{"id":1689,"date":"2016-01-12T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salesfolk.com\/blog\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2016-01-14T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T01:39:40","slug":"why-vague-follow-up-emails-dont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesfolk.com\/blog\/why-vague-follow-up-emails-dont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Extremely Vague Follow Up Emails Don\u2019t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cold Email Hall of Shame Award: The Extremely Vague Follow Up Email<\/h3>\n

This email is hilarious in that it tries to land a meeting with the prospect while giving <\/span>literally no information<\/span><\/i>. \u00a0It begins with a blatantly erroneous sentence — and asks the prospect for a meeting to chat about something he or she is completely uninformed about. \u00a0Assuming the recipient never saw your previous emails (if you did send them), then how would he or she know what the meeting is about, or who is sending this email to them? <\/span><\/p>\n

Although the sender tries their best to assume familiarity, it\u2019s pretty obvious that they\u2019re still a<\/span> complete stranger.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Why do they assume that the reader will want to schedule a call to \u201cchat\u201d with someone they don\u2019t know anything about or trust. <\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the \u201cCraigslist personals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This thoughtless email is is obnoxious and is likely to piss people off and get them to hit the spam button.<\/p>\n

Why this email fails and got on \u201cThe Hall of Shame\u201d:<\/h3>\n