The Inbox Nanny blog

Field notes from inside the cold-pitch machine.

Research, math, and occasional rants about how B2B sales databases work - written by a marketer who used to be on the other side.

Research·May 22, 2026·6 min read

Cold Emails Are Costing You 47 Minutes a Week (Here's the Math)

An average professional spends 47 minutes per week sorting, reading, deleting, and recovering from cold emails. Here's the time audit and how to get it back.

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Research·May 22, 2026·9 min read

Does Opting Out of Apollo and ZoomInfo Actually Work? (Data from 4,200 Requests)

We tracked 4,200 removal requests sent to 15 B2B databases over 6 months. Here's the actual success rate, average response time, and re-listing rate for each.

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Research·May 22, 2026·8 min read

How Many Sales Databases Have Your Work Email? (We Checked 200 Inboxes)

We scanned 200 work inboxes across 15 B2B sales databases. The average professional is listed in 11 of them. Here's the data, by industry and seniority.

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