Email, love it or hate it, is an indispensable tool that fosters collaboration, facilitates idea exchange, and propels endeavors with unprecedented efficiency and reach.

Crafting cold emails is key to unlocking relationships, receiving knowledge, and making progress toward one’s goals. Resources like Ramit Sethi’s influential blog posts shed light on effective email techniques, illustrating why certain emails receive immediate response and others are deleted. Understanding the psychology in this realm is essential in today’s competitive landscape.

Here’s my mission statement:

Within the next month, I will study email psychology and approaches, and I will put this into practice. Signs of my progress will include completing my readings, better understanding how to send emails, and seeing results from my actions.

Here’s my action statement:

The activities I will conduct are read email strategy guides, craft my story, and send cold emails. I will iterate after seeing the feedback to the initial emails.

Project Plan:

• Week 1
  • Read about effective email strategies such as Ramit’s email scripts
  • Identify approximately 10 email recipients I want to contact at work, professionally, or personally
  • Craft an email with my story and call to action in a work, professional, and personal situation
  • Send a cold email to at least seven people
• Week 2
  • No action item, as I will be traveling
• Week 3
  • Check in on my outbound emails to see which were returned
  • Iterate on my story and CTA based on the response, crafting new emails
• Week 4
  • Send three additional cold emails
  • Write M2M recap post

I’ll check in at the end of the month. Happy February.