Properly Working Leads

[mikecarlooch]

Hey everyone, I wanted to create this thread for 2 reasons.

1. To ask a question and get answers

2. Because I think what I did in this post is something a lot of people also do, but shouldn't.

Over the past few weeks I've reached out to thousands of leads that I found manually on the internet. A lot of the people on this list are the exact types of qualified buyers that I'd like to sell to, but I feel like I made a massive mistake with this list.

I sent basically the exact same email to all of these people in a direct response marketing fashion with only 2 or 3 words personalized.

First of all, I didn't know that Gmail would penalize my account for sending a couple hundred cold e-mails per day.

Second of all, I feel like if I had taken, I don't know, 6 minutes per e-mail, as opposed to 6 seconds, personalizing each, and sending 50 e-mails per day as opposed to hundreds..

My open rates and response rates would've been much higher, and the email I was sending from wouldn't be sent to spam.

The part I'm beating myself up for though is - even though this campaign did well for me and I did get clients, I feel like I messed it up with this list of people who, what I'm selling is clearly important to them. I feel like by not personalizing and taking time with each person, I will never get the full benefits of this awesome list I built.

I also feel it's gotten harder to find those same types of people now that i've e-mailed everyone I can find in those locations (I know this is a limiting belief)

A couple of questions -

1. How do you guys go about properly working a lead list in a way that's time efficient but still personalized?

2. How would you guys go about using this list even though I've reached out to them basically in a spam fashion? (or should I just move on to a new one?) I also did the same type of copy and paste for follow-ups, which I also feel hasn't worked in my favor.


Thanks guys
-Mike

 

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[mikecarlooch]

E muv ug dumf ineom vuumt iyotv vu jimq eavunevi xjomi neopveopoph qistupemobevoup.
Emiy Cisnep up ZuaVaci ot tuniupi xju emxezt vemlt ecuav teof vuumt.

Gummux aq xovj e qjupi demm (og quttocmi, xjodj 99% ug vji voni, ov emxezt ot).
Og zua giim moli zua deni ugg et e tqennis, janepobi vjiti opvisedvoupt cz tqieloph vu vjin moli vji janep ciopht zua cuvj esi.

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