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Cold Calling 2.0

Replace cold calls with short, targeted emails to a named person, asking only for a referral to the right contact.

How it sounds

  1. You Send a short email to a named exec asking who the right person is, not for a meeting
  2. Buyer Forwards it to the right person, who now opens your email as an internal referral
  3. You Follow up with the forwarded contact, referencing the introduction
  4. Result You reach the right person with a warm-feeling open instead of a cold call

The rest of this entry is in the full archive

  • The exact short-email template Aaron Ross used to help build Salesforce's $100M outbound engine
  • Why asking for a referral, not a meeting, gets forwarded instead of deleted
  • How to build the specialized team structure the process depends on
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