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surprised you never gave an example of a frigid ice cold polar bear kind of cold email.

could you drop one in the comments here?

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Sure. I'll help as my company does cold email as a service.

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Hey Bold,

Saw your HN question about an example of an "ice cold polar bear kind of email."

I write emails like this all day for companies like Boldslogan. Would be happy to walk your through it in 10 or 12 minutes.

Zoom on Tuesday or Wed?

C

FWIW this sort of email triggers my immediate shutdown reactions in several ways: use of "Hey" greeting from some unknown non-friend, general (albeit here not total) avoidance of first-person pronouns[1], phony-baloney specificity in time and duration for an initial meeting.

[1] "Saw your email," "Would love to hear more"--no, avoiding "I" does not make the writer appear stronger.

It doesn't work all the time, but it works well enough.

Nice! You got me to check out your website :)

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