Andrew Yeung is a former Meta and Google employee known for his extensive tech network. He says sending cold emails weekly expanded his network and secured high-profile job opportunities. His cold ...

Your prospect opens their inbox and there it is: A message from a stranger (aka your cold email). She reads the subject line and decides in a split second whether to open it or move it to trash (or ...

Stephanie Rich is Head of Platform at Bread and Butter Ventures, which accepts cold pitches. She shares an example email that's effective because it's short, customized, and eye-catching. Omitting ...

Yes, warm intros are the best way to approach investors and should ideally be your Plan A. But what if you can’t get one of those? As I’ve discussed in the past, cold emails can work well, too, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Esther Choy covers leadership with a focus on business storytelling. Networking has been described as “getting to rub elbows with ...

Most sales reps think cold email is broken. "Nobody reads cold emails anymore," they say. "Email is dead." They're wrong. What's broken isn't the channel — it's the approach. Apollo.io analyzed ...

Cold emails are intimidating — there’s no doubt about it. But at the same time, they can also be an effective tool, whether you’re trying to market a product or land a job. In today’s world, email is ...

The cold email is one of the great stress-inducing rituals of life, or at least my life. I’ve been known to delay writing an email for days, if not weeks or months, even to people that I like or know ...

I'm Head of Platform at Bread and Butter Ventures, an early stage venture fund where I work with our General Partners Mary Grove and Brett Brohl. The three of us all do open office hours that are ...