Transform cold outreach into a warm outreach with one step

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    Corey Quinn

    Founder, Deep Specialization™

    Send a unique, striking gift that leaves an impression before you reach out.

    Why does outbound fail so often?

    Because for many, going outbound means peppering your target leads with a persistent sequence of cold emails, cold calls, and cold LinkedIn InMails.

    Whether your target audience is attorneys, B2B manufacturing companies, or schools, they're receiving 5-10 cold outreaches (calls, emails, etc.) per day from firms just like yours. 

    To your target leads, they are a nuisance and are often simply ignored.

    Why?

    Because these outreaches are cold. 🥶

    There isn't an existing relationship between you and the target lead. 💔

    There's no familiarity, no history, and no trust to build off of at all. 😱

    But what if you could transform your cold outreach into a warm outreach?

    This is where gifts come in.

    As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've sent literally millions of dollars of cookies to qualified target leads as a first touch.

    It works.

    At my last company, we grew the business from $20M to $40M (and later to $150M) just by adding gift-based outbound to our sales and marketing programs.

    But you can't just send any old trinket in the mail and expect to transform your outbound program.

    A gift that warms up your target lead needs to meet three criteria:

    • It must be unique

    • It must be striking

    • It must leave an impression

    Don’t just send them a cheap pen with your logo on it. 

    Instead, send them something that will likely interrupt their day in a positive way and communicates you understand them and their vertical market.

    Have a great weekend!

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    About Corey Quinn

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    Corey helps founder-led agencies scale through Deep Specialization™ and programmatic M&A. Former CMO of Scorpion ($20M to $200M). Author of "Anyone, Not Everyone."

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