What's the most "fraudulent" cold email you've sent that landed you a meeting with a prospect?

Come on, we've all sent a couple of emails that were spicier than others. Curious to hear how you savages landed a meeting using some creative copy ๐Ÿคฃ

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Notmyrealname
Politicker
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AE
Literally every email cadence our marketing team creates.

Edit: Just realised you said landed a meeting. Nevermind.ย 
taeke
Opinionated
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Sales
Hahaha, this actually made me chuckle ๐Ÿคฃ
Sunbunny31
Politicker
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Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
Yeah, me too.ย  ย ย 
poweredbycaffeine
WR Lieutenant
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โ˜•๏ธ
โ€œJust got off the line with [insert their department VP] and they said to reach out to some folks on her/his team to get the conversation startedโ€

Yes, I did just get off the lineโ€ฆand they told me to fuck off and did not tell me who else to reach out to.ย 
funcoupons
WR Officer
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๐Ÿ‘‘
If anyone says they havenโ€™t done this they a liarย 
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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๐ŸฆŠ
I've definitely done this.
Balloons4baboons
Opinionated
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Account Executive
I have never done this, no word of a lie and now I feel like the ultimate fucking amateur.
Pachacuti
Politicker
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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
That hits WAY too close to home
Ryleedawg
Member
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Owner
Love it!
SSinYYZ
Good Citizen
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Vice-President, Producer
"Hi Prospect (she's GC at a huge North American company - I tell you this only so you know that spicy has the potential to resonate at all levels of hierarchy)

I saw that we have 14 common connections on LinkedIn, all of whom are black lawyers, which is funny to me, as I am not a lawyer and I'm only a little bit black."

For context, I am bi-racial and so is she (both black/white)

She thought it was hilarious, wrote me back and I landed the biggest deal I've ever done in my career.
Telehealth_2the_Moon
Notable Contributor
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Director of Business Development
Sometimes you can feel confident in a person's interest in sports from their LinkedIn. I will look up the first bit of negative news I can find, or something huge and older and send it with some light smack talk. Tell them if they want to tell me why I'm wrong they should take a meeting.ย 

I don't use it for everyone, it's a part of my hail mary efforts if a targeted outreach push doesn't get me anywhere with a company I think is a perfect fit.ย 
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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๐ŸฆŠ
Baiting them with trash talk. I like it.ย 
funcoupons
WR Officer
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๐Ÿ‘‘
Iโ€™m not a big sports gal. What would the conversion rate be on emailing them โ€œU G L Y You ainโ€™t ย got no alibi u ugly, ay ay u ugly!โ€ย 
Telehealth_2the_Moon
Notable Contributor
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Director of Business Development
Oh yeah, Brady coming back has made it even easier. "Looks like INSERT THEIR TEAM HERE won't be winning much this year"
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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๐ŸฆŠ
I normally DGAF when athletes "unretire" but bc of the big ass deal he made about his family and how it was his wife's time to be able to live her dreams with his full support....yeahhh.....
TennisandSales
Politicker
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Head Of Sales
Kinda hard to share the exact emails if you dont know the product,ย 

But when i was an SDR selling SEO software i would for sure be stretching the truth about what the product actually did like guaranteeing they would out rank their competitors and shit.ย 

never worked super well for me as you could imagine hahaย 
taeke
Opinionated
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Sales
That's hilarious ๐Ÿ˜‚. I guess when it came down to it, they realised it wouldn't help them outrank competitors!
alphasales
Politicker
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AE (Account Executive)
Some personalization around Dwayne the Rock Johnson!
taeke
Opinionated
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Sales
Hahaha gotta love that! ๐Ÿ˜‚
SADNESSLieutenant
Politicker
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Officer of โ™ฅ๏ธ
beggining of covid, we had access to gift cards. Easter time.

my smartass:

SBJ: You'd look eggscelent on a $150 amazon shopping spree

sent it to 1000 prospects overnight

Booked 8 meetings the next day

YEET
0PercentCloseRate
Politicker
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Oh boy
Damn dude. Finance was okay with that expense?
SADNESSLieutenant
Politicker
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Officer of โ™ฅ๏ธ
They were like โ€˜we need meetings, do anything you can, we will give a gift card even if they showโ€™
0PercentCloseRate
Politicker
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Oh boy
Glad it worked for you guys! We tried similar things during the Pandy and were met with crickets.ย 
SADNESSLieutenant
Politicker
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Officer of โ™ฅ๏ธ
yeah the rest of my team was too, I think i just shocked them into a meeting w my copy
Avon
Politicker
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Senior Account Executive
Any email template we used to use that starts "Hope you are well" ...Truth is its better to catch them when they're feeling frustrated which makes them open to trying something new
braintank
Politicker
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Enterprise Account Executive
When I sold e-commerce software we made it seems like Walmart (or whomever their biggest retail partner was) was asking us to reach out to them.
funcoupons
WR Officer
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๐Ÿ‘‘
I did the same and would do it again. ๐Ÿ‘ฟ
braintank
Politicker
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Enterprise Account Executive
It worked like a charm, and thankfully no one asked too many questions.ย 
alphasales
Politicker
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AE (Account Executive)
Works well on calls too ;)
saltylabrador
Executive
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Enterprise Account Executive
Hi George,

I wanted to introduce myself as part of the [company] Enterprise team. Weโ€™ve been supporting banks like X, Y, Z among others for many years in their [insert general business problem/initiative e.g. digital transformation] for many years.

There is a big drive with many of our customers to [insert your strengths/USP here]

This approach will accelerate the [insert business initiative] which we know to be a priority and can solve challenges around:
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I would be delighted to meet with you to introduce myself, talk through some of your initiatives and share updates.

Would you be available for 30 minutes [suggest 2 time slots]?
Kosta_Konfucius
Politicker
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Sales Rep
Hi-Any interest in learning our offering?
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