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"There Are Two Ways to Do Cold Emails" with HyperGrowth Partners Founder Guillaume Cabane
- Initiating outreach via public notifications regarding negative brand comments without product promotion to leverage information helpfulness and compel responses.
- Identifying unrecognized audience business problems or errors to drive engagement with a predicted response rate of 10 to 12 percent, representing approximately five times the standard cold email benchmark.
- Scaling automated negative comment detection after an initial manual testing phase and engineering investment to achieve a "green ocean" status with zero dollar customer acquisition costs.
- Achieving a marginal email cost of zero as upfront development expenses are amortized, provided competitors do not replicate the automated scraping methodology.
- Utilizing personalized physical letters with stamps to create absolute psychological pressure on recipients to open the mail to avoid appearing socially abnormal.
- Deploying a betting algorithm strategy for CFOs that leverages scraped college data to predict sports games, generating a 12 to 15 percent response rate.
- Executing the betting algorithm approach with a very small