{"id":901,"date":"2020-06-18T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiza.co\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2023-10-30T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T20:33:02","slug":"effective-cold-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiza.co\/blog\/effective-cold-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating an Effective Cold Email: How to Revive Outbound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reports of the death of cold email have been greatly exaggerated. 
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With inbound, social selling, fancy email marketing and more B2B events<\/a> than ever, cold email as a topic tends to gather dust. 
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Yes, most teams still use cold email. But it\u2019s not exactly seen as an area ripe for innovation. 
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Are some sales teams missing out on opportunities by sticking with the same, tired outbound strategy? Can sales and marketing teams update their process to create effective cold email?

The short answer is: yes and yes.
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Cold emailing<\/a> leads can be very effective. For brands set on rapid expansion, outbound emails are critical to reach a new target audience. But only if you do it right. 
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And creating effective cold emails is more difficult than it sounds. It\u2019s no longer sufficient to just scrape a list of 10,000 leads and copy\/paste the same message to all of them. You\u2019ll go right to the \u2018junk\u2019 folder and get discouraged on outbound efforts before you gain any momentum. 
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Cold email as a strategy is not dead. But plenty of cold emails are DOA \u2014 or before you even hit send<\/em>. 
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Here\u2019s how to know if your cold emails aren\u2019t going to work:
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