Cold Email Outreach
Discussions center on the effectiveness, ethics, and annoyances of cold emailing in startups, including spam complaints, low response rates, and debates over selling contact information.
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point taken. we didn't want to spam people's email until we were ready, but it seems that folks have gotten used to that flow
What's wrong with keeping contact details and sending things directly to people?
As a PR piece for why most email to him goes unanswered?
There's nothing wrong with you. You probably don't have enough visibility on the web. Having said that, these emails are annoying and uninteresting 95% of the time.
I suppose they get too much email to make it worth emailing them about it? Or?
Seems there are different views on this. Maybe you should add something to your profile indicating if you want to receive unsolicited emails from startups.
Some "growth hacker" is testing email addresses. Don't reply, that's what they want.
this is really generous and should definitely be followed up on. tons of email is easier to ignore than a cascade of real letters.
Would you respond to cold emails and out-of-blue LinkedIn messages?
Spoiler: if you email me out of no where you won't get a "lead" you'll get marked as spam. Public shaming will ensue if you continue to spam me.