Personal email? wth?? 🤦‍♀️

Question

I have been talking to a prospect on Linkedin from a prominent corporation. It has been clear it's about an offering and they give me their personal email instead? This happened now for a third time. Isn't this weird?

Accepted Answer

“Thanks for sharing your email, Tommy. Just sent you an invite for XX/YY. What I’ve witnessed in the past is invites getting lost / not popping up when sent to personal email IDs. Are you against sharing your corporate email where I can send the same invite to double sure it doesn’t get lost?”

Answer

Eh depends. I have clients who are big - like government big - but the town they are in is poor so they use personal emails instead of Outlook.

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I’ve had this happen before but in one situation it was done deliberately.  This was a case of a CFO that was getting ready to retire and didn’t want to share intel over the organization’s work email for confidentiality reasons.  There’s nothing wrong with asking for someone’s work email, but I did want to bring up another point of view.  Also, if you’re messaging someone on LinkedIn, more often times than not people provide a personal email rather than a work email.  I’ve actually had some success reaching out to these personal emails — at least initially, to get a conversation started.

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Do you have Lusha, Apollo, ZoomInfo, Seamless, or any of the other email database providers?

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Is it smb, when I sold to business owners it was a lot of personal emails

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Doesn’t hurt to ask for the work email. You can easily scrape the email of this contact or anyone else from the tip caffeine shared. All the best !

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So,what was their reply when you were asking them for the business one instead,just to validate their reasons why they didn't wanna share it or gave it as a first option!!

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Sounds like everyone just really likes you, and wants to take the opportunity to connect on a personal level.

Rosie

Personal email? wth?? 🤦‍♀️

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Rosie

Personal email? wth?? 🤦‍♀️

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