Email Outreach: How to Get Design Clients Using Cold Emails

Is E-mail Outreach a Waste of Time? Sending cold e-mails to get you graphic design clients for your design business can be very frustrating if you don't go into it with the right approach. In this video, I answer the question if you should use e-mail outreach to get you graphic design clients and how to structure your e-mail to get responses.
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Time Stamps
0:00 - Introduction
1:07 - Gurus Lie
1:29 - 5 Factors of an E-mail
2:33 - E-mail Statistics
3:20 - 7 Steps to Send Cold E-mails
4:33 - How to Write a Cold E-mail
7:29 - Subject Lines
7:57 - 2 Important Steps
8:46 - Who is Cold E-mailing for?
• Email Outreach: How to...
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[@4TheCreatives]

This was a much requested topic by many of you. Was this video helpful for you?

[@KINGELIASyt]

Yes! The video was super helpful. Never really sent a cold email, but I think I'll be trying this in the future

[@4TheCreatives]

@@KINGELIASyt Great! Yes try it out.

[@emproduction975]

Yes this video so helpful

[@jakirhossain5034]

Great content. You are awesome!

[@GrowWithWill]

Generic emails are probably going to be the death of your email marketing. Haha. Best to keep it personal, customized, and also relatable.

[@4TheCreatives]

Well put

[@anurag5852]

wow spot on

[@4TheCreatives]

Great thanks

[@jesusrios8184]

Helpful

[@designkida2023]

Thank you so much for this content and detailed explanation!

[@4TheCreatives]

Absolutely

[@shabbirdharwala2726]

Thank you for video.

[@4TheCreatives]

You are welcome

[@azadehmavizi8553]

Thank you Lauren, it was pretty helpful. 😀🌿

[@4TheCreatives]

Excellent

[@kingkingglassco1591]

Mrs. Gonzalez thank you very much This tutorial was so helpful

[@4TheCreatives]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TALCADOXGOfficial]

Thanku so much mam for giving us amazing content which is very fruitful to me as well as other viewers to ❤️❤️..........and for this video now i can write cold email is easy manner 😀......

[@4TheCreatives]

You are so welcome! I’m really glad that it helped you and I’d love to hear how it goes.

[@gosaiedu5431]

Thank you

[@4TheCreatives]

Absolutely

[@basarrahi8966]

it's really helpful. Mam

[@4TheCreatives]

Awesome

[@alinanaeem6003]

Thanks Lauren. This is quite helpful. The only problem that I am noticing these days is, that people have become a lot more sensitive when it comes to cold emails or DMs. This fact keeps me from cold reaching and annoying someone unintentionally 😅

[@4TheCreatives]

Hi Alina! Glad to help. Oh boy do I understand what you mean. It’s all about how you approach writing them. I get so many annoying emails and DMs that are written incorrectly. But then the few that feel genuine always elicit a response from myself. And I feel emails are less annoying as it’s not necessarily received on a phone. Something to think about! 😉

[@alinanaeem6003]

@@4TheCreatives yup, it makes more sense. I feel I have the skill of writing clear emails. Will definitely give it a try 😊

[@4TheCreatives]

@@alinanaeem6003 Great 👍

[@shehrymirza5615]

Good good 👍🏻

[@ky8designs]

I noticed that you added more cool transitions and it made the video quality very nice Lauren :D , but I have a question here : (I know that you are teaching us not to look spammy or general in the email as you want to make each company feel that this email is targeting them and try to solve their problem, but isn't that overwhelming to try to study each and every company and knowing their problems and how I am going to solve it? plus you said that percentage of getting respond is 1 to 5% so this can be very frustrating.)

[@4TheCreatives]

Thanks on noticing the editing 😊 So here is where knowing your niche can make your life super easier. Within a niche your emails can be not identical but similar to each other so you don’t have to reinvent every time. And the first several are going to take you a long time but you will get the hang of the research and start crafting much better emails. The low percentage is mainly for spammy emails. So you will get a higher percentage just by applying what you learned here. And if you do 10 per day as your outreach you will start getting responses by the end of the second week. And that will encourage you to keep going.

[@ky8designs]

@@4TheCreatives You are right, I think targeting that right companies with the right niche can help more. And as u mentioned, it is a learning curve and testing so it depends from one person to other. Thank you for your explanation. 🙏

[@4TheCreatives]

@@ky8designs exactly

[@dataiseternal3923]

Lauren, can you please make a review video of Mystrika. The tool seems quite affordable for cold email, looks decent at first look but not enough information in public domain.

[@4TheCreatives]

Never heard of it. Have you used it?

[@dataiseternal3923]

@@4TheCreatives I am on their smallest plan. UI is traditional, but it's looking good so far. An experts opinion will be greatly beneficial before I go all in.

[@4TheCreatives]

I’ll take a look

[@JWMCMLXXX]

100 a week! Damn. Alright, challenge accepted. Thats big. :D

[@4TheCreatives]

I believe in you!

[@khanali3315]

which is the best platform for send cold emails to get clients

[@4TheCreatives]

A work email address with your business domain.

[@qinpra]

Wondering what considered as "guru"?

[@4TheCreatives]

Someone who educates or consults others in a specific industry.

[@walkwithyani5649]

how to do research?

[@4TheCreatives]

I find that using Google, looking through blogs or even using ChatGPT4 are very helpful to gain insights into your ideal audience.

[@DailyDoseOfHam]

How do you not go directly to spam

[@4TheCreatives]

Avoid using spam trigger words and embedding links. Here’s a list of spam trigger word examples: www.activecampaign.com/blog/spam-words