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Author here, our company also went through YC in 2015. Email me with any questions: chris at laskie.co
by gatsby 6y ago
Author here, our company also went through YC in 2015.
Email me with any questions: chris at laskie.co
- slickbot 6y agoLet’s talk pop up on https://laskie.co/ https://laskie.co/ takes in an empty input.
- boldslogan 6y agosurprised you never gave an example of a frigid ice cold polar bear kind of cold email. could you drop one in the comments here?
- goatherders 6y agoSure. I'll help as my company does cold email as a service. Greeting SNIP Relevance CTA Hey Bold, Saw your HN question about an example of an "ice cold polar bear kind of email." I write emails like this all day for companies like Boldslogan. Would be happy to walk your through it in 10 or 12 minutes. Zoom on Tuesday or Wed? C
- radihuq 6y agoNice! You got me to check out your website :)
- sk5t 6y agoFWIW this sort of email triggers my immediate shutdown reactions in several ways: use of "Hey" greeting from some unknown non-friend, general (albeit here not total) avoidance of first-person pronouns[1], phony-baloney specificity in time and duration for an initial meeting. [1] "Saw your email," "Would love to hear more"--no, avoiding "I" does not make the writer appear stronger.
- goatherders 6y agoIt doesn't work all the time, but it works well enough.
- herodoturtle 6y agoWell done, and thanks for sharing your insight. Small gripe, I found this line in your article's opening remarks a unnecessary - "If that doesn't ring a bell, then please ignore this and go about your life a few million poorer."
- AussieWog93 6y agoA bit of feedback on your landing page: Something about "hyperlocal incentivization" caught my eye and I was thoroughly confused. Then read the whole paragraph and actually laughed out loud. The next thing I did was actually look at the products, because you'd got me in a good mood. Brilliant piece of copy.
- ohazi 6y ago> If that doesn't ring a bell, then please ignore this and go about your life a few million poorer. This line is distasteful and detracts from the rest of what you wrote.
- Edmond 6y agoseems like dry humor :)
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- rhizome 6y agoWhat is the joke?
- Edmond 6y agoIf one has to explain a joke then either they're bad at it, it's a bad joke or they have the wrong audience....I'll leave the conclusion as to which is it to the readers :) The article is about making money (even from the title)..the commented upon line is insinuating that if you think the article isn't for you (ie you just randomly stumbled upon it), then you obviously are not interested in making money...sarcasm :)
- walty8 6y agoThe article is actually useful, despite the annoying introduction line of `a few million poorer`. People could stop reading the article for whatever reasons. Just one typo I believe, at the end of https://laskie.co/playbooks/bootstrapping-b2b-sales/cold-emails https://laskie.co/playbooks/bootstrapping-b2b-sales/cold-ema..., should be `same for emails` instead of `same for calls`.