Why Cold Email Is Dead (And What Verity Does Instead)

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Raphael Morgulis.

Head of Marketing · Verity

Raphaël Morgulis is a versatile marketing leader with a proven track record of building high-performing teams and driving revenue-generating B2B marketing strategies. As Head of Marketing at Verity, he focuses on category creation, brand development, content, and product marketing to support scalable growth and market leadership. He leads the transformation of Verity's marketing function from early stage, a 1-person marketing into a modern, data-driven, pipeline-focused growth engine.

Guest

Raphael Morgulis

Head of Marketing

Company:

Verity

Location:

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Funding:

$81M Raised

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In this episode of The Marketing Front Lines, we speak with Raphaël Morgulis, Head of Marketing at Verity. Verity has deployed autonomous drone systems across 150+ warehouse sites for clients including UPS, DSV, and Maersk, solving the critical challenge of real-time inventory accuracy in logistics operations. Raphael shares how Verity navigates B2B hardware marketing in the warehousing sector, from event-driven outreach strategies to the discipline required at early-stage companies. The conversation explores the fundamental tensions facing B2B marketers today: balancing tactical execution with strategic foundations, resisting channel proliferation pressure from leadership, and filtering signal from noise in an era of content explosion.

Topics Discussed

Marketing autonomous drone systems for warehouse inventory management
Event-driven cold outreach timing and mental availability
Trade show strategy in warehousing and logistics markets
Leveraging enterprise reference customers for credibility
The declining effectiveness of cold email outreach
Using customer site visits as conversion tools
Stage-appropriate marketing strategy from Series A to Series B

Six takeaways from this conversation.

Actionable for Supply chain tech marketers

Time Cold Outreach Around Mental Availability Windows
Verity structures cold outreach campaigns around industry events when prospects actively think about operational improvements. Rather than generic timing or superficial company signals, they target the week before major trade shows when warehouse managers and innovation leaders mentally prepare for discovering new solutions. This approach recognizes that inbox availability correlates directly with purchase cycle readiness—Monday morning leadership meetings leave zero mental bandwidth for vendor discovery, but pre-event research periods create natural openings.
Anchor Early-Stage Marketing in Ruthless ICP Clarity
At Series A, Verity's approach prioritizes deep customer psychology over channel proliferation. Raphael emphasizes that marketers must function as "customer psychologists," understanding buyer fears and deeper motives through direct research conversations—not just documentation exercises. This foundation enables confident channel selection and provides the infrastructure needed when scaling demands shift the marketer role from psychologist to systems engineer at Series B. Testing six channels simultaneously without this foundation creates noise without learnable signals, undermining future attribution and scale efforts.
Leverage Enterprise Logos as Live Conversion Environments
With deployments at UPS, DSV, and Maersk, Verity transforms reference customers into immersive proof environments. Rather than relying solely on case studies or testimonials, they physically bring prospects to operational warehouse sites where they observe autonomous drone systems in action and speak directly with operations teams experiencing the benefits. This approach moves beyond innovation theater to tangible ROI demonstration, particularly critical for hardware solutions where seeing becomes believing.
Engineer Trade Show Strategy by Buyer Stage
Verity segments its trade show presence based on distinct buyer roles within the warehousing sector. Innovation-focused events connect with leaders exploring robotics and operational improvement solutions, while operationally-oriented shows reach warehouse managers responsible for day-to-day logistics execution. This segmentation ensures message-market fit and efficient resource allocation across the lengthy enterprise sales cycle typical in warehouse automation.
Resist Channel Expansion Pressure Through Disciplined Focus
Raphael identifies a critical leadership challenge for early-stage marketers: pushing back against investors, executives, and market noise demanding presence across PR, LinkedIn, paid media, and additional channels simultaneously. Without marketing operations infrastructure, data models, or attribution systems, multi-channel testing at Series A produces indecipherable results. The discipline to validate two or three channels before expansion requires both technical judgment and executive confidence—a rare combination that determines whether growth scales on solid or unstable foundations.
Filter Best Practices Through Stage-Appropriate Context
The explosion of marketing content in 2025—from AI implementation frameworks to pipeline generation tactics—rarely includes critical context about company stage, team size, or budget scale. A Series D CMO's 20-person team executing sophisticated HubSpot-Claude integrations provides zero actionable blueprint for solo marketers at Series A companies. Raphael advocates for brutal honesty about current stage and capabilities, using that clarity to filter which best practices apply versus which create dangerous distraction.

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