strategy Share your creative outbound emails

Mine is always short:

Subject line: whatever.com domain name

Hi Joe,

Please let me know if your're interested to buy the whatever.com domain name.

Best regards,
My First Name
My signature (real physical address, real phone number, website)

If they are interested, they always reply.

However, I do follow up if my email tracking software (Contact Monkey) reports multiple email openings.

EVEN if they seems interested, the deal is far from done: I had a real case last year, when a guy from US send me this reply:

Buyer: Hi, yes, I am very interested, please let me know how I can buy this domain.
Me: You can buy the domain from Undeveloped, GoDaddy, Afternic. (I always present options to the buyer. It create confidence, and the buyer feels more comfortable).
Buyer: OK, please send me the Afternic link, I purchased a domain name there before, and I trust them.
Me: OK, please find below the Afternic link.

Then nothing. No purchase, complete silence. After 2 weeks I send another email to the guy, asking what is going on. His reply:

Sorry, I am not interested, and I really don't don't remember why I told you I want to buy this domain.

alienbaba said:

Hi Person,

I offer you a domain that is suitable for this project. Matter of fact, I think it’s perfect as it ticks all the boxes in the requirements you stated.

Unslain.com - $XXXXXX

unslain (ʌnˈsleɪn)
not killed or cut down.



Relevance to your requirements:

Being unslain strengthens hope of overcoming the next obstacle, making you excited about the future.
For eternity, you were never killed, so your DNA keeps living on, passing down every branch of your family tree.
Through scrapbooking, we can time travel through your history and witness the unslain legacy you left behind to bring us joy.



Requirement keywords:
Hope, Excited about the Future, Eternity, Living on, Family tree, Scrapbooking, Time travel, Legacy, Joy.



Unslain is a word that denotes legacy. It has a classical feeling and is usually found in historical texts describing heroic figures and deities. It is a synonym of undefeated.

It has a lot of potential use across niches like gaming, film, apparel, history etc. It is on par with words such as ancestry, legacy, monarchy.

I hope you like it. The price is very negotiable. To the success of this project.


Kind Regards,

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Thanks for sharing, @alienbaba.

Just to clarify, which requirements are you referring to here? When would the potential buyer have stated them to you?

Joe Nichols said:

Thanks for sharing, @alienbaba.

Just to clarify, which requirements are you referring to here? When would the potential buyer have stated them to you?

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The requirements were a dictionary .COM domain which denotes/represents some of these:

Hope, Excited about the Future, Eternity, Living on, Family tree, Scrapbooking, Time travel, Legacy, Joy.

I tried to overdo it and use the the words in chronological order to form a story, so I can seem poetic and interest the buyer because I was bored lol.

This is how you become a successful multi-business owner.

Applies to calls as well.

Randolph said:

This is how you become a successful multi-business owner.

Applies to calls as well.

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I agree that any outbound has to be done in a unique and targeted way, blanketing people with hundreds of generic emails (or phone calls) I believe is the very definition of spamming.

PS: somebody needs to make @frank-germany understand that exploring different options and brainstorming to find the best solutions is different than giving advice.

IMO

oldtimer said:

I agree that any outbound has to be done in a unique and targeted way, blanketing people with hundreds of generic emails (or phone calls) I believe is the very definition of spamming.

PS: somebody needs to make @frank-germany understand that exploring different options and brainstorming to find the best solutions is different than giving advice.

IMO

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The very definition of spamming.

No decision maker is sitting next to the phone (or email) waiting for you to dial the number that you randomly found using some tool.

This is the reason we see people with 200+ attempts and only 1-2 answers. This conversion rate is, solely, pure laziness, inexperience, and bad business acumen.

PS: Let the two be, let them spam email, phone, and this forum.

There are plenty of people here giving our real experiences, no need to worry about the few that don't truly work with outbound sales. I see through it, I know others do, too.

Some people can't/won't be helped, are intimidated by others that are more knowledgeable and successful than them, and will always blame the world for their lack of self-reflection. (This is essentially the basis of the book I am publishing this year, entitled Self-Sabotage.)

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This is how you become a successful multi-business owner.

Applies to calls as well.

