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55% -- share of meetings from initial email for B2B cold email sequences (2026)
The initial email in a cold email sequence accounts for 55% of total meetings booked.
- Based on Alchemail's internal client campaign data
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55%
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Data Vintage
2026
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B
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75
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60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Alchemail
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https://alchemail.io/blog/cold-email-faq ↗
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Cold Email FAQ: 30 Most Common Questions Answered
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Alchemail
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B2B cold email sequences: 55% share of meetings from initial email. Source: Alchemail (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/email1-meeting-share
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