Nick Olivar / Sydney
You're not short
of candidates.
You're short of
job flow.
Client side outbound for boutique Australian recruitment agencies. I put hiring managers with live roles in front of your billers, and I only route meetings to desks that can actually work them. The mechanism and the price are both on this page, so you can make up your mind before you ever talk to me.
Pre-revenue. Two pilots at a time. AU$4,500 for the six weeks.
- Status
- Pre-revenue
- Client case studies
- 0
- Pilots open
- 2
- Guarantee
- None offered
Ask any other supplier for these four numbers before your second call with them.
01 / Who this is for
Boutique recruitment agencies. Australia.
I work one niche on purpose. The trigger list, the copy angles and the objections are all built around agencies that place into a defined vertical. Outside that, someone else will do better work than me.
Built for
- +11 to 50 people
- +Perm or contract desks in construction, infrastructure or healthcare. The verticals still hiring.
- +Brisbane, Perth, Sydney or Melbourne
- +A founder or director who still wins new clients personally
- +Spare desk capacity to work five extra client meetings a month
Not for
- −Global firms like Hays, Robert Half or Michael Page
- −Mining or aviation labour hire desks exposed to Same Job Same Pay
- −Anyone who wants candidates sourced. This is client side only.
- −Desks already at capacity. Warm meetings die there, and I would rather say no now than invoice you for it.
02 / The BD problem
Your industry
already knows.
0%
of agencies say they are completely happy with their current BD strategy
JobAdder agency benchmarking
0%
plan to spend more on BD this year anyway
JobAdder
0%
of cold calls connect now. It was 5% not long ago
OneUpSales, UK panel
In almost every boutique the owner is still the top biller. Every hour you spend closing is an hour nobody spends opening, and your consultants do delivery because delivery pays this month and BD pays in three. That gap is the entire reason this page exists.
03 / The mechanism
No case studies.
So here's the build.
Every agency shows you logos. I don't have any yet, so I'm showing you what the logos are meant to prove: nine steps, the tools by name, the exact settings. Click through it. If you've run outbound before, you'll know in thirty seconds whether this is real.
Step 01 / 09
Signal stack
Apify, Crunchbase, BuiltWith, Trigify
A live vacancy is the starting signal, scraped daily from Seek and LinkedIn Jobs rather than searched by hand. The sharpest list is the second one: roles reposted or still open after 45 days. That company is losing money every week and already doubts whoever they are currently using, so the objection about already having agencies is dead before you send a word.
- fresh
- vacancy posted in last 14 days
- stale
- role open or reposted 45 days+
- funding
- Crunchbase raise events
- tech change
- BuiltWith ATS and stack moves
- social
- Trigify hiring chatter
The two lines most agencies quietly skip
Catch-all domains
Standard verification marks them unknown and bins them, and in Australian B2B that is a large slice of your market discarded before a single send. Step 03 resolves them instead of throwing them away.
Signal stacking
One trigger is a guess. A live vacancy, plus a funding event, plus a change in their hiring stack is a reason to write. Step 01 runs four sources, not one job board.
04 / Who is actually running this
One person.
One industry.
One country.
Nick Olivar / Sydney
I have spent the last few years building cold email infrastructure. Domains, authentication, deliverability, sequencing, copy. Most of it for my own businesses.
This is the first time I have pointed all of it at one industry instead of taking whoever turned up.
I have never placed a candidate and I will not pretend to know your desk better than you do. What I know is why outbound lands or dies, and every part of it is published on this page.
French, based in Sydney, working Australian hours.
300
There are roughly 300 recruitment agencies in Australia that match the profile above. I know the number because I built the list myself. You are not row 40,000 in a database somebody bought.
What an offshore agency gets wrong here
- Seek, not Indeed
- The primary job board in Australia is Seek. A trigger list built on Indeed and LinkedIn alone misses most of the market you place into.
- Australian fee structures
- Perm placements here run 15 to 25 percent of first year salary. Messaging written against American contingency norms reads wrong to an Australian director in the first line.
- Labour hire licensing
- Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT license labour hire. New South Wales does not. If you run contract as well as perm, that changes who can legally be approached where.
- Sender reputation is regional
- Australian recipient domains, Australian sending patterns, and a local business hours send window. Volume pushed from a US clock at 3am AEST looks exactly like what it is.
- The same timezone as you
- Replies answered inside four business hours means four of your hours, not a queue that clears while you sleep.
- Spam Act 2003, done properly
- B2B cold email is legal in Australia under inferred consent, but ACMA has taken more than A$12 million in penalties over 18 months and names spam a current priority. Every send here runs on a documented consent basis, from separate domains, with a working opt out. Ask an offshore vendor to explain that sentence.
yourgtmpartner.com is run from Sydney. There is no offshore team behind this page.
05 / Run the numbers before you pay
The math,
with the formula shown.
Most agencies hide this because the honest numbers look small. Here they are anyway. The reply band is half a percent to one percent, which is what well built cold email into Australian B2B actually returns. Move the sliders to your own figures.
Qualified meetings / month
1 to 4
Placement fees / month
AU$4,400 to AU$17,600
What you pay me that month
AU$3,250 to AU$4,000
AU$3,000 base, plus AU$250 for every qualified meeting that shows up. Your most expensive month is covered by less than one placement.
The honest part
These bands come from what the channel returns generally. A weak vertical, a soft offer or a slow market can put you under the low end. Nothing on this page is guaranteed.
contacts × reply (0.5 to 1%) × positive (25 to 40%) × shows (60 to 75%) = meetings
meetings × close (20%) × fee = new fees banked
06 / The six weeks
Nothing launches
on day one.
Agencies that promise live campaigns in 72 hours are sending from cold domains. It works for a fortnight, then the domain is burnt and you're paying someone to clean it up.