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come on
that is as fake as it can get

100 cold outbound is sending just a few
10 cold outbound is just a little less

its impossible to have 80% conversion
consistently on 10 outbound emails

which cloud on the blue sky
are you living on?

frank-germany said:

come on
that is as fake as it can get

100 cold outbound is sending just a few
10 cold outbound is just a little less

its impossible to have 80% conversion
consistently on 10 outbound emails

which cloud on the blue sky
are you living on?

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You're getting hung up on the details.

You can't possibly believe that random cold contact isn't exponentially worse than putting in a tiny bit of effort.

oldtimer said:

I agree that any outbound has to be done in a unique and targeted way, blanketing people with hundreds of generic emails (or phone calls) I believe is the very definition of spamming.

PS: somebody needs to make @frank-germany understand that exploring different options and brainstorming to find the best solutions is different than giving advice.

IMO

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the topic here is
share-your-creative-outbound-emails

and not
what-do-think-is-a-great-outbound-email-and-how-successfull-do-you-think-you-could-be

Randolph said:

You're getting hung up on the details.

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exactly

as thats what makes all the difference

that cold outbound sold the name:

(I had to send about 400 closely targeted emails)

I was asking $1400 USD

frank-germany said:

the topic here is
share-your-creative-outbound-emails

and not
what-do-think-is-a-great-outbound-email-and-how-successfull-do-you-think-you-could-be

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If the OP says that then I agree, but I don't think that you should try to stand in the way of learning and progress by forcing this issue.

Many times a thread evolves to be more than what it started as and it's up to the OP and the mods to decide what's okay to post here and not you.

IMO

oldtimer said:

If the OP says that then I agree, but I don't think that you should try to stand in the way of learning and progress by forcing this issue.

Many times a thread evolves to be more than what it started as and it's up to the OP and the mods to decide what's okay to post here and not you.

IMO

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give me some examples of what worked for you, please

frank-germany said:

(I had to send about 400 closely targeted emails)

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400 emails are not what is considered to be closely targeted outbounding.

You might get a few good results by spamming but you shouldn't be recommending it to others.

IMO

It might be helpful to keep in mind, now that a number of pages in, how Joe defined this thread in his opening. I added the bold. I interpret that more broadly than some, I guess.

Joe Nichols said:

I would love to make this thread a central resource for inspired ideas of how to grab the attention of a potential buyer with a well-written opening email. Members like @Ali have shared personalized intros in the past, and I know many found it incredibly helpful.

So post your original email creations, and let's give constructive feedback to one another on how to improve our email writing skills.

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So if the broader interpretation is right (Joe please correctly me if your intention was the only ones who should contribute are those who have done extensive outbound emails, have kept careful records of success, and are reporting on that only), I would like to thank all who have contributed.

I wonder if the following idea might be helpful to consider. Think about emails, or calls, that we have received in any field. Did any of those communications stick out for us, or were effective in starting a conversation around a product or service? If so, what did that caller do. I will be honest, I can't think of a single inbound call that I viewed as positive. Ever. But hopefully some of you have more positive experiences, and if so, I hope we can extract what it is that made those good.

One line that stuck out from attending NamesCon last year was this hopefully remembered accurately from a presentation by someone who had sold millions in domains in the previous year. "The days of cold calling are long over."

What about emails, more on topic of this thread? What emails stood out for you, or were effective in leading you to buy something? For me, there were a few, and I would say what they had were the following features:

• they offered something that I legitimately might want,
• it seemed like a good deal,
• the design was both professional and engaging (like graphically nice),
• the key parts of the terms were clear (like from email itself I knew how to do the purchase and what it would cost, or a very simple extra click),
• they did not over promise (this will change your life....)
• they were not too long, and
• they came from a business that I trusted or had dealt with previously.

I realize it is impossible, or near it, to achieve those all or even most of them in an email for a domain name. But I think thinking about them may be helpful. Or not.

Bob

oldtimer said:

400 emails are not what is considered to be closely targeted outbounding.

You might get a few good results by spamming but you shouldn't be recommending it to others.

IMO

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I was neither spamming
nor recommending

I reveal to the community
what worked
in order to give back

as you deserve information, guys
not assumptions


here is the open alerts from that email:

frank-germany said:

I was neither spamming
nor recommending

I reveal to the community
what worked
in order to give back

as you deserve information, guys
not assumptions

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I guess everyone can judge for themselves if you were spamming or not, but in my opinion you are not setting a good example for newbies here by the kind of method that you have described.

