Bank Statement Converter · PDF bank statement to Excel converter
Send cold emails to find customers for a simple web tool
One sale in three months, plus many angry replies
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What they did
Sent cold emails for three months. Targets and volume not stated.
What happened
One sale in three months; annoyed many recipients and got angry replies.
- Stage
- growth
- Effort
- Three months
“I also tried sending out cold emails, and in three months of doing that, I got one sale, and I also annoyed a lot of people. I got a lot of angry messages back. People don't really like cold emails.”
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