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surprised you never gave an example of a frigid ice cold polar bear kind of cold email. could you drop one in the comments here?
by boldslogan 6y ago
surprised 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.