm going to walk through
0:31this exact system and how I use it step
0:33by step and show you how to copy it.
0:35Let's dive in. I want to explain why we
Why static lists are dead
0:38moved away from the traditional approach
0:40because it sets up everything else in
0:42this video. And if you're pulling static
0:43lists based on job title, location,
0:45revenue from tools like Apollo or Zoom
0:47Info, you're using the same data as
0:49everyone else. Your prospects are
0:51getting hammered by dozens of companies
0:52running the same playbook. And now email
0:55providers are using AI to filter out
0:57anything that reads like a sales pitch
0:59before it even hits the inbox. So
1:02instead of reaching out to people
1:03because they match a filter, we reach
1:05out because they just did something that
1:08shows they might actually care. That
1:10could be engaging with competitors
1:11content, talking about a problem we
1:13solve, or hiring for a role that signals
1:15they need what we offer. One signal like
1:18that is worth more than a,000 emails to
1:21people who have no reason to talk to
1:22you. That shift is what allowed us to
1:24build a system where three people
1:26generate over 160 meetings a week. So
1:28let me show you how exactly I built the
The shift to signal-based prospecting
1:30allbound framework. Now before I dive
1:32into these layers, here's a quick look
1:34at how the whole system connects. We
1:36have three core functions running this.
1:38First is the master list builder. This
1:40is your growth or revenue operations
1:42person responsible for building
1:43evergreen lists. That's key, evergreen
1:45lists using mainly social listening.
1:47They're not doing manual prospecting.
1:49They're setting up automated
1:50signal-based searches that run
1:52continuously. Second, the account
1:54executive or AE, which in this case is
1:56me. I'm closing deals and self-sourcing
1:58warm leads that the system feeds to me.
2:00Third is an SDR I built using NA10. It
2:03handles replying to inbound traffic,
2:05nurturing leads, and booking in warmer
2:07prospects coming into our site. Then we
2:09have a content generator who acts as a
2:11ghostriter for the entire team, taking
2:13real themes from our sales calls and
2:15turning them into posts. I'll explain
2:18exactly how that content loop works
2:19later in the video. So, let's get
2:21started and walk through each layer,
2:23starting with the one that makes
2:24everything else possible, and that is
2:26the signalbased prospecting. Everything
2:28starts with how you build your list. And
2:31this is where Triggery, which is my own
2:33tool that I developed, sits at the
2:35center of this entire operation. So,
2:37let's dive in. Inside Triggery, we have
2:39two main features powering this. Social
2:41listening and social engagement via our
2:43workflow feature. I'm going to walk you
2:45through how we can set up a boolean
2:47search to monitor anyone talking about a
2:49specific topic across something like
2:52LinkedIn for example, but we have
2:53multiple other social sites like Reddit,
2:55YouTube, podcasts, threads, Instagram
2:58and so on. So for example, with my use
3:00case here, what I'm searching for is I
3:02want to search for anyone who is talking
3:03about something that has high level of
3:06intent for me on LinkedIn. So I'm going
3:08to search for something where it's
3:09related to signals. And then inside of
How the allbound framework fits together
3:12here, I'm going to have social or sales
3:15or marketing, right? And so what this is
3:18now going to search for is it's
3:19searching for anyone who is talking
3:21about signals and social or sales or
3:23marketing basically. And we can start to
3:25use it to find very specific people
3:27talking about very specific things. Now,
3:30if you feel like it's a little bit
3:31generic, I could get rid of certain
3:33keywords, for example, or I can make it
3:35a little bit more specific. So if
3:37signals is maybe coming back and being a
3:39relevant content, I can narrow all of
3:42that down. So now whenever someone posts
3:44about these topics or engages with
3:46content around them, they flow into a
3:48system automatically where I then go
3:50ahead and capture that engagement. So
3:53one of the popular one that I do is I
3:55track for any intent subjects. I also
3:58monitor specific profiles that I upload
4:00and tier. So these are competitors,
4:02these are thought leaders that are
4:03tracking specific things and they are
4:06obviously my own brand. Now once they
4:08post, they basically filter through into
4:12what I have as this workflow set up
4:14which is capturing all of that
4:16engagement. So here I'm monitoring for
4:18three different competitors and the
4:20intentbased search that I obviously just
4:21set up and my own brand. When one of
4:23these posts comes in, I go ahead and I
4:26grab all of the engagement that these
4:28individuals are getting. I enrich that
4:30information. I verify that they're ICP
4:33before I can go ahead and do things like
4:34send it through to Clay or I could send
The master list builder and evergreen targeting
4:36it through to tools like Hey Reach or
4:38Instantly or Smart Lead or whatever pill
4:40is your poison there when it comes to
4:41your outreach. Now, I tend to group
4:43these people that I'm tracking into what
4:45we call like groups. So, for example,
4:46like one is for competitors, one is for
4:49my own brand, and one is for thought
4:50leaders. And then each different group
4:52will have a different strategy, a
4:54different campaign associated with it.
