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Stop Asking for Meetings in Cold Emails: How to Warm Up Buyers with Value | Bite-Sized Tactics

30 Minutes to President's Club30 May 20258 min

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If your first cold email asks for a meeting—you’re doing it wrong. In this video, Mark Kosoglow (Co-Founder/CEO @ OperatorChief + Revenue Officer @ Catalyst Software) breaks down a smarter outbound strategy: how to warm up buyers by educating them instead of pitching them. Whether you're an SDR, AE, or founder doing founder-led sales, this framework will help you increase reply rates and book more qualified meetings. RESOURCES DISCUSSED: ⁠Join our weekly newsletter⁠ ⁠Things you can steal⁠ ⁠Save $50 on any 30MPC course⁠ with code “PODCAST” 30MPC Training: 30mpc.com/training

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  1. Do you have a sense of how much better the storytelling pain chain converts versus a traditional problem-based outbound sequence? Some of the initial evidence we're seeing is difference. Because don't forget what we're doing is we're not fishing for replies in meetings in a pain chain. We're looking for, can we get them to do something to get value that indicates that they're more mature or they're progressing in their buyer's journey. Once they download the first thing, then we move them to aware. Now we know they're aware. Now let's create content that says, I might want to consider this like a buyer's guide or feature parody matrix or whatever. Now they're considering. And then that's when we hit them for the meeting. We might not get a huge

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  2. that they're more mature or they're progressing in their buyer's journey. Once they download the first thing, then we move them to aware. Now we know they're aware. Now let's create content that says, I might want to consider this like a buyer's guide or feature parody matrix or whatever. Now they're considering. And then that's when we hit them for the meeting. We might not get a huge reply rate or whatever for that early pain chain education. But what we're doing though is we're now moving those people getting signals and moving them into a direct save. So when we're asking for the meeting, we're getting it a lot more frequently than when we're sending it, just blasting out to

    In Campaign offer design