Business Operations & Logistics
Stop Using the Term ‘Cold Calling’ — Use These 5 Alternative Names Instead
Re-naming the term 'cold calling' can help grow your business — here's how.
Cold Email
Building a Business
4 Easy Steps for Scaling Your Agency with Cold Email
Despite getting a bad rap, when done well, cold email is arguably the most effective and scalable lead-generation method for businesses.
By Lewis Schenk
Building a Business
How to Sell Yourself
The opening sentence of our pitch is our most important. And too many of us are getting it wrong.
By Jason Feifer
Marketing
Here Is Exactly Why No One Is Replying to Your Cold Emails
Check out the six most common mistakes that make your cold emails less effective. Are you committing them?
By Reshu Rathi
Marketing
How to Write Cold Emails That Quickly Convert Sales
Email is an effective way to make contact, if you do your homework before hitting "send."
By John Rampton
Building a Business
How an 18-Year-Old Uncovered Tim Ferriss’s Secret Cold Email Template to Reach CEOs and VIPs
Never email someone and ask to 'jump on the phone,' 'get coffee' or 'pick your brain.'
By Alex Banayan
Marketing
If You Want to Actually Get a Response to Your Email Pitch, Here’s What You Need to Do
Do these five things to woo your leads into responding.
Business Operations & Logistics
How I Generated Over $20 Million in New Business Using Cold Email Outreach
Success at any pursuit requires time and attention to detail. Cold email outreach is no exception.
Human Resources
5 Essentials to Writing Cold Emails That Convert Prospective Clients
Successful freelancers know how to make a pitch that stands out from the crowd.
Business Operations & Logistics
Simple Tips for Writing Emails That Get Read
Consider your audience.
By David Hammer
Marketing
5 Deadly Email Prospecting Mistakes You’re Probably Making
Add obvious value. Personalize. And include a hook. Those steps will increase your likelihood of a response.
By Marc Wayshak
Marketing
3 Cold Email Strategies With High Response Rates
The two most important things to keep in mind when it comes to cold email: persistence and personalization.
By Eric Siu
Marketing
5 Secrets to Writing Sales Emails That Prospects Will Reply To
Think it through from the POV of your prospects. Visualizing how much of it they are actually going to view tells your exactly where to focus your efforts. Fire off some boilerplate with just a name change? Game over.
By Marc Wayshak
Building a Business
How to Cold Email a Stranger for Advice
The cold email is a tough email to write, but the right nugget of wisdom can save an entrepreneur years of headache and thousands of dollars.
By Ramit Sethi
Building a Business
5 Reasons to Ask Sales Prospects More Questions
Asking genuine and caring questions is the number one way to build trust with anyone, including prospects.
By Marc Wayshak
Building a Business
Make It Your New Year’s Resolution to Cold Email Your Idol
Start your year off strong by hitting the 'send' button.
By Rose Leadem
Building a Business
Are Successful Cold Calls Still Possible in the Digital Age?
As long as you have a thick skin and can form a relationship with a listener, you can still cold-call with success.
By Danny Wong
Marketing
Step-by-Step Guide to Drafting the Best Cold Email Ever
When it comes to cold emailing, less is more.
Marketing
How to Get All of Your Pitch Emails Opened and Answered
Follow these five strategies to guarantee your pitch emails will not only be notices, but opened.
Thought Leaders
How to Get Responses When You Email High-Level Contacts
Sometimes it's not what you know, but who -- even if you don't actually know them. Yet.
Marketing
Why I Emailed a Dog
Having fun with a cold email to a prospect livens up the pitch and betters your odds of a response.
By David Koji
Business News
IBM Is Taking an Unusual Approach to Selling Patents to Startups
While it's not strange for a large patent holder to sell off patents, IBM's method is raising some eyebrows.
By Barb Darrow
Building a Business
6 Tips for Finding the Right Prospects and Getting in Front of Them
Seeking introductions has evolved to be leaner, but people's attention is ever more scarce.
By Alex Iskold
Marketing
Opportunity Everywhere: Why and How You Should Cold Email Everyone
Using this method has gotten me on the phone with celebrities and landed me as a contributor to this website.
By Andrew Medal