4:56every like, every comment, every person
4:58touching this content that I'm searching
5:00for gets captured. Now, if they match
5:02our ICP criteria, which you can see that
5:04we have inside of this node, we find
5:06their email addresses and then, as I
5:07say, we automatically add them to a
5:10outreach system. This is so much more
5:12effective than a static list. For
5:14example, if someone has been liking
5:15content about cold email infrastructure
5:1710 times in the last month and I email
5:19them saying, "Hey, I can help you land
5:20in the inbox." They're far more likely
5:22to respond. That's not personalization
5:25for the sake of personalization. It's
5:27person level relevance based on what
5:29they actually care about. Right now, my
5:32campaigns using social signals typically
5:34get a one in4 positive reply rate, which
5:36is dramatically higher than anything
5:38that I've done personally and anything
5:39that I've seen from a cold static list.
5:42On top of this, I use a strategy called
5:44social warming, which makes this even
5:46more powerful. So, what is social
5:48warming? Well, the idea is simple. you
5:51monitor key thought leaders in your ICP.
5:54So, for example, in this social
5:56listening that we're looking at here, um
5:58you'll notice that I've got a load of
5:59different profiles that I'm basically
6:01set up and monitoring within here. You
6:03can see people like KL Coleman, Sam
6:05Jacobs. These are all influential
6:07marketing individuals. Now, anytime that
6:09they post about something relevant, I
6:12have a workflow set up. It uses an agent
6:14inside of our workflow system that
6:16classifies whether that post is relevant
6:18to what my business does. If it is, then
Using Trigify for social listening and workflows
6:20I'm going to go ahead and collect all of
6:22that engagement. Now, at the same time,
6:24I'm going to go and get notified via
6:26Slack the moment they post. And the
6:29reason that I'm going to do this is I'm
6:30going to drop some value into that
6:32comment. Now, my prospects that I want
6:34to reach out to, they're obviously going
6:36to start engaging with this content.
6:38They're going to see my post within that
6:41comment section typically because I'll
6:43be the first to comment there. So that
6:44means once I collect all of this
6:46engagement, all the likes and comments,
6:47the chances are they would have seen my
6:49name in some shape or form, either
6:51through the notification system or just
6:53as they go on to that post and they like
6:54it. So when it comes to me reaching out
6:56via the inbox, whether that is through
6:58email or even potentially LinkedIn, my
7:01name is a little bit more familiar to
7:03them, right? They understand, they know
7:05who I am because they probably seen them
7:07and they've seen my name maybe five to
7:0910 times before I reach out. So, your
7:12DMs stop being cold and your emails stop
7:14being ignored. Now, before I explain how
7:17I actually reach out to these people, if
7:18you want to start building signalbased
7:20lists and running social warming just
7:22like I showed you, head over to the
7:23triggery site and sign up. Link is in
7:25the description. It's totally free to do
7:28so. Now, back to the video. Cold email
7:30infrastructure. So, now you have high
7:32intent leads flowing in. The next
7:34question is how you actually reach them
7:36without landing in spam. We mainly rely
7:39on cold email and for that we use
7:41instantly um but we're also actually
7:43experimenting with a new tool called
7:45plus vibes. So here's an example of a
7:47campaign we're running. Okay. So in this
7:50campaign we have a two-step process. I
7:53typically only ever do two steps and we
7:56always lead with value. So in this case
8:00you'll see on LinkedIn and Twitter and
8:02all these other places lead magnets are
8:03incredibly popular. We actually take
8:05that philosophy and dial it through into
8:08our cold email campaigns. So in this
8:10case, we have a system set up where
8:12people are engaging with content around
8:15LinkedIn um content building. They're
8:17engaging with content around like
8:19LinkedIn automation tools. So again,
8:20it's really really relevant because
8:22these people will have a direct interest
8:25in understanding how they could get a
8:2730% reply rate through their LinkedIn
8:29campaigns and engagement data, right?
