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detectivegibbles

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Trouble getting replies on cold emails?

Hopefully this helps one person today...


Been toying with various cold emails the last 2 weeks since rejoining my new (old) company.


I'm having a solid response rate (20% today alone on 40 emails) to the following template (customized to my market):


"Hey PERSON -


Are you still best contact for imaging related projects?"


Noticing two things in responses:


1) they answer yes or no

2) they extrapolate more info than I initially asked for. "Yes, I am. I oversee X, Y, and Z"


I'm then following up with something along the lines of:


"Oh awesome. Well, I'm sure you don't NEED anything right now. But, if you're having any issues with service costs or planning any system purchases, happy to provide some options that may (or may not) help.


Anything come to mind?"

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Kosta_Konfucius
Politicker
6
Sales Rep
20% response rate on 40 emails is a huge way to start your tuesday

Following up with a single question email after tailored messaging always does the best for me!
detectivegibbles
Politicker
2
Sales Director
Make your emails look like text messages. Always a winner.
antiASKHOLE
Tycoon
5
Bravado's Resident Asshole
Nice! I'm trying something similar with cold calling into a newer section of territory that I adopted. Basically starting with all of the leads the previous person had and contact them to ask the same or similar questions.
detectivegibbles
Politicker
1
Sales Director
Love it. No point in building rapport with someone who you won't be selling to.
punishedlad
Tycoon
3
Business Development Team Lead
Solid. Straight to the point. Not wasting anyone's time๐Ÿ‘
Sunbunny31
Politicker
3
Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
Love the straightforward simplicity of the email. I'd appreciate getting this too.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
2
๐ŸฆŠ
Yeah I'm gonna play around with this and test tomorrow.
detectivegibbles
Politicker
1
Sales Director
Holding you accountable...

Report back on how it goes!
Diablo
Politicker
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Sr. AE
I love such emails and I feel like responding too because there is no crap - to the point, no push, I am there for you if something goes wrong type of conversation
detectivegibbles
Politicker
1
Sales Director
Love hearing this. People are busy. Shorter the better!
Pachacuti
Politicker
1
They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
That's not a bad email template - basically trying to get the ball rolling. Cold emailing is harder than cold calling IMO - too easy to hit the delete key.
detectivegibbles
Politicker
1
Sales Director
It's REALLY hard to get people on the phone in my industry.

Majority are never behind a desk for 90% of the day.
oldcloser
Arsonist
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๐Ÿ’€
Seems this helped more than one person today. My solution has a future looking โ€œkicker.โ€ Making it nearly impossible to distill a message into one line. Iโ€™m gonna play with this tomorrow as well.

Hey Baller, you the shot caller? I can make you taller!

detectivegibbles
Politicker
1
Sales Director
A good rhyme always wins right?
GDO
Politicker
1
BDM
I use this in my breakup mail
detectivegibbles
Politicker
0
Sales Director
Solidddd.
Justatitle
Big Shot
1
Account Executive
Yeah I mean if you can get above 10% response on cold email whether it is negative or positive its a net gain.
detectivegibbles
Politicker
1
Sales Director
Big facts.
Maximas
Tycoon
0
Senior Sales Executive
The more your email is tailored the more responses to expect, glad for your response rate, good job!
detectivegibbles
Politicker
0
Sales Director
Verbal judo!
ReadTheScript
Politicker
0
Sales Manager
Nice and short.. plus it's a nice pattern interrupt.

The number of emails I got in my last role to sell whatever sales tech that looked the same as everyone else makes me physically ill to think about.

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