ThatNewAE

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

I’m going to be a b*tch

I am not usually a b*tch (or so I like to believe). But rest assured, there's a part of me that's pissed reading this Followup email. So chances of me responding are in negatives right now.

*in a miserable tone- "thoughts?"

😟 bitch

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Gasty

Notable Contributor

War Room Community Manager

The best part about this email was Hi

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

basically

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

WOW. Might as well say, "I saw that you opened my last email, why don't you just fucking answer me?"

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

It’s worse - TELL ME YOURSELF THAT YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED.
They absolutely do not trust their product to believe I could be interested. 😂

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Yeah, sending an email to meet their KPIs.
AE: "Look "boss", I emailed them and they won't answer me"

MGR: "Dumass, what did you send them?"

AE: " It was a break-up email to see if they were still interested"

Email: "tell me you're not interested so I can get my boss off my back on this deal"

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

A breakup email as the first Followup email. Do you want to see what the first email was ? WAIT HAHAHAH.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

That's what it seems like lmao

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

Hehe.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

So "cutting edge" that they cut themselves out of an opportunity with the follow-up.

GDO

Politicker

BDM

damn this is even worse

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Let me guess - you have zero to do with the website, nor are you responsible for growth or ROI.

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

I have a website, yes. That’s a blog. Not like e-commerce website though. 🥲

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

But performance! Growth! ROI! UX!
Tell me that you're not interested in those things.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

👀🍿

coletrain

Politicker

Account Executive

This is KPI-driven to take heat off of some line manager getting hounded by their higher ups on "why aren't our guys sending more emails"
Which means the quality doesn't matter, the activity showing up on the dashboard is enough. In other words, this horribly written break up email gets through as an actual company effort.

sketchysales

Politicker

Sales Manager

lazy lazy emailing from someone who clearly hates their job.

RandyLahey

Politicker

Account Executive

Guilting prospects is just not the way to win.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

The 'hi' is quite something, but it's just so repetitive. Doesn't seem like it's written by a human. But it's also too shite to be AI.

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

I wanna see the reply. Unleash the hounds!

pirate

Big Shot

🦜☠️ Account Executive

It's as if the email is begging to be non interesting

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

It's an extremely bland email.

HVACexpert

Politicker

sales engineer

Which makes it interesting

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

and it becomes an oxymoron just like that. And I'm riveted.

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

Haha you are really pissed. Depending on the prospects, I also add that it takes just a few seconds to respond and many a times I hear back.

BTQ

Politicker

Account Manager

sounds like AI chatbot wrote this lol

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

So pray tell why are we all so worried about AI taking our jobs, if this is how shabby the work is.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

How can I repeat the same sentence multiple times and do 0% customization

Retired Sales Professional

There is nothing wrong with following up, but when you remind a prospect that you emailed them before, might ruin what you work so hard to accomplish. There are soft point in your email like,"given your busy schedule and I completely understand". but then you go on to use words like "bombard", "haven't responded" and "not interested" which could turn off any potential client from ever respnding to your e-mail.
Maybe something like, " I understand given your busy schedule you might not be able to respond to my e-mail, is there any way we can setup a date where we can discuss some of the key points in my presentation that will benefit you company by reducing cost and increasing revenue? Greatly appreciate your time and look forward to speaking to you in the future." Something to that fact.

VP of Sales

Solid point to add some sort of value. I would suggest asking when would be better timing or ask if they are interested in learning more.

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

Hmmmmm

Named Accounts Manager

Ignore
Block
Done

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

Sir. I love drama. Please.

ApocalyBoom

Politicker

Account Executive

Its like the email is telling you not to be interested.

Beans

Big Shot

Enterprise Account Executive

Jesus christ that could've been 8 words.

VP of Sales

There is a way more elegant way to send a follow-up email

Coffeesforclosers

Notable Contributor

Director Sales and Market Development

Pretty amazing to make one email using only 5 words

ventox35

Politicker

Sales Leader

"chat-gpt, write a sales follow up email"copy+paste

salesdingo

Fire Starter

Sales VP

Yikes. Is that you Veruca?

Global Account Manager

Emails don't really work these days, nor do cold calls out of the blue. I think having someone you know to walk you to the person you're looking to connect with, is a better way to do it. I started a CIO round table and just asked CIOs to join the group. It was hugely successful.

SonnyVaccaro

Good Citizen

Growth Lead

It's trash - we all have to navigate getting in front of prospects which is incredibly challenging. These types of people hurt our profession and you should block them.

Appointment Setter

Not responding either 😑

TheHypnotist

Executive

Sales Manager

You will receive many thousands of (crap) emails like this in the future.
It may be due to the inexperience of the person sending them, it may be due to their lack of empathy, their lack of training, or the shitty training they were given by a misled manager.
If you are empathetic (and have time), you may decide to write a guide for (shitty) followup emails, and reply with a link to that guide so that you (and others like you) have to suffer less crappy outreach like this in the future.

The other alternatives I can think of are:
* Block, mark as spam, and hurt their domain health
* Ignore
* Reply telling them how crap they are - but let's face it, that can be nasty, time consuming and doesn't help you except as a temporary stress relief.

Good luck.

underdog

Big Shot

Outside Sales Representative Power & HVAC

This Email presents itself as if it was written by a desperate high school girl trying to get the prom kings attention. Yikes.

Titanic

Opinionated

Senior VP - Sales

Respectful after the third read through it, but can’t help but think that maybe there’s a language barrier?

ChumpChange

Politicker

Channel Manager

Ugh... this hurt my soul.

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