8:30And so we turn this interest into a lead
8:33magnet and say, "Hey, do you want me to
Social warming and lead engagement
8:35send across this lead magnet that I have
8:36which has a bunch of CTAs like wrapped
8:38inside of that lead magnet itself, which
8:40will start to act as a lead gen driver."
8:43So we go quite soft with this approach
8:45and this is what gets us a really really
8:48good success as a result. Now when it
8:51comes to infrastructure, we tend to use
8:54uh multiple different tools. Um, one of
8:56the popular ones that we've recently
8:57started using is Mail Doso to spin up
8:59inboxes across Google Workspace and
9:01custom SMTP. Now, the reason I chose
9:03Mail Doso is they have an official
9:05partnership with Google, so they aren't
9:07shady accounts. At any time we're
9:08running 50 to 100 inboxes. The sending
9:11rules are conservative by design and
9:14that's exactly why, in my opinion, they
9:17work. So, first things first with
9:19emails, we only send as plain text. No
9:22HTML at all. We remove all links
9:25associated in at least that first email
9:28as well. And personalization, I'm
9:30actually anti-personalization a lot of
9:32the time because as long as you're
9:33reaching out with relevance, that is
9:35enough personalization for what you need
9:37from a limitation on the amount of
9:39emails that we're sending per day. We
9:41limit it down to 20 per inbox per
9:44domain. Again, that's really, really
9:47aggressive with the limitation, but it
9:48works by design. We don't have to rotate
9:51the inboxes all the time and it keeps
9:53our cost on email infrastructure down.
9:55Now, you'll also notice that we've
9:56disabled open tracking. It uses pixels
9:59that hurt deliverability. So, we've
10:00turned it off entirely. I know this
10:02sounds boring and that's the point. If
Cold email infrastructure and deliverability
10:05you get it right, if you get the basics
10:06right, you don't need hacks and every
10:09email gets validated before it goes out.
10:12This step is nonnegotiable. We actually
10:15use lead magic for enrichment and
10:17validation. Let me actually show you the
10:19clay table uh that we have running on
10:21one of these campaigns. Okay, so here we
10:23have a clay table. This is all of my
10:25engagement. You can see there's about uh
10:27just over 8,000 records coming in here.
10:29Everything comes in through uh from a
10:31lead magic perspective. We validate it
10:33through lead magic as well. We always
10:36use um bounce banan as well as a an
10:38additional verification um process. Um
10:41we don't run massive waterfall
10:43approaches or anything like that.
10:44Typically we keep it uh predominantly to
10:46lead magnet and prosp as you can or
10:48prosper as you can see there. Bad emails
10:50equals burn domains and if you can't run
10:53successful campa well you literally
10:54can't run a successful campaign with
10:55burn domain. So got to get the email
10:57infrastructure right otherwise
10:58everything else that you're doing is
11:00kind of mute. Now onto layer three. This
11:03is the content loop and I think probably
11:05one of the coolest parts. Now here is
11:07where the system starts feeding itself
11:09and this is where it turns a one-time
11:11campaign into an evergreen machine. For
11:14people who don't know, evergreen
11:15basically just means it's continuously
11:17running. Once you set it up, away it
11:19goes. Most people treat content and
11:21sales as completely separate. We connect
11:23them into a loop where each one feeds
11:26the other. And it starts to make
11:28everything better. The more sales calls
11:30we do, the better our content strategy
11:32gets, the better our outbound gets, and
11:34so on and so on. So for us, it all
11:36starts with the demos. Here we actually
11:39use a tool called Fireflies. Every demo
11:42the team makes is automatically
11:44transcribed through Fireflies and then
11:47hooked up to G sheets which in turn that
11:49Gsheets is then hooked up to anything
11:51that we use claudes anthropic whatever
11:53it is. So as you can see once a meeting
11:56takes place we go ahead we grab the
11:59transcript and then we add it into uh a
12:02G sheets. Now we're automatically
12:03storing all this information for you
12:06know knowledge repositories and so on
12:07and so on. You can use an MCP and
12:10connect straight into Fireflies as well.
