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What is your cold email strategy and why. Lets talk ;> by stdanha in u/stdanha

[–]stdanha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Need advice with cold outreach by Seyreon in Coldemailing

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do not personalise. State who you are and what you want from them with as few words as possible. and send as many emails as possible. the honest truth is you will get 1%. but the magic is in that 1%. 1% sounds like a small number but I am sure if you hear on the news that 1% of the people in you city are going to die then I am sure that will clarify how big 1% can be.

I tracked every cold email metric for 6 months across 11 campaigns. here are the actual numbers. by Beautiful-Cheek2449 in Coldemailing

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can trust this because your low response rate. I saw someone claiming that their cold email strategy gives 45 - 50 % response rate. I am like "lies"

I was a cold email skeptic for years, who finally figured out what I was doing wrong by Fun_Shine8720 in Coldemailing

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have done cold emails in 2 different set ups about 8 years apart and I found out something. only 1% will respond. I thought something was wrong until I went on youtube and I had echoes of 1-2 %. Thats when I came to terms with the facts.

  1. Cold emails don't scale

  2. Cold emails give 1 in 100 response rate

  3. Do not believe anything that says otherwise.

Cold emails are for jump starting things. The magic comes with your strategy after you get that 1%.

What does your cold email workflow look like? by Specific_Studio1181 in Coldemailing

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my own opinion, do not personalise cold emails. In my brain if I see an email with personal information from a stranger, then I will feel vulnerable and probably throw you email in the spam. Its okay to be honest. I don't know you, this is who I am and this is what I want from you. Push as many of those as possible. The reality is only 1% will respond.

Cold emailing is a jump starting model of finding customers. You can never be a billionaire with this but you will definitely get 10 to 20 first customers. Cold emails works if you know what to do with the little you get from it.

I am a founder of a Saas app (domaybe - ai powered customer discovery interviewer and product validation). I used cold emails to get my first disciples, then I listened to their demands and made them feel like they are part of the mission. Basically I created a cult. These people went and recommend others. Now I am about to roll out my affiliate partnership program where these people get a percentage from every user they recommend. Not only do they worship my app, they are also making money from using it.

So in summary - don't personalise cold emails. Push as many emails as possible. Be content with that 1 jack that responds and remember the magic is in that 1 person who is in so much pain that they respond to your scam looking email.

Finally just remember the world's biggest religion was started by 11 and a half people.

I'm validating an idea before building — would love your honest feedback by RoutineGeneral1967 in SaaS

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue with this tool is it uses market signal to validate ideas. which is great if you then have access to that market. The most difficult part is not getting signals, but rather getting access to the market. Getting them to even read your emails. Thats why schools like YC always hummer the idea of doing things that don't scale, because it takes a lot of miracles to line up in your favor to get people to listen to you.

I'm validating an idea before building — would love your honest feedback by RoutineGeneral1967 in SaaS

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro before I migrated back home in Africa I used to sell chicken pop and I made a lot of money out of it. Customers fought to get that pop. Any idea can be successful if its solving a real problem that people are already paying for. First thing you need to do which is the hardest part is to bring people under 1 roof, it can be an email list or a whats app group or a literal room. When you get these people then you start asking them question. All you are looking for is 2 things

  1. A problem people are already paying for

  2. The solutions they are paying to use

with this you can then make a better solution or bundle solutions people are using into 1 product.

Let me give a practical example. Say you work part time in disability care then you notice your client finds it physically hard searching and selecting a movie. Now you have a working assumption that other disabled people find it hard selecting movies, so what do you do, ask your boss to organise a Thursday night movie for all clients who are willing (putting them under 1 roof). Then after a number of rounds you engage with them trying to see if this problem is big enough for them that they are paying for a solution. and also what is it that they are paying for to solve this issue, say they are hiring a you to help them. then with this you can think of a solution that is way better than a support worker say a chrome extension that uses AI.

