Can you paste an example title and email here? I'm a founder and get 100's of emails per day. I often reply to cold emails, but honestly, with 90% of them, I can't really tell if they will solve one of my top 3 problems.
Totally. Here is what my emails typically look like:
Re: quick scheduling question
Hi [name],
I’ve followed [company] for a while and the scale you’re operating at is impressive. With customer and partner meetings, plus internal meetings, I imagine your calendar gets pretty full.
I’m working on a way for founders to cut down the email back-and-forth of scheduling without hiring or managing an EA.
Is scheduling something you still handle personally at all?
I feel this is the wrong business direction. If you do it well, at most you'll only save on the salary of an administrative assistant, but they actually want much more, and this small improvement won't attract their attention.
Can you paste an example title and email here? I'm a founder and get 100's of emails per day. I often reply to cold emails, but honestly, with 90% of them, I can't really tell if they will solve one of my top 3 problems.
Totally. Here is what my emails typically look like:
Re: quick scheduling question
Hi [name],
I’ve followed [company] for a while and the scale you’re operating at is impressive. With customer and partner meetings, plus internal meetings, I imagine your calendar gets pretty full.
I’m working on a way for founders to cut down the email back-and-forth of scheduling without hiring or managing an EA.
Is scheduling something you still handle personally at all?
– Preston
I feel this is the wrong business direction. If you do it well, at most you'll only save on the salary of an administrative assistant, but they actually want much more, and this small improvement won't attract their attention.
What magnitude response rate would you expect? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%? Have you ever benefited from following up on a cold email?
Very low, like 0.01%. And oftentimes these people just say no. I try following up, but that usually doesn't do much.