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We get bombarded every day and half the night with endless requests for our time and attention. And even when we let our guard down for a second and open an email, click on a link or respond to someone somehow trying to get us to listen to them, we are conditioned to expect that 99% of these contacts are insincere, superficial and temporary.
Finding new clients is - not surprisingly - one of the top priorities agencies have. But it's after you've closed the deal that the next challenge comes up. And it's not a small one!
In the early days of your career, it's much better to learn from the experience of others than to figure it all out on your own. After a few years, if you’re persistent, you’ll become an expert in your chosen field, and that's when many people start thinking: “As an expert, I can sell my service on my own behalf instead of working for someone else.".
Here’s your mission, should you choose to accept it. Write a brief email to someone who doesn’t know you and who is not expecting to receive anything from you and persuade them to do something that you ask.
Prompts are very important when creating AI-generated content because it tells the AI tool everything about the kind of content you want to produce. The more information you provide in your prompt, the more aligned the final product will be with what you have in mind.
It’s no secret that AI text generation tools can get the job done faster than you can. And more creatively than you can. And with more detail than you can. And do it all in a hundred different ways you would probably never think of on your own.
In order to get replies, a cold email has to be short yet powerful, and intriguing. For this reason, each part of this short message has to bear meaning and play a crucial communicative role. Check if you know these 6 tremendously important steps to write a cold email for sales that works.
Do you have links in your cold emails? I bet you do. We often feel the need to add a link or two – either in the body of our email or in the signature. Moreover, we usually want to know if someone clicked the link or not. Ideally, we would like to know how many people clicked the link and who it was exactly. There are many tools that allow us to track clicks on links in emails, but all of them use the same mechanism to do that. Unfortunately, the mechanism is not perfect, and it may cause spam alerts if we set up our links wrong. That's why it's important to put in the links properly into our message not to get into spam folder. Here's how to do that.
If someone made a list of the "most commonly used sources of b2b leads", LinkedIn would be undisputable #1 on that list. And that's understandable. LinkedIn is a mine of information about businesses and people connected with those businesses. But there are also other platforms including collections of companies, divided into categories, where you can find ideal prospects along with some reference points for your cold email campaigns. Here are 15 places on the web where you can find SaaS companies, startups, software houses, marketing experts and other companies that will match your Ideal Customer Profile.