Elna Cain

APRIL 15, 2024

Job interview process dragged out “I was sent a rejection email that they were no longer going to move forward with me as a candidate. There are three main ways you can use: Job boards and job sites Cold Pitching LinkedIn Networking But before we discuss those tactics, consider how easy it was for me to land one of my recent gigs.

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Elna Cain

JULY 16, 2023

Most of my copywriting clients come to me looking for SEO content for their websites or help with their email marketing. Email copywriting These one-off projects can easily turn into long-term clients if you have the skills and know-how to make clients love your work. But don’t forget to try job boards and cold pitching!

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Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Consider Cold Pitching Cold pitching is the process of finding companies that aren’t actively hiring freelance writers and then pitching your services to them. In my Book Clients in 30 Days Challenge, I’m going through my cold pitching strategy and many students are gaining a disciplined tactic they can repeat.

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Freelance Magic

MARCH 15, 2023

By Juwaria Merchant In the world of freelancing, cold pitching is treated as the be-all and end-all to land clients. Cold pitching, if done right, can do wonders for your freelancing career. Without further ado, let’s explore some effective cold pitching strategies. We’re not here to refute this claim. However, it can be scary.

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Freelance Magic

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Cold pitching is a popular tactic for freelancers to win new clients and expand their business. In this start-to-finish, I’ll spill all the secrets for writing kick-ass cold emails that can help you work with your dream clients. What is a cold pitch? 5 reasons why freelancers believe in cold pitching.

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Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Take a course Create on-spec pieces Market your freelance writing business on social Use job boards Try cold pitching Gain the right skills Understand your niche Understand SEO content Develop a fast writing process 1. I have a free email course called Get Paid to Write. Traditionally, cold pitching is a lengthy process.

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Freelance Magic

JANUARY 3, 2023

Here are the top, no-BS, nine strategies to find high-paying clients: #1: Cold pitching. You’ll be surprised at how many doors a thoughtful cold email can open. For those who don’t know: cold pitching is emailing potential clients about how they can benefit from using your services. Essentially, selling.

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Enchanting Marketing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Let me tell you a tiny story first … The email confirmation from the hotel looks promising. We decide to get a cold drink at the cafe next door. In the world of online writing, we often talk about followers, audiences, and email lists. It’s hard, right? How can you be personal without oversharing? Check-in from 2 PM.

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Ben Settle

APRIL 10, 2024

Several months ago there was a big broo-ha-ha on Twitter when my pal Sean Kaye got fed up with guys cold DM’ing him about how to make an extra $1k per month… and he screenshot and mocked it. Blindly send cold DM’s to randos? They want the sEcReT cold email or DM turn-of-phrase. Very amusing post. And quite brutal too.

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Enchanting Marketing

MAY 7, 2024

The drumroll is perfect for any type of writing including sales letters, social media posts, blogs, and emails. I thought of another lake, with Saint Gingolphe under the shadow of the Savoy Alps, cold and familiar, instead of these lower, stranger Mexican highlands. There is a good reason for this. But the lake was the same.

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Freelance Magic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I know some who have had HUGE success through building a LinkedIn following, while others are really rocking it with cold outreach. So, I’ll only be sending a few cold emails , but I’m going to be making them DAMN IRRESISTIBLE. Every freelancer is different.

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Elna Cain

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

In one of my emails I mentioned I needed a mental health break from client work. If that’s not what you want to do (I don’t blame you) then see if you can offer different services to your clients and start cold pitching and looking at job writing boards. Prepare Your Email to Clients. Create a Canned Email.

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Elna Cain

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Virtual assistants are paid to help clients and businesses with online tasks such as answering emails and comments, posting on social media accounts, bookkeeping, graphic design, and more! With Cold Pitching. Cold pitching is not as scary as it seems! But if you’re not ready to cold pitch, you can warm pitch too.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 30, 2023

Eight years ago, when I started work on America’s Youngest Ambassador: The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith’s Lasting Message of Peace (Down East Books, 2023), I had no idea how to go about writing it. If they had questions about the girl known as America’s Youngest Ambassador, their email would land in my inbox. she told me.

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Content Hacker

JULY 7, 2023

Do you dread cold calling? For most introverts, making cold calls is one of the hardest parts of sales. And let’s face it: Introvert or not, cold calling sucks. ” Well, I’ve got good news for you: You DON’T have to rely on cold calling to generate sales leads for your business. .”

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Grammarly

MARCH 14, 2024

Enhancing email productivity is just one of the many things AI can do, whether you’re stuck on what to say or not sure what order to put the information in. But email writing technology can’t help you if you don’t know how to use it, so this guide explains the ins and outs of writing emails with AI. on Wednesday, March 13.

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Elna Cain

DECEMBER 19, 2022

I do real-world digital marketing, and businesses know this when they find me on Google and see my email list and my products. This means all pieces are blog posts, landing pages, and emails about sales technology or mental health. In the beginning, you may not know your worth or the going rate for a blog post, email, or Facebook ad.

