What can we ask our addressees for? What next steps can we plan for them to take after reading our message? What can we expect from them to do, and what would be too much? The CTA should be the final part of our message, but we should ask all those crucial questions even before we get about the copy. Here are some guidelines on how to find the answers to those questions.
9 mins readThe issue of different time zones complicates the definition of optimal email delivery time. What is 7 AM to our prospect in California is 4 PM for us in Poland. Many companies like ours have been prospecting overseas by sending cold emails. In such a case, should we aim at the optimal time on our prospects' clock? Or should we consider our own office hours, so that we can react quickly if someone responds to our message?
5 mins readTime matters. Sending emails on particular days of the week and at specific times of the day may influence the open rates and response rates. That’s what has been proven by many studies. However, a major part of the research considers the best delivery time for email newsletters. Newsletters and cold emails are not the same, so can we apply those newsletter studies to cold emails as well? What is the best time to send email campaign?
5 mins readSince we released the new A/B testing feature, it’s become the easiest and most convenient way to carry out a split test of your cold email copy in Woodpecker. However, if you wish you can still do it manually. Let me show you how to do it in a quick and simple way.
6 mins readHow many ‘most effective’ cold email templates have you already seen on the web? How many of them do you know by heart? The ‘most effective’ phrase means that it worked great for a person who used it in the first place. It’s a shame many cold email senders take it as the ‘most effective’ template ever that works always and for everyone. How to use the ‘most effective’ email templates in our cold email outreach? Should we use them at all?
7 mins readOk, so we’ve done some research on our prospects and we’ve prepared our tailor-made copy. How do we combine the two, so we don’t have to copy & paste each piece of information one by one from our contact base to each message when it comes to sending our cold emails? Here are two tools that can help you carry out highly personalized outreach at scale.
5 mins readRight, so we did some research on our prospects. Time to write mind-blowing, personal copy of our emails. That's where things get tough... But if you really did your homework right, it won't be as hard as you think. Here’s how to use the outcome of your research and skillfully incorporate it in your emails to impress your prospects and make them hit ‘Reply’.
8 mins readIn the previous article I described two reasons why people hate cold emails. Then, I converted them into two rules we should follow if we want to make our messages personal. That was a lot of theory and analysis, but what about practice? Well, here’s how I find out who my prospects really are to make my outreach personal and relevant.
8 mins readHave you ever wondered why most people hate getting cold emails? We always say we hate them, but can we actually tell why? I think that when we realize the reasons why we hate receiving cold emails, we will be able to write and send cold emails that our addressees won’t actually hate. So why, oh why, do we all hate getting cold emails?
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