{"id":39961,"date":"2023-10-20T15:05:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/emailing-someone-cold-these-words-could-increase-your-odds-of-getting-a-response-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:05:29","slug":"emailing-someone-cold-these-words-could-increase-your-odds-of-getting-a-response-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/emailing-someone-cold-these-words-could-increase-your-odds-of-getting-a-response-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Emailing someone cold? These words could increase your odds of getting a response &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"312\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/emails-640x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"emails\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0days of the business \u201ccold call\u201d is coming to an end, with\u00a0\u201ccold emailing\u201d taking over as a way to make\u00a0new connections.<\/p>\n<p>This can be a successful tactic, but only if implemented correctly. Mistakes like getting a recipient\u2019s name wrong, or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/marketing\/79273-amazons-chief-technology-officer-received-pitch-product-email\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sending someone a pitch for their own product<\/a> can reflect poorly on you and your business.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/people-human-resources\/76147-virgin-airlines-turns-off-email-get-staff-away-screens-digital-detox-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more: Virgin Airlines \u201cturns off\u201d email to get staff away from screens \u2013 how to digital detox at work<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But provided you get the key details\u00a0in the email right, one\u00a0report shows that success in getting a response can boil down to how you sign off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/best-way-to-end-an-email-2017-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Business Insider<\/em> reports<\/a> that analysis from email application Boomerang has revealed the most successful email signoffs from over 350,000 emails analysed. The application picked out the top eight sign offs\u00a0which appeared over 1000 times, and tracked the percentage of replies the emails received back.<\/p>\n<p>From this it was revealed that the sign off \u201cthanks in advance\u201d had the highest rate of response, coming in at 65.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Next on the list was \u201cthanks\u201d at a response rate of 63%, and \u201cthank you\u201d at 57.9%. The remaining results are below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cCheers\u201d \u2013\u00a0response rate of 54.4%<\/li>\n<li>\u201cKind regards\u201d \u2013 response rate of 53.9%<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRegards\u201d \u2013 response rate of 53.5%<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBest regards\u201d \u2013 response rate of 52.9%<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBest\u201d \u2013 response rate of 51.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The average response rate for all emails analysed was 47.5%. No data on the content was gathered, so the nature of the emails is left unknown. This is worth noting, because it might mean these findings don\u2019t extend to emails you exchange with\u00a0your boss or important clients.<\/p>\n<h3>Think before you send<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the desire for fast responses, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/people-human-resources\/professional-development\/39050-email-etiquette-and-the-perils-of-reply-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a piece from <em>Harvard Business Review<\/em> by Ron Ashkenas<\/a> warns quick emailers should\u00a0take a moment to think before responding to messages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s email culture encourages instantaneous responses. To keep up, we often reply without thinking. If we did this in personal interactions, most of us probably wouldn\u2019t have any friends,\u201d Ashkenas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you sense one of these situations building, it\u2019s often best to either not respond at all or wait a few minutes to see if what\u2019s brewing is an argument or a worthwhile conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, remember that emails often convey emotion and are actually a reflection of your personality. Think about how you want to be perceived, and whether your email personality is consistent with your real personality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/business-advice\/82550-cold-emailing-best-sign-offs-make-sure-get-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SmartCompany<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StartUpSmart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StartupSmartnow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/startupsmart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/starting-change-podcast\/id1154324497?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0days of the business \u201ccold call\u201d is coming to an end, with\u00a0\u201ccold emailing\u201d taking over as a way to make\u00a0new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}