New to cold emailing, or want to sharpen your approach? Here's where to start.
Learn the fundamentals
Hunter's Cold Email Guide — a free, continuously updated guide covering everything from technical setup to writing best practices. The best starting point whether you're new or experienced.
Hunter's Blog — ongoing articles on cold email strategy, deliverability, and industry trends.
State of Cold Email Report — Hunter's annual benchmark data (based on 31M+ emails sent by Hunter users), covering average open/reply/bounce rates, what recipients actually respond to, and how outreach is shifting year over year.
Write faster and smarter
How to: Create a sequence in Hunter— a quick-start, step-by-step guide to setting up your first sequence in Hunter, start to finish.
AI Writing Assistant — generates a unique, personalized version of each email (including follow-ups) right inside your sequence.
Cold email templates — hundreds of free, best-performing templates by use case (sales, recruiting, networking, follow-ups). Save any of them to your Templates section for reuse.
Protect your deliverability
Before you scale up sending, it's worth getting these right:
Set up a dedicated cold email domain to keep your main inbox protected.
Manually warm up your email account or use Inbox Protection for automatic warm up, before sending at volume.
Diagnose a low open rate if your numbers seem off and review your sender health.
Still stuck? Reach out at contact@hunter.io or start a live chat on our website.