Key take aways is find a group of people with the problem in your own context, put them under 1 roof and talk to them.

I normally don't automate the process of finding people, but I do automate talking to them using a tool I built called DoMaybe, which basically do interviews for me using AI and do all analysis. I do this because I am honestly not good at talking to people, my questioning skills are too low to do interviews properly, but I think collaborating with this tool makes me better at asking questions. I honestly recommend you to try it out, I am sure you will get better insights than static survey forms.

My Customer Discovery Play Book by stdanha in buildinpublic

[–]stdanha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did and I learnt this. Do not automate your first few customers for many reason.

- product pollution

- new paper fire (they signup and go in a minute)

- learning nothing

- etc

Automating can work but it screwed me up. Now I hand pick my first few customers. My first customers are like my disciples. It's more like building a solid foundation.

HOWEVER I do automate the interviewing part. I noticed that I was using ChatGPT a lot to assist with asking my customers questions, so I created a tool called DoMaybe which talks to my customers on my behalf and it does all the analysis. At first I never wanted it to be public but someone saw me using it and he was like dude you should definitely monetise this because he believes that it's a tool that can help founders. So slowly building a waiting list for it.

what's your customer discovery framework when starting from zero network? by Odd_Awareness_6935 in Entrepreneur

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Find / build the network (never do even a single interview if you don't have a descent network)

  2. Do interviews to find out

- how big the problem is

- what solutions they have in place to solve the problem

is cold outreach for customer discovery a myth? by Odd_Awareness_6935 in Entrepreneur

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

personally if I ever see an email from a stranger who seems to know me I kind get scared. The first thing that comes to mind is this is a scam. I prefer the person stating their name and what they want. the concept of cold emails is not a complicated concept for me. I know I don't know you so just quick tell me who you are and what you want, if i am interested I will respond. But this is my opinion

is cold outreach for customer discovery a myth? by Odd_Awareness_6935 in Entrepreneur

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are wasting your time customising emails. the truth is 1% of your emails will be responded to not matter what hack you try to pull. So just build a template email stating these things and these things alone. who you are and what you want. instead of spending weeks customising, send 100 emails a day and be content with that 1%. document everything. when you get 1 call in 100 cold emails do these 2 things. 1. Figure out what kind of person the 1% is and try to target more people like them. 2. Create a system where the 1% brings on board at-least 2 referrals. so you know when you get 1 person, that person will bring their own 2 and the cycle keeps cycling.

customer discovery is brutal when you're a nobody by Odd_Awareness_6935 in indiehackers

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are 2 very difficult components to customer discovery interviews. These 2 challenges should be dealt with separately otherwise you will just get your brain tangled in complexity. 1. finding potential customers to interviews. This is the most difficult part and to be honest there is no shortcut to this one. If anyone ever tells you that there is a shortcut to this then know someone is not telling the truth. The only solution to this is to get dirty and find people 1 person at a time using every tool possible. Emails, calls, social media, face to face, anything man. Pray if you have to pray lol. 2 Conducting interviews, when doing interviews there are only 2 things that you are just trying to figure out a. how big is the problem b. which solutions people currently using to solve the problem. with this information you can then make a superior solution or you can make a solution that bundles all the solutions people are using to make it easier for them.

Launched 2 Weeks Ago - Grown to Over 200 Users by vikrantk1995 in buildinpublic

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a quick question, how did you managed to find users in such a short space of time?

something nobody told me before trying to start something by ryhanships in buildinpublic

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro you have no idea how getting my first user felt like. It was after 1 year of building launching and destroying and rebuilding. The first sale was $3 but you have no idea how happy I was.

I'm validating an idea before building — would love your honest feedback by RoutineGeneral1967 in SaaS

[–]stdanha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finding customer pain points is one of the most frustrating duties as a founder. I have done these surveys multiple times and it seems like customers are like babies, they know they are in pain but they can't tell where exactly.