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Starting Warm Conversationswith Cold Email Heather R Morgan|@HeatherReyhan www.salesfolk.com

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Learn how to start warm conversations with anyone just using cold email. Mastering cold email is a powerful tool that can unlock many doors and get you past the gatekeepers--whether it's for sales, business development, or just building your network.

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Starting Warm Conversationswith Cold Email

Heather R Morgan|@HeatherReyhan www.salesfolk.com

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• 7 years of copywriting and content marketing

• Clients:

• Collaborated with Aaron Ross on compiling sequel to Predictable Revenue

• Written emails that get as much as 38% response rates

About Me

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Email still beats all social media channels for bringing

leads.

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Build your network & fill your pipeline with deals

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Inbound takes 6 months to 2 years to

ramp up

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With Outbound Email, You Call the

Shots

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97% of Cold Emails Are

Ignored

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7 Sins of Cold Email

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1. Crappy Subject Lines

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2. You Write Like a Robot.

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3. Longer than the Great Wall

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4. Value Muddled in a Sea of Junk

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5. Don’t Take Your Pants off on the 1st

Date

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6. Overdesigned HTML Emails

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7. Giving Up After 1 Email

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BAD COLD EMAILS

• 2-3 Examples• + Why They Suck• How to Change Them

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3 Ingredients to Great Cold Emails

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Understand your buyer’s persona and their pain pointsKnow your space and investigate the competition

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Why are you special?Incentivize the conversation Prove you can add value

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Be creative with your conversations Are there non-sales reasons to talk?Ask about market research or customer success etc.

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The Email that Got 16 New Customers

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The First Sentence

• Question/Bold Statement

• Fear of Loss/Value

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The Value Story

• Social Proof• Numbers/Stats• Show, don’t tell value

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The Call to Action

• Incentivize• Specific time or

“When”?

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3x Your Qualified Leads with Salesfolk B2B Copywriting ConsultingHeather R Morgan | Salesfolk CEO| [email protected]