How do you handle the cold outreach directed at you?

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Sawyer Wyatt · Accepted Answer

If it feel like just another generic pitch, I often don’t engage. But if it’s personalized and seems like it could be beneficial, I’m open to giving it a chance.

Fay_F · Answer

I feel like I'm doing something very contradictory right now. I'm ignoring these cold reaches while I keep sending cold emails to my users. T.T

murph · Answer

@fay0227 I think if you're emailing your existing users, its not a cold email. i don't think you're contradictory in that case at all!

Lorenz Sell · Answer

I've met with a few people who cold emailed me and it's always been an interested experience.  I always learn a lot.  I do a lot of cold outreach myself, sending out about 1000 emails a day.  A lot of what I learned about how to do that came from meeting people who cold emailed me.

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Sometimes , I reply briefly if the outreach seems promising. I might ask for more details or clarify what they're offering to see if it’s worth pursuing further.

Tyrone Robb · Answer

All of the emails go straight to spam, I don't have my number anywhere. And on Linkedin it depends, most of them are people seeking upvotes so I assess and decide if I like it or not.

murph · Answer

Most is low effort copy pasta -- I ignore. If I think someone actually applied some minimal effort tailoring the message, I'll respect that effort with a quick "thanks, but no thanks" reply.

Much more likely to respond to cold message on LI than cold email fwiw...

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I usually take a quick glance at the message to see if it's relevant to me or my work. If it doesn't catch my interest or seem useful, I might ignore it or delete it.

How do you handle the cold outreach directed at you?

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