Pay-Per-Call Cold Email Agency
Performance-based cold email and LinkedIn lead generation (monthly tech fee plus pay per booked call)
Video published Oct 29, 2026 by Daniel Fazio
Startup cost: Low to moderate startup cost (domains, inboxes, lead data and a sending tool for your own outreach; client campaigns are covered by their tech fee) (our estimate; the video doesn’t give figures)
Source video
Daniel Fazio · Starting From Zero: How I’d Build a $100k/mo AI Agency Today ↗
What It Is
You run outbound lead generation for B2B companies: buy secondary domains, set up two inboxes per domain, scrape lists of the client's ideal buyers, load them into a sequencer, write and test scripts, and handle replies until a sales call is booked. Instead of a retainer, the client pays a monthly 'tech fee' of about $500-$800 that covers those hard costs, and you earn a fee per qualified call booked or shown, roughly $200-$800 depending on the industry. You find clients the same way you'd serve them, with cold email, LinkedIn messages or hyper-personalized outreach, pointing to a one-page site with a headline stating the offer, a video sales letter of you explaining the system, and a calendar button. Once you have case studies, you raise prices, ask for retainers up front and add an application form to filter out small prospects.
The Pitch
The creator says a beginner with no case studies can't sell a $5,000-a-month retainer, but a low tech fee plus pay-per-result terms lowers the client's risk enough to get signed and build proof. He argues outreach is the only realistic lead source without money, since he puts B2B client acquisition through ads at around $3,000 per client. He recommends using AI to remove bottlenecks in fulfillment, such as automated reply handling and drafting new scripts from a database of past winning campaigns.
Who It’s Best For
A self-starter comfortable with technical setup, cold outreach and sales calls who will appear on video and can handle a long stretch of rejection.
The Truth (as we see it)
The structure (client covers costs, you earn per booked call) is a common and sensible way for a beginner agency to land first clients, and the explanation of cold email infrastructure is practical. The creator's own revenue figures and student results are unaudited, and he says himself that most people won't get those results. He co-runs ListKit, the cold email tool he recommends, and the video ends with pitches for his paid challenge and one-on-one coaching program. Pay-per-call only works if you can actually book calls, so expect thin or no profit until a campaign performs, plus the deliverability and compliance work that cold email requires.
Our assessment, based on the video and what’s typical across similar videos. We don’t independently verify income claims or prices.
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