yo yo just spent a decent bit of cash trying out some cold email templates i found online and tbh it was a total waste. sent like 50 messages this week with these "proven" scripts and got nothing back, zero. weird part is the templates looked good, seemed personalized and casual but the response rate is garbage right now. checked opens, clicks, messed with subject lines - still dead silence. feels like everyone just ignores outreach now or im completely messing up. maybe its my niche, maybe my list is bad, maybe the templates are just weak? id love to see actual data on what's working recently or if anyone else is hitting this wall. starting to think cold outreach is dead unless you have huge money for ads or already insane connections