Field notes from cadences we actually ran

Sequencing, spacing and stop conditions, measured on live client campaigns rather than drawn for one prospect and published as a plan.

Cadence

Email and LinkedIn Sequence Structure: Which Goes First

In a multichannel sequence, the opening channel should be the one with enough capacity to touch your whole list inside your sequence window, and the second channel should escalate onto the prospects who showed a...

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Cadence

Touch Timing and Spacing in Outbound Sequences

Outbound touch spacing should tighten early and widen late: the first follow up within a few days of the opener, later touches a week or more apart. The gap matters less than whether the touch has a genuine new...

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Cadence

Cross Channel Reply Handling in Outbound Sequences

Cross channel reply handling is the mechanism that removes a prospect from every remaining touch on every channel the moment they reply on any one of them. It requires a shared suppression state keyed to a canonical...

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Cadence

Channel Attribution Inside a Multichannel Sequence

In sequence attribution can tell you which channel a reply arrived on, how many touches preceded it and which sequence the prospect was in. It cannot tell you which touch caused the reply, because there is no join...

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Cadence

How Long Should a Cold Outreach Sequence Be?

A cold outreach sequence should be exactly as long as the number of genuinely distinct reasons you have to contact the prospect, plus one same thread bump. For most B2B offers that is four to six touches, and the...

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Guides

Sequence Capacity Planning: Coverage and Intake

Sequence capacity planning is working out, before you design a single touch, how many prospects your channels can actually carry inside your window. Two numbers decide it. The coverage window is your prospect count...

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Guides

LinkedIn vs Email for Cold Outreach: The Arithmetic

LinkedIn returns more per touch and email delivers far more touches, so the useful comparison is not which channel is better but what each touch costs and returns. On one client programme in professional services we...

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Benchmarks

Multichannel Lift: 0.37% Positive on 8,714 Sends

Multichannel lift is the difference in outcome between an outbound sequence run on one channel and the same motion run across two. In the Outbound Pros fleet snapshot dated 2026-07-06, sequences tagged as a...

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When-to-hire

When to Hand Your Cadence to an Agency, and When Not

Disclosure before anything else: I own Outbound Pros, I also operate this site, and MultichannelPros is part of the Outbound Pros group. This is not an independent review. It is my own recommendation of my own...

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Results

MultichannelPros Results and Methodology

In the Outbound Pros fleet snapshot dated 2026-07-06, sequences tagged as a multichannel motion produced a 0.37% positive reply rate across 8,714 emails sent, 7.36x the fleet baseline for that snapshot. The follower...

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