I would like to try cold E-mailing for business so I am thinking about it. Your experience in using cold e-mailing can help me.
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It’s my biggest lead generator. I pay a third party company that provides CRM, pulls data for those likely to be good leads, sends the cold emails. Once I have a call to action answered from a cold email it goes into my pipeline and I work. For someone who has zero employees it’s super helpful for me to only spend time on warm leads. I do SEO, PPC and direct mailers as well. But cold emailing is the foundation.
I used the LinkedIn + cold email strategy when I first started. The key point is keep your emails as short as possible. Look up the 9 word email.
I am a headhunter and cold emailing was fantastic a year or 2 ago. Just like all the new tech/software (Monster, Career Builder, Indeed, Email marketing, AI/ChatGPT) in my industry it starts out strong and you can make a lot of money but once it hits the masses it stops being useful.
That being said we still have some luck in very narrow select markets using it.
Do you like getting spam emails?
I’m flagging it as spam and reporting you if you send more than 1
The “more than 1” is fair … I feel like a cold email is fine to see if there’s any interest, but putting someone on a nurture campaign without an opt-in is where it crosses the line into spam IMO.
Cold email is how I generate 90% of my pipeline.
You need to be incredibly targeted with your list and precise with your messaging
You also need the correct software to make sure it lands in the inbox
Happy to chat with you & give any advice you need
Would be grateful to hear more about it Sir!
I get lots of cold emails. Every. Single. One. Gets. Blocked.
And reported as spam so others on my network are insulated, too.
It’s at the core of what my company does with over €40 million pipeline delivered from it
Highly recommend, and happy to answer any questions
Do you do primarily cold emails or cold calls? What’s your sales process like? What’re you selling?
No coke calling - primary offer is email but we also do cold LinkedIn, LinkedIn ads and a few other things.
Sales process we get a lot of inbounds and referrals but from cold leads we go disco call to qualify then demo. Obviously the number of calls varies based on the size of the company and number of gatekeepers and decision makers. For example some would close on the first call and others will take months
We’re selling SaaS user acquisition services
I get so many from web developers, SEO experts, people who want to increase my sales. They immediately get blocked and markets as Spam.
They are like little mosquitos that never go away… don’t be a mosquito.
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David Lee! Business Development Executive
This doesn’t seem to phase the horrible offshore bad English versions I get of this 24 times a day
I ran a cold email campaign a while back for lead generation for attorneys… it succeeded in bringing in real leads, but failed in converting. The conversion was probably on us though, our pricing was ambitious and that was the feedback we got from almost everyone.
20+ leads responded back with “yes im interested” and maybe about 8 agreed to a zoom call, 5 showed up to the zoom call - two said they were still interested and asked for follow ups but then ghosted.
Im re-packaging the pricing to be a little more easy to digest and will be retrying again in Jan because overall I’d say it has a lot of potential.
Keep it up man! I used to do A LOT of cold emailing/cold calling and attorneys, realtors, and insurance agents were the hardest ones for me to land. BUT they were also the most profitable!
It’s a long shot but if you select your prospects well it might work. You also need to be lucky, send your message at a time a prospect needs your service or he’s unhappy with the current provider
If you do include an unsubscribe link. Can’t tell you how many cold emails I flag as spam that I would have been happy to just unsub to.
Great way to piss people off and set money on fire. Stop looking for scammy shortcuts.
How is emailing someone a scammy shortcut?
Sending cold emails to people that don’t want them sucks. It’s not going to work, and if you don’t really know what you’re doing, they’re all going to go to junk/spam anyway.
I’ve worked in email for almost 10 years at this point. The number of people that buy a list of contacts and thinks they’re going to just drown in leads after blasting out a shitty email to a bunch of strangers is way too high, and it never works out for them. I’ve seen it attempted and failed countless times.
Can it be done? Yea, a few people pull it off. I guarantee zero of those success stories started with a low-effort post on Reddit, pleading for someone to give them… what exactly? I don’t even know what the point of this thread is. Cold emails are a bad idea for anyone, but especially someone this unwilling to even try to learn anything.
Well it seems like OP is only asking for advice on the technique in general, I see no problem with that.
The advice would be not to do it. Name one mainstream email service provider that doesn’t forbid cold emailing in their terms of service. This has been a frowned upon practice for years.
Cold emailing can work really well if it is targeted, personal to the prospect, and customized. Assuming you are doing b2b sales–this isnt too complicated. If b2c–dont bother.
Spamming targeted lists can work but you need to protect your domain authority so your emails are more likely to hit an inbox. e.g. if your domain is “acme.com” have a 2nd domain for your spam emails to be sent from such as: “@getacme.com” and then watch your open/reply rates–when they drop off switch the 2nd domain name again.
Whether targeted and customized or “spray pray” becomes your approach–maximize your “e-mail preview”–Gmail gives you like a 120 character preview across your subject line and email. Your mileage may vary based on email client and screen size. That is the most important part of your email. Do not waste it with something like: “Hi there, the reason for my email is that acme corp…” Say something relevant and compelling.
What would work better, cold emailing companies or direct messaging on LinkedIn?
Definitely. But didn’t work. I have a tool that pays people to open up the emails, but I dont know if people would use it.