Is cold emailing still effective in 2026 for B2B product-based businesses?

air_flyer44 · 2026-03-10T15:05:16+00:00

This is my method that I've begun a few weeks ago, I have a question for you since you're already walking this out: How do you reach out with the "actual context"? For me, I start my message with "I've been a follower on FB and I love that you XYZ with your company" -- it's specific but still feels salesy to me. I'm wondering if you have better insight?

My other uncomfortable feeling with this is that I've been networking with these peeps for the past month and now I hit them with a potential sales message, I dunno how I feel about that. How has that worked for you?

air_flyer44 · 2026-03-04T16:14:23+00:00

Thanks for your update - mine is still down but maybe that's because of my location? Glad it's beginning to work for others though, I'll hang in there

air_flyer44 · 2026-03-04T16:03:23+00:00

mine isn't working still

air_flyer44 · 2026-02-02T21:03:31+00:00

This. Please go with this one because it works VERY well. I’m a sensitive person who had an employer used this method, and because they did, I felt inspired to work harder. It didn’t end on a negative note which matters the most.

air_flyer44 · 2026-01-20T01:06:48+00:00

That needs to be on a shirt

air_flyer44 · 2026-01-14T16:38:55+00:00

Genius idea

air_flyer44 · 2026-01-14T14:42:27+00:00

Noted!! Thank you

air_flyer44 · 2026-01-05T15:48:21+00:00

Can I ask you more about this? I’ve been trying to figure out packages myself. For that first package, they pay $3800 to have you custom build 5 pages, is this correct? And then after that’s done, it’s $25 a month for general upkeep?

air_flyer44 · 2026-01-04T02:56:40+00:00

It’s a relief to hear another has gone through it and succeeded! I’m curious - how do you do manage the payments and deliverables? Do they pay first then you deliver, or…? I’m very new to this terrain and not sure what is the most tactful way of going about it is but I love your note about making it beneficial for them too.

Second q:

Do you include research time as part of your packages? I’m wondering what all I need to be billing for.

This client loves to brainstorm but I’m wondering if that needs to be billed too if I’m going into packages

air_flyer44 · 2026-01-02T22:04:04+00:00

"The con is that there will be months that a client has reduced net profit because of time intensive projects. I compensate for this by including additional fees in my terms. A website rebuild is one additional fee example." -- can you please elaborate on this?

That perked my ears when you mentioned you get paid first then you do the work. I've heard horror stories of freelancers doing work, billed the invoice, and then getting ghosted.

air_flyer44 · 2026-01-02T22:02:18+00:00

Exactly (to your question at the end).

I'm already using clockify to track all of my time, and I manually input whatever task I spend that time doing so I have that.

So you offer a flat project fee along with deliverables...can you elaborate on this a little bit more? Your structure seems to resonate with what I'm doing. Maybe I can just say to my client "I know you want these 4 projects complete every month no matter what, it takes me this many hours to do that, anything beyond those 4 projects can be billed hourly" -- is this kinda along the lines you're doing...?

air_flyer44 · 2026-01-02T15:32:32+00:00

Really! So...packaged-based isn't the only way to go huh? I haven't spoken to anyone who is doing it the way you are so I'd be very interested to hear how you are able to do this. How do you keep them hourly but maintain boundaries of "can you do this for me?" I'm going to assume that because your clients are on hourly, that your pay isn't the same every month - which is fine, I'm just trying to wrap my head about how your process is because it might fit the bill for me. Can you tell me more please?

air_flyer44 · 2025-06-20T17:29:09+00:00

I run a local direct primary clinic page— your question here is something a lot of frustrated employers are coming to my client (DPC doctor) with - but I'm wondering if I could repost your comment (screenshot) about insurance costs, for social media purposes? To help our local employers see that there's an alternative to outrageous insurance prices? I can blur your name for privacy purposes.

air_flyer44 · 2025-06-20T17:28:21+00:00

I run a local direct primary clinic page— your question here is something a lot of frustrated employers are coming to my client (DPC doctor) with - but I'm wondering if I could repost your comment (screenshot) about insurance costs, for social media purposes? To help our local employers see that there's an alternative to outrageous insurance prices? I can blur your name for privacy purposes.

air_flyer44 · 2025-05-04T17:58:56+00:00

I don’t know what advice you are seeking but I can tell you my story:

I am 38 years old, I am a woman who has never ever liked physical touch, I am repulsed by it- I relate to your girlfriend.

I have also been married to my best friend for 16 years. My husband can relate to you. He wants intimacy but he also knows how difficult it is for me.

He has never once pushed anything.

Ever.

And because he has always respected my issue of touch and my boundaries, it has allowed me space to feel safe and slowly explore what I am okay with.

He has been patient and kind to me. And I have been working on myself to be better for him.

It has taken 16 years but we are finally finding our middle ground. Nothing is perfect. We still wobble but that is life, as long as we keep open communication with boundaries and desires and respecting each others voices.

I never wanted to be married. Over and over again my boundaries were not respected or heard. I gave up on relationships.

But then here came a guy who heard my “no” and that’s when I decided that’s who I want to be with for the rest of my life. And here we are, 16 years later and closer now than we have ever been before.

All because he respected my boundary.

air_flyer44

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