What's the difference between a good cold email and a spam cold email customization .
Sending a relevant message to a person that is likely to buy .
If you customize , if you personalize your emails , then you don't have to worry about GDP R .
You don't have to worry about spam complaints because it'll seem like you are one person reaching out to another person that works for a business that would be likely to respond to you .
And one of the easiest ways to personalize that message is through a custom first line .
We've talked about the five parts of a cold email on this channel and you can watch a video that goes over a perfect cold email template later .
But to recap , those five parts are subject line , first line complement case study called the action email signature .
So in today's video , I wanted to deep dive on part two of the email on the first line .
What goes into a custom first line , what goes into those email compliments and how do you ensure that your emails are personalized enough to avoid the spam box ?
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So I'm about to show you the custom first line and of course , you can't write 100 cold emails per day .
If you're writing every single one from scratch and spending hours on each one , it just would not be possible .
There's not enough time in the day .
But what you can do is create a good personalized email template and customize the first line to reach directly to that specific prospect .
And that's what I want to show you in today's video .
We're not writing our cold emails from scratch and handcrafting every word because in our testing , those tend to either perform exactly at the same level or sometimes even underperform emails that follow a good strategy , a good framework .
However , a cold email with a custom first line will outperform a standard generic email template by 10 times or more .
So , mastering that little bit of personalization is key for improving your cold email campaigns in general .
So let's start by going through the million dollar cold email template that we reference inside the book cold email manifesto .
Here's the email subject quick question .
Hi , Jackson .
Been following Fuzz for a while and love your work .
Awesome job with Rockefeller Center .
I specialize in finding new clients for web and app developers .
Recently we helped Dom and Tom an N Y C based developer bring on mcdonald's and close an extra $1 million in six months .
Can you take on more clients at Fuzz ?
Let me know and I can send over a few times to chat .
Thanks , Alex .
And here you can see the parts of the cold email , the subject line , custom compliment one sentence , case study and what we're talking about today , the call to action and then the email signature is down here .
So let's write a few cold email first lines and I'll show you how it's done .
Let's start with Taylor Welch .
The place that I like to go to , right .
These cold email first lines is linked in and there's a reason for it .
I'm starting to get addicted to the amount of money that can be made on linkedin and I'm I'm loving it .
I love linkedin .
So Taylor Welch , how would this cold email ?
Look , let me find one thing to compliment him on consultant next door .
Let me talk about this book .
He's written a book .
Let's talk about the book .
Hey , Taylor been following you for a while and I loved consultant next door .
The reason why I said this been following you for a while is if somebody's creating content and they've released a book that has 100 and 13 reviews like he's talking about here , that means he has an audience .
And the best way to butter him up is to pretend to be a member of that audience .
If you really wanted to appeal to him as well .
Omni channel style , anybody that creates content , you wanna make sure you're following them on Twitter or following them wherever they are next up , we have Alma Mala Group digital Director at Wave Maker .
So now we need to find something to compliment her on .
She is the group digital director at wave Maker and I'm not seeing much from her linkedin .
So let me look at Wave Maker itself and try to find some company news or something how Wave maker India became the most wanted media agency .
There's a news article from C NBC .
Three weeks ago .
Wave maker , Canada names CEO .
So I know two things or three things actually about wave maker .
One , the Canada branch has a new CEO two wave maker .
India became the most wanted media agency and three wave maker is a big enough company to have offices in all of these different places with different CEO S et cetera .
So they're a giant corporation .
So now with that in mind , let's write this first line for Alma .
Hey Alma , huge fan of wave maker saw the feature in C NBC and knew I had to reach out .
That's the second example .
Now let's do another one .
This is Sam Yam co-founder at Patreon Y CE at Y Combinator .
And he's the CTO which means we want to compliment him if we can about something related to the technology side of things .
So let's do that .
Hey Sam , big fan of all your work following Patreon for a long time now and I love how scalable and stable the code base has stayed beautiful tech guys .
You see that I'll be like , is he joking or if he is actually very confident in his work , he'll take it as a compliment .
So it's either a joke or a compliment , either way you're in .
So to review our three first lines that we came up with where , hey Taylor been following you for a while and I loved consultant next door .
Epic Reed .
Hey Alma , a huge fan of wave makers saw the feature in C NBC and knew I had to reach out and hey , Sam , I'm a big fan of all your work following Patreon for a long time now .
And I love how scalable and stable the code base has stayed .
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I'm Alex Berman .