- Week 1InfrastructureDomains bought, DNS authenticated, inboxes provisioned. Warmup starts on day one.
- Week 2TargetingVertical locked, trigger list built, contacts mapped and verified. Warmup keeps running.
- Week 3Copy and launchAngles written and spintaxed, first placement test, cold sending starts at low volume.
- Week 4RampVolume climbs by five a day per inbox. Reply data starts landing. First meetings get booked.
- Week 5IterateWeak angles get killed, the ones pulling replies get scaled. Placement retested per domain.
- Week 6ReadoutFull numbers: sent, delivered, replied, positive, booked. You decide whether it continues.
07 / Pricing
Published,
because hiding it
wastes your time.
Pilot / 6 weeks
AU$4,500
AU$3,000 a month. Half on signing, half at week three. Nothing locked in after.
- ·Three secondary domains bought, configured and authenticated
- ·Six to nine inboxes provisioned and warmed for 14 days
- ·Vertical research and a trigger list built on stacked signals
- ·Verification plus catch-all recovery on every contact before sending
- ·Copy written, spintaxed and placement tested
- ·A weekly EmailGuard report you can read yourself
- ·Every qualified meeting booked into your calendar
Retainer / per month
AU$3,000+ AU$250 per meeting
Only starts if the pilot actually produced meetings.
- ·Infrastructure maintained, monitored and rotated
- ·List rebuilt monthly on fresh vacancy signals
- ·Copy reworked on real reply data, not guesses
- ·AU$250 for each qualified meeting that shows up
- ·Meetings routed only to desks with capacity to work them
- ·Thirty days notice, no annual contract
Australian agencies charge AU$3,000 to AU$10,000 a month for this work, and AU$300 to AU$500 per ICP matched meeting. This sits at the floor of that band while the first case studies get built, and the maths is simple: one placement a quarter pays for the retainer on its own.
Prefer pure performance? After the pilot there is a per meeting only option: AU$450 per qualified meeting that shows, no base at all. It exists because you should not have to fund a promise you have not seen work.
A qualified meeting is one that shows up. If they don't turn up, you don't get invoiced for it.
The alternative you are actually weighing is a BDM hire: around A$110,000 a year fully loaded, a six month ramp, and a real chance it does not work out. This is AU$36,000 a year, fires in thirty days if it has to, and your billers never stop billing while it ramps.
08 / The questions you should ask
Including the
uncomfortable one.
We ARE a sales business. Why would we pay someone to do sales?+
Because your billers are closers, and closing is where they make you money. Top of funnel is a different job: list building, sending infrastructure, testing angles, eating rejection at volume. Right now that job belongs to whoever has a spare hour between roles, which is why it never happens consistently. You stay the closer. I feed the front of the desk.
My consultants won't follow up on the leads.+
That is the number one reason these engagements die, so it is handled structurally, not with good intentions. First, you only get in if a desk has capacity, and I ask that before taking your money. Second, I never hand over a list of leads. Meetings land in a named consultant's calendar with the company, the live role and the full thread, on their patch, in their vertical, with zero extra admin. Following up on a lead takes discipline. Turning up to a meeting already in your own calendar takes none.
You have no case studies. Why would I pay you?+
Because I'm not selling you results I haven't produced. I'm selling you a build, and the whole thing is on this page: nine steps, the tools by name, the exact settings. Australian agencies charge AU$3,000 to AU$10,000 a month for this work. This is priced at the floor of that band precisely because the case studies aren't built yet, and it moves up when they are. The two seats open now are the cheap ones.
The last vendor burned us.+
Common story, and usually the same one: offshore appointment setters, junk meetings, a long contract. So the exposure here is capped everywhere it can be. Six week pilot, half on signing and half at week three, no lock in, thirty days notice after, and you keep the domains, the data and the reports. If I'm bad at this, you find out in six weeks for less than one month of a typical agency retainer.
What reply rate should I expect?+
On well built cold email into Australian B2B, half a percent to one percent total replies is the honest band. Anyone quoting you eight percent is counting opens or making it up. What actually matters is positive replies and meetings that show up. The calculator on this page runs that whole chain so you can see the range before you spend anything.
Will this hurt my domain, or land us in Spam Act trouble?+
No on both. Cold sending never touches your primary domain: three separate domains get bought, pointed at your site, and used only for outbound. And every send runs on a documented inferred consent basis under the Spam Act, with a working opt out honoured same day. ACMA has taken more than twelve million dollars in penalties over the last eighteen months. This is built like that number exists, because it does.
Who runs the sales call?+
You do. I book qualified meetings into your calendar with the company, the role they posted and the full thread. I don't pitch your service and I don't close for you.
How do we know a meeting actually came from you?+
Every meeting traces back to a thread on my sending domains, and you can read that thread. If a client came in through your referral, an old relationship or your own consultant's spec call, it is not mine and it is not invoiced. Attribution disputes resolve in your favour. If I have to argue about whose meeting it was, the meeting was not clean enough to bill.
What if the pilot produces nothing?+
Then you keep three warmed domains, a verified list, tested copy and six weeks of real placement data, and you owe me nothing further. The retainer only starts if you want it to. I'd rather lose one pilot fee once than have you stuck in a twelve month contract you resent.
09 / Application
Four questions.
Then a calendar
link, or a no.
I run two pilots at a time because the warmup and the placement checks are manual. If you're outside the fit, this page will tell you before you spend thirty minutes on a call.
Not ready to apply
Send me your website and the vertical you place into, and I will record a five minute teardown of how I would build your outbound. Free, no call, and you keep it whether we end up working together or not. Put teardown in the agency field and send it through.
Prefer to read first? The Operator's Playbook.