12:11I just like having all of this data
12:13stored in a local spot basically for me.
12:17So for each call, we pull every single
12:19question that's being asked and we store
12:21them obviously inside of the G sheet. AI
12:24then analyzes these questions and
12:25converts them into content themes based
12:28on the FAQs our prospects are typically
12:31asking. Now, this solves the biggest
12:33problem every founder and sales team has
12:35with content, which is not knowing what
12:38to post and that kind of fear of just
12:40sitting there working out what will do
12:43well. Instead of staring at a blank page
12:44or posting corporate nonsense, which is
The content loop from sales calls
12:47just garage that nobody ever engages
12:49with, every post is based on a real
12:51question a real prospect has actually
12:53asked in a real conversation. Our
12:55content generator then takes these
12:57themes and turns them into four posts a
12:59week, which gets spreads evenly across
13:01the team. Everyone at Triggery is tasked
13:03with posting two to three times per
13:05week. And here's where the loop closes.
13:07All of the engagement from these
13:09individuals that are posting in my team
13:11is then tracked through Triggery. The
13:13engagement is then collected. If we head
13:16back to here and have a look, our
13:17engagement is then collected through
13:20this system that we basically built
13:22inside of Triggerfy. Yeah. All the
13:23engagements from this content from my
13:25team gets tracked right back through
13:27triggery. So every like, every comment
13:30that they get from the content which we
13:32got from the calls that they were doing
13:34then gets enriched, then gets qualified
13:36and if they match our ICP, they're added
13:39automatically to our CRM which we use as
13:41these leads then get turned into demos.
13:45Those demos generate more content themes
13:48and the cycle keeps going. On top of
13:50that, this content gets syndicated into
13:53blog posts through another agent I built
13:55inside of NA10. So, this then runs, it
13:57basically researches all of the FAQs, as
14:00you can see here. It looks all of this
14:02information up inside of the the G
14:03sheets. It then works out what blog
14:06content it should be doing, newsletter
14:07content it should basically be doing. It
14:09then feeds it through to this research
14:10agent which runs research on the
14:12questions that were asked. It obviously
14:14has access to the triggery knowledge
14:16repository and then it turns it into an
14:18actual blog and a newsletter which I
14:20post on my Substack. Uh and then
14:23obviously the newsletter the blogs go
14:24onto our website. This process has meant
14:26that we've been started to be mentioned
14:28in things like Claude in OpenAI when
14:29people are searching for it. It's
14:31massively helped our SEO as a result as
14:34well. Every single thing that we're
14:36doing has an impact on everything else
14:38that we're doing. One demo conversation
14:41can fuel a full week's worth of content
14:43across multiple channels. So, on to the
14:46last layer. Layer four, capturing and
14:48recirculating leads. The last piece is
14:51making sure that you're not leaking
14:52leads anywhere in the system. All of our
14:54outbound content is driving people to
Recirculating leads across channels
14:57our socials and website. And if you're
14:59not capturing that traffic, it's wasted
15:01on the website. You can use tools like
15:04RB2B or Vector to identify visitors at a
15:08person level. On LinkedIn, we use
15:10Triggerify to capture things like
15:11profile views, obviously engagements,
15:14which I've talen a lot about. So, if
15:15someone checks out my LinkedIn or checks
15:17out my website after seeing one of my
15:19posts or receiving an email, we know
15:22about it. Both of these signals are then
15:24fed back to instantly via a subsequence.
