Then I again began sending emails, texts
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 4:27 am
Then I again began sending emails, texts and Facebook messages to the people on this list and updated their status back in my Excel tracking sheet as I heard back.
Here’s what those emails looked like with a couple of friends. Matt is a hobbyist adventure photographer and we used to work together at CreativeLive. Charbel is an entrepreneur that shares a lot of the same interests as me, so I knew they’d both be a good fit.
I’m friends with both of these guys, but didn’t feel like texting was as appropriate for something like this, so I went with email based on gut feeling—I didn’t want them to feel too pressured to respond if they didn’t want to.
Notice again how my outreach emails are custom tailored to each person and afghanistan phone number database a mutual interest we have or reference our last conversation. I’m not copying and pasting my elevator pitch template and you shouldn’t either.
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Here’s a pitch I made over Facebook messages to an old friend of mine, Randi who’s now a photographer in Southern California.
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My response rate was by far the highest when I texted people. 19 of the 20 people I texted got back to me with a yes or no. Email has been the second most effective (feels more like a work-related task) and Facebook messages have been by far the least effective (people often forget about their Facebook messages or don’t frequently log in).
I recommend going with texting people as your primary outreach medium to build your early feedback group.
47 email subscribers.
I’m now up to 47 people who are interested in getting updates on my hiking & adventure California website. I’m going to keep going until I’ve reached out to all 100 people I flagged on my prospect list.
Since several of the friends I’ve reached out to are photographers, a few of them proactively offered up letting me borrow some of their equipment to help document the hikes I’m planning to go on because they liked this idea so much. They want to be part of what I’m planning on building in some way.
Here’s what those emails looked like with a couple of friends. Matt is a hobbyist adventure photographer and we used to work together at CreativeLive. Charbel is an entrepreneur that shares a lot of the same interests as me, so I knew they’d both be a good fit.
I’m friends with both of these guys, but didn’t feel like texting was as appropriate for something like this, so I went with email based on gut feeling—I didn’t want them to feel too pressured to respond if they didn’t want to.
Notice again how my outreach emails are custom tailored to each person and afghanistan phone number database a mutual interest we have or reference our last conversation. I’m not copying and pasting my elevator pitch template and you shouldn’t either.
validate-business-idea-email-reach-out
Here’s a pitch I made over Facebook messages to an old friend of mine, Randi who’s now a photographer in Southern California.
validate-a-business-idea-randi-slusher-fb-message
My response rate was by far the highest when I texted people. 19 of the 20 people I texted got back to me with a yes or no. Email has been the second most effective (feels more like a work-related task) and Facebook messages have been by far the least effective (people often forget about their Facebook messages or don’t frequently log in).
I recommend going with texting people as your primary outreach medium to build your early feedback group.
47 email subscribers.
I’m now up to 47 people who are interested in getting updates on my hiking & adventure California website. I’m going to keep going until I’ve reached out to all 100 people I flagged on my prospect list.
Since several of the friends I’ve reached out to are photographers, a few of them proactively offered up letting me borrow some of their equipment to help document the hikes I’m planning to go on because they liked this idea so much. They want to be part of what I’m planning on building in some way.