Cold emailing. It’s kind of like cold calling, but without the really scary part where you have to talk to a live person and get rejected. Sometimes over and over again. Hiding behind an email may feel safer, but it’s less likely to get a response, especially if it’s not done right.
Cold email
I got a cold email today from a company that wanted me to hire them as a publicist. It started with “To whom it may concern”. Okay, already I’m going to delete it, but not before checking out their site. This is already more homework than they did on me. It just takes a few extra minutes to at least look through someone’s site before contacting them, especially when you’re asking someone to spend $5,000 a month.
If they had looked through my site they would have seen that I have quite a lot of PR already and just by Googling swiggies and publicity. My Linked In info comes up on my page along with the title of “publicist”. [Read more…] about To Whom it May Concern – Cold Emailing