Please Roast My Idea 🔥
Positivity is great but sometimes we need a reality check. Please try to burn my product idea into the ground. If you can convince me not to waste my time I would be super grateful!
The Pitch
Problem: Cold emails are hard. Most of the time you need to send multiple reminders to even get a response. In the beginning, you can do this manually, but once you scale up your email outreach this becomes impossible.
Solution: My yet-to-be-named application lets you create email flows. You can schedule automated follow-up emails that will only be sent if the person hasn't responded yet.
What is your opinion on this idea, would you use it? Any honest feedback would be helpful!
This already exists. I used to use it when I was an SDR. It was called salesloft I think. We created a flow with a cadence. Email 1 went out, then email 2 went out 3 days later if no response, then email 3 went out 3 days after that if no response
Hi Dirk,
I think most CRMs will have some version of this functionality. A simple version of this is the Google sheets plugin Yet Another Mail Merge. There is a limited free version and it's $20 per year for the premium version.
The problem for my cold outreach, is that a lot of those emails get marked as spam. That is a major problem to overcome.
If you are interested in this space, I think there is an opportunity to create a site/resource dedicated to email outreach. You could become a consultant in this space, or just promote affiliate offers.
You could become an expert on all the tools, apps, email address verification, spam filters, etc. Most businesses don't know about personalization tools like Lemlist and how to correctly setup servers, etc. It's all very complicated, which makes it a great opportunity.
I hope that helps.
John
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