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Ben Settle

MAY 4, 2024

One of my Email Players subscribers — who does not wish to be named for obvious reasons — told me about a new client doing a lot of dumb things, with lots of ways he wants to help them and get paid more by them… but is not sure how to go about approaching them and offering to help. I always take that as a good thing.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 22, 2023

Cold Outreach: Asking Other Bloggers For Links While the term “cold outreach” generally applies to the realm of sales and marketing, it’s also a vital component of link building. Plus, you’ll likely get a lot of rejections or have your emails outright ignored if you don’t use the right approach.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 26, 2024

If you’ve ever second-guessed an email you sent at work, this guide is for you. You use professional emails for many aspects of your professional life—from communicating with your manager to reaching out to a potential employer, networking contact, or anyone connected to your work. Sign off with a proper email ending.

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Elna Cain

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If you look at content mill jobs – companies that don’t value content writers and pay very little – you’ll see gigs like $15 for a blog post or $10 for an email. Start Cold Pitching. While I mostly did job board pitches, many of my Writeto1k students found success with cold pitching. If not, you should!

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Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For example, if you have an email funnel, sales page, white paper or case study as a portfolio entry, most likely the business will not update it. I will actively cold pitch, prospect and network to land more writing jobs. If these content pieces are few and far between for you, then keep those pieces until you accumulate more.

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Elna Cain

OCTOBER 19, 2023

So, let’s look at how I write a winning pitch email for websites. Read & Follow the Guidelines of the Publication To ensure the editor reads through your whole email pitch, read the guidelines and publication of the website! Here’s a pitch email guidelines example from Atlas Obscura. What can you do instead?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

But sometimes, finding the email address of someone you’d like to communicate with can be such a hassle. Today, I’ll show you how to get anyone’s business email address and teach you how to follow up with them effectively. Why Would You Need to Find Someone’s Email Address? How Not to Use Email Search. Keep reading.

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Enchanting Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Start an email on your iPhone and finish it on your Mac. Read your heroes. Absorb their rhythm. Then emulate it. How Aple applies these lessons Apple’s copywriters love short sentences, too. For instance: Start here. Finish there. And, of course, their copywriters know how to vary long and short.

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Ben Settle

APRIL 17, 2024

The short answer: Take a market-first and not a marketing-first I’ll use all the scamps spanking out cold and canned messages to randos as an example of what market first vs marketing first looks like. Do that right and you may just find clients coming to you, instead of you going to them. But ideally do both ways.

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Ben Settle

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I’m a warm leads kinda guy, not a cold leads guy — not that I am against cold leads, it’s just not my game and the older I get, the more I prefer to play the marketing game on easy mode anyway 3. He also tested my warm daily emails pitting the video vs the text sales letter. The winner? Neither, in both cases. The reason?

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Smart Blogger

JULY 3, 2023

This could mean traditional methods like TV and radio commercials, print ads, or even cold calling, or, more commonly these days, email campaigns and social media ads. That’s cold emailing done right. Strategy #5: Cold Calling Let’s face it, cold calling can feel like a stumbling block.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It’s a much softer approach than cold emailing and focuses more on building long-term, authentic relationships than traditional sales techniques. Whether it’s someone dropping the ball and ignoring an email for weeks, or a dumpster fire cold email, it can quickly tank your brand’s rep and Q4 income goals.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Depending on your industry or company culture, including an emoji in an email can clarify the emotional cues behind your message. Although they are helpful markers of intention, like any language, there are dos and don’ts when using emoji in work email. The meaning of an emoji might be culturally different from one country to the next.

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The Hoth

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s no secret that traditional link-building techniques involve lots of cold outreach to website owners, but just how effective are they? Here are a few eye-opening statistics on cold outreach emails: The average response rate to cold emails is a measly 8.5% (which translates to roughly 8 replies for every 100 emails sent).

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Freelance Magic

MARCH 8, 2023

Power Writing Course Source Hosted by Shaan Puri, the Power Writing Course , is one of the more-diverse resources freelance writers can purchase to learn how to write: Landing pages Pitches Viral posts Headlines Cold emails Oh, and, you’re also offered price matching. Price : $950 (available at a discounted price of $39) 6.

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Quick Sprout

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Hunter helps people connect with business professionals through its email finder and email verification tool. Hunter’s email verifier helps ensure email lists are accurate and active, so you get fewer bounces and higher deliverability rates. Health and Stability Founded in 2015, Hunter is a relatively new company.

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Freelance Union

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Some time along my freelancing journey, I tried to outsource an email marketing campaign to promote my translation services to Forex brokers. I spent $500 for 3 emails, and I was extremely unhappy with the result. Over the years, I have probably wasted hundreds of hours.

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Grammarly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Did you know that a big share of email recipients decide whether or not to open an email based on the subject line alone? If you want recipients to read your email, you’ve got to get it opened first. A professional email subject line is a clear and concise preview of an email’s content.

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Kayleigh Moore

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I find myself sitting at my desk without realizing how I got there, opening my email, and feeling the urge to “check in” and “touch base” with clients I haven’t heard from in a few weeks. I wanted to take the time to write and share this with you today because maybe it’s a cold comfort to hear someone else is *going through it.*

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 23, 2024

Already the idea is spinning in my mind, trailing off into subplots and characters, but then I stop myself cold. This was hotly debated in the literary community, and in the end, one error was that the author had plagiarized words from an email. Because what my friend gave me was a private confession. Or was it?

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