Baird Hall advises using cold emails strictly to ask permission to sell
Baird Hall · Wavve Hits 9k For Audio Video Tool, $70k Monthly Profits! · Aug 19, 2020 · at 10:10
Baird Hall, co-founder of Wavve, breaks down his cold outreach philosophy and how founders should structure initial contact with prospects.
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“So my approach for cold email is I keep the initial outreach very short and I usually try to start with an opening question that I All I'm trying to do is invite a conversation. Like I'm not even trying to get them to do anything in that first email. All I'm really doing is trying to get permission to sell them something they might be interested in.”
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