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How to write effective cold emails?

How do you write effective cold emails to people that have never heard of you?
If you have done cold emailing yourself and want to share you can post your template too :)

How would you go about writing a good cold email and what would you include and not include, how many follow-up emails would you send, how often?

If you want elaborate even more, in your own opinion how would you write a cold email in 1,2,3,4... format from start to finish?

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    Hey Oskar,

    Happy to help here. This has popped up many times on Indie Hackers and I wrote a couple of blog posts.

    Cold Email 101 - https://sesamint.substack.com/p/cold-email-101
    Writing email sequences - https://sesamint.substack.com/p/how-to-write-winning-cold-email-sequences
    Cold Email Case study - https://sesamint.substack.com/p/cold-emailing-during-covid

    Let me know if you have any questions.

    Best,
    Sandeep

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      Appreciate it a ton! Going to have a read through and take some notes for sure!

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      Had a quick readthrough. Really valuable advice will later have a second readthrough with notes.
      Thanks! :D

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        Absolutely! Anything you want to clarify let me know!

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    Read: Cold Email Template Issues: 10 Popular Cold Email Examples Used Today : - https://vpsal.es/3fjafKB

    Listen: Making Cold Email Work in B2B SaaS - https://vpsal.es/3feHHSw

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      Going to have a read and a listen. So many great articles put here. Shouldn’t be able to go wrong after combining the info from them all.

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      Appreciate it! Will have a look at that now :)

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    👍https://prospectrole.com In case you need to generate email leads for those cold emails, please have a try at this Chrome extension. Will generate email leads in seconds and verify them so they don't end up in spam.

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    Hi Oskar,

    Great question about cold emails.

    I met so many people with the same issue that I created a product to solve it: SplashPad (https://getsplashpad.com).

    SplashPad helps you create emails that get noticed and responses by providing pre-written messages and helping you customize them.

    Cold outreach is one of our most popular use cases.

    Oskar, I have beeing doing 15-minute video calls with Indie Hackers to help them create their first message using SplashPad. I would be happy to do the same with you. We could create a high-performing cold-outreach email together -- free of charge of course. Are you open-minded to that?

    Find any time that works for you here: https://tinyurl.com/yyn3mrqa.

    Hope we talk soon, Oskar.
    -Ryan

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      Thank you! Ye, cold emailing I have found to be very hard. I don’t know if it’s due to the pure status that email has gotten that if you don’t know the person beforehand it’s instantly considered as spam.
      Going to look through all those articles you linked.

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