Professional Documents
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Codex 2
Codex 2
Combotron
sentence that took you 4 hours total in the day to compose them all.
Unlearn everything you know about cold outreach — any rules of thumb or
Speak calmly and write casually — audio being overly needy and deferential.
Coordinate touch points no more than two days apart until you get an answer.
Lead with the phone. If you connect, ask who’s in charge of whatever they are in
If you get a voicemail, lead with your name and number. Tell them you have a
Email immediately after the first phone call. Reply to this email for the next two
days if no answer. First reply bump: thoughts? Second: get creative with a
diagram or GIF.
Assumptive but gentle CTA. Include tapout “If it makes sense, how’s your
calendar?”.
After 3rd email, repeat this process again 2 days later with a different angle.
If you notice any multiple opens, profile views, forwarded messages: triple or
quadruple down — call, voicemail, email, LinkedIn connect (Twitter, other social if
applicable).
Do this with 3-5 people in the org at a time for C-level, ups, directors.
If this doesn’t work after 2 weeks, swap or pivot to someone else in the org
laterally.