US Sales Desk

We email US buyers. They write back.

We find the right people at US companies and email each one individually. Every reply is worked by our team until it becomes an order or a clear no.

Chris Wu · anvol.devTue 9:12 AM PT

Hi Dana — noticed your new 24V DC drive line. A factory we work with in Shenzhen builds similar motor controllers for a US distributor, 20-day samples. Want the spec sheet and price range?

Dana M. · buyerTue 2:40 PM ET

Interesting. Send the spec sheet, and what's MOQ and lead time at 500 units?

Chris Wu · anvol.devTue 3:05 PM ET

Spec sheet attached. 500 is fine, 35 days after sample approval. Free Thursday for 15 minutes on certification requirements?

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Case 01

850 emails. 14.7% reply rate. Our own campaign.

We ran the first Sales Desk campaign for Anvol's own hardware-engineering line — outbound to American hardware makers and small electronics sellers, Aug–Sep 2026. One email per company.

Reply rate counts every human reply — including "not interested" and "not now" — not just positive responses.

850
Emails sent
14.7%
Reply rate
1.3%
Hard bounce
Platform average
3.4%
Typical B2B
5–9%
Considered excellent
10–15%
US Sales Desk
14.7%

Cold-email platform average is 3.4%; typical B2B is 5–9%. At 14.7%, we're roughly 4× the baseline.

Most programs target under 2% bounce. We landed at 1.3%.

Process

How it works

Step 01

Find your buyers

From your product line, we build a list of matching US companies and the right person's verified email. Hundreds to thousands of targets — far beyond the cards you collected at the show.

Step 02

One email per company

Every email is written from that company's own website — what they sell, what they build. Not a template. Each one is reviewed before sending.

Step 03

Send from US mailboxes

Sent from real-person US mailboxes, warmed up over weeks, rotated across domains. We only send to verified individual contacts — never role addresses like sales@ or info@.

Step 04

Work every reply

Replies land in our inbox. We triage, answer questions, send your quotes and samples, and follow up in US business hours — until it's an order or a clear no. The founder reads every reply.

Channels

Why not the channels you already tried

You've probably spent money on most of these — here's where each one breaks down.

×Alibaba

Membership runs 30–90k RMB per year, plus pay-per-click on top. Factory owners say the same thing: inquiries are small, scattered, and too many are competitors fishing for your prices.

×Trade shows

Two days, hundreds of cards, then nobody follows up. "Couldn't even handle all the visitors" is the standard story — and three months later the cards are cold.

×Chinese AI email tools

159 RMB a month, 300 emails, zero replies. Template English: "Dear Sir, we are a professional manufacturer." Gmail accounts get banned. Everything lands in spam.

×LinkedIn / WhatsApp

LinkedIn caps how many people you can reach per week. Cold WhatsApp reads as spam to US buyers — most won't even open it.

Why email works

Email is how US B2B buyers actually evaluate new suppliers. But it only works if it reaches the inbox, reads like a person wrote it, and gets a fast, competent reply in their time zone.

Infrastructure

Under the hood

Every component exists because a shortcut we tried earlier broke something.

01

Mailbox pool

111 mailboxes across 5 sending domains, hosted on established providers — we ride their IP reputation, not a self-hosted server. Every address is a real-name variant of the founder (chris@, chris.wu@). No fake employees.

02

Authentication & self-check

SPF, DKIM, DMARC on every domain — nothing sends until all pass. Each mailbox runs an SMTP+IMAP probe with a unique token before entering rotation; if it can't read its own bounces, it's excluded.

03

Warm-up & volume ladder

Mailboxes email each other, reply, and rescue messages from junk; volume ramps daily. Sending follows a 3 → 8 → 15/day ladder — each step requires <2% bounce and zero complaints. Hard ceiling 15/day per box; complaint red line 0.3%.

04

Reputation protection

Load spread across domains so no single domain carries all the risk — lesson from an early single-domain run that hit 3–4.7% bounce. Rolling 14-day bounce gate halts sending above 2%. Suppression list enforced on every send.

05

Recipient discovery & rules

Targets from a web crawl of the segment, verified through MX lookup and email verification services. Individual contacts only — role addresses (sales@, info@) excluded; they bounced ~10× more in our data.

06

Writing & reply handling

A frontier language model drafts one email per company from its website. A QA gate checks facts and banned phrases before queuing. Replies thread in one conversation, auto-classified, then answered by a person in US hours. Founder reads all.

Plan

How we charge

Pricing is results-based — no price list on this page. A first call covers your product line, target segments, and what a realistic first campaign looks like.

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FAQ

Questions we get before the first call

Something not covered? Ask us directly →

No. Emails go out from Anvol's own US mailboxes in the founder's real name, introducing your factory and products. Your domain stays untouched — no risk to your sender reputation.

Yes. US commercial email is governed by CAN-SPAM. We comply: real sender identity, real physical address, a working opt-out in every email, and suppression lists honored immediately.

Your product catalog, price ranges, MOQ, a list of your best current US customers so we know what a good fit looks like, and someone who can answer technical questions within a day.

List building takes one to two weeks. First replies typically arrive in the first sending week. But real conversations — quotes, samples, specs — take weeks to develop. Don't expect orders in month one.

Tell us about your product line

Tell us what you make and who your best US customers are today. We come back with what a realistic first campaign looks like. Chris reads and answers every message himself.

30-minute call
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Office
San Francisco, CA

Or email chris@anvol.dev, or book a 30-minute call.