IMO

oldtimer said:

I guess everyone can judge for themselves if you were spamming or not, but in my opinion you are not setting a good example for newbies here by the kind of method that you have described.

IMO

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yes you may be right

a concrete example
what sold a domain at $1200 USD
and how exactly
to a happy end-user
in a competitive market

maybe just too much for a novice

you'd better discuss a few theories

frank-germany said:

yes you may be right

a concrete example
what sold a domain at $1200 USD
and how exactly
to a happy end-user
in a competitive market

maybe just too much for a novice

you'd better discuss a few theories

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Frank, maybe you're tired and you are not thinking right, I recommend that you give it a rest before making things much worse for yourself, you don't want to be branded as a spammer and worse yet showing others how to spam.


IMO

oldtimer said:

Frank, maybe you're tired and you are not thinking right, I recommend that you give it a rest before making things much worse for yourself, you don't want to be branded as a spammer and worse yet showing others how to spam.


IMO

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so define why you think its spam

and
how to do it correctly

Spam = an email which a recipient did not explicitly request

frank-germany said:

so define why you think its spam

and
how to do it correctly

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Go back and read this thread carefully and learn from those who are giving the right suggestions.

You shouldn't worry about convincing me whether what you are doing is spamming or not it's the rules and regulations that define spamming that you need to be concerned about.

What you described and are suggesting for others to do is clearly defined as Spamming by the law.

IMO

Good evening everyone,

The other thing to consider is who our potential purchasers could also be. Do you consider fellow NP domain investors in the same way as an external customer? Would you change your approach and/or language accordingly or would you use a more casual approach even though you may not actually know the other person.

I've had a few NPers reach out to me and ask whether I would have any interest in acquiring their domain names and the tone and language was always on point and professional and used the type of language that would at least peak my interest enough to consider their proposal. Unfortunately, the domain names offered were not exactly what I was looking for at that time and I quickly and politely declined.

The other way to consider out-bounding is to determine whether it is possible to send the same e-mail to many different people rather than sending repeated e-mails to the same person. I know that not everyone agrees with my approach and buying strategy of domain names but considering my end user mostly determines the names that I mostly hand register. There is usually more than one potential end user in mind at the time of registration. Fortunately, even as a newbie renewals are not a problem for me and I have a philosophy whereby if I haven't had any bites up-to just before renewal then I will ditch the domain name and hopefully buy better, more relevant (at that time) ones which can repeat the cycle.

Nothing stays the same and we must move with the times. Now, where did I put that box?

I'd say that on the whole civility and good manners get you a long way in this business. Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, even though I am going to (badly no doubt) but, since August 2019 I've just received my 500th like so I guess I must be doing something right along the way. I felt proud of this small achievement and it is nice to know that my peers see some merit in my achievements too.

Keep up the good work everyone and enjoy the journey...where ever that may take you.

Regards,

Reddstagg

oldtimer said:

Go back and read this thread carefully and learn from those who are giving the right suggestions.

You shouldn't worry about convincing me whether what you are doing is spamming or not it's the rules and regulations that define spamming that you need to be concerned about.

What you described and are suggesting for others to do is clearly defined as Spamming by the law.

IMO

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disclaimer:

not suggesting anything to anybody
I'm no laywer

find your own way

tonyk2000 said:

Spam = an email which a recipient did not explicitly request

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Technically, it is also.



We are discussing exactly this product in this thread. Outbound is classic spam Sorry, I don't want to offend anyone...

As per the survery of Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group:

Typically, three in five users (61%) say that when they suspect an email is spam, they usually do
not open it. About four in ten move it to their junk mail folder (44%) or hit the “spam” button (39%).
Fewer report it to their ISP or ESP (9%) or to a third party spam reporting service or government
agency (7%), though U.S. users are more likely to do so than are their counterparts in other
countries. However, nearly half delete it without flagging it as being spam (47%)...
Half of email users in North America and in Western Europe have opened or accessed spam and
large proportions, representing tens of millions, have taken action like clicking on links or opening
attachments.


... and which is why it still works, and will work in foreseeable future, for any type of sales - including domains.