15:28these leads then gets added to our
15:30triggerly flow and can be cooled by our
15:33team and the loop keeps going. So
15:35someone who visited our website after
15:37seeing a cold email now gets a follow-up
15:39that feels warm because it is they've
15:41already shown interest. This
15:42recirculation is what gives us more
15:44meetings than we can handle with only
15:46three people. Every channel reinforces
15:49the next channel. Outbound drives
15:50attention. Content builds trust.
15:52Engagement creates signals. And the
15:54signals feedback into an outbound. the
15:56AI agents tying it all together running
15:58these systems you need a team of 10 to
16:0115 people the reason we do it with three
16:04is because of AI agents I built using
16:06NA10 claw code open claw and so on first
16:10is the AI SDR so when someone comes onto
16:13our site or responds to an email the AI
16:15SDR handles the initial conversation and
16:18it books warm leads directly into our
AI SDR, call prep agent, and content generator
16:20calendar and as you can see here it's
16:22doing a lot of different things through
16:25the different inputs that it comes in
16:26via the web hooks, right? And that's
16:28coming in from the website and so on. It
16:30handles all of the crossorrelation with
16:32communication. It updates everything.
16:34And yeah, really the idea of this is
16:36basically to get meetings just landing
16:37in our inbox. So the next is what we
16:40have I call like my master chief. This
16:43is my AI sales call prep agent. So let
16:45me show you this here. Master Chief call
16:47research. inside of here. This basically
16:51anytime I have a calendar or a meeting
16:54which is booked through that AISDR, they
16:56then basically go and look up the
16:58individual, they analyze, they're like a
17:00business analyst, they're a website
17:02analyst and they also generate a
17:03triggery uh use case to then add it to
17:06my ATIO and obviously a Slack
17:08notification. I effectively get this
17:10full brief on how and why they should be
17:13using triggery, who they are, and why
17:15that they probably have generated
17:17interest. uh with us. So every 15
17:19minutes, this workflow pulls my calendar
17:20for upcoming meetings and then Master
17:22Chief deploys these sub agents to run.
17:25Now the key thing with this is you'll
17:27notice that I'm updating systems of
17:29record throughout the journey with all
17:31of these different workflows and agents
17:33that I've built. Typically like my
17:34systems of records are either local repo
17:36files that I have or a CRM or maybe
17:39something like Superbase or whatever it
17:40is. In this instance, it's atio. So
17:43we're adding notes to these records. The
17:45reason that we're doing that is we don't
17:47want research to run twice. I only ever
17:49want it to run once. No wasted API
17:52calls, no wasted token spend um that I'm
17:56basically doing. Before this, I was
17:59showing up to 50K deals completely
18:01unprepared because my calendar looks
18:03like Tetris. Now I walk into every call
18:06knowing exactly more about the business
18:08than maybe even they do as well. Third
18:10is an AI content generation agent. As we
18:13can see here inside of the Triggery
18:15platform, I have a completely built
18:17workflow system that is using social
18:19data to generate ideas for me. I set up
18:22a Triggery to monitor social listening
18:24keywords, and whenever something trends
18:26in our industry, the system picks it up
18:28every morning at 9:00 a.m. I then get a
18:31Slack notification with three content
18:33ideas ready to go. This keeps us
Final takeaway
18:35consistently up to date without spending
18:38hours thinking of content ideas. on top
18:40of the fact that we're generating
18:42content with our sales calls as well.
18:45So, there's no excuse for my team not to
18:47be generating content. And obviously, as
18:49I've explained, the more content we
18:51generated, the more this whole flywheel
18:53begins. So, if you want to start
18:55building like this kind of system for
18:56yourself, the first step is getting
18:58across to the social signal data that
19:01makes it all work. To do that, click the
19:03first link in the description, head over
19:05to Triggery, and sign up. You can start
19:07tracking engagement, monitoring Thor
19:09leaders, and building signalbased lists
19:12right away. Again, the link is in the
19:14description, so go click on that. And if
19:15you want to learn more about how to use
19:17AI for marketing, then watch this video
19:20next.