Tips for a Successful Cold Email Prospecting Campaign
Put Yourself in Their Shoes
Imagine the emails your targeted customers
receive. Picture them receiving an email from a competitor right before yours.
Write Like You Talk
Try to read it out loud
before you send it, just to see how it sounds. You might even want to act like
you are face to face with them.
Personalize What You Can
It’s great if you’re
spending a lot of time researching specific contacts. You’ll need to do this
for higher end sales and more enterprise level sales.
Put All Contact Info in Your Signature
Avoid Images
Most images you want to
avoid. Of course, you can experiment and test things. But, as a typical rule,
we like to keep images out and signatures short.
Include a P.S.
This asks if you should
speak to someone else. This also serves as a way to fulfill the opt-out
responsibility in your email and still keeping it
personal.
Close with a Question
I always recommend
closing your cold email with a question, so
they’ll respond and then from there it will start the dialogue.
Follow Up, then Follow Up Again!
Just because they don’t
respond, doesn’t mean you should move on. In fact, nearly 85% of the hot leads
we generate come AFTER the initial email send.
Create a series of follow-up messages that go out to people
who don’t respond right away. Every 3 to 7 days you should send another.
Test Your Messages
Don’t just use the same email message time and again if it
isn’t working. You need to measure three things to determine the success of an
email:
- Open Rate
- Response Rate
- Sales Generated
- Attachment Engagement Rate
Consistency
Do some level of
outreach every single day. This keeps your pipeline humming. Failing to do this
will lead to a dried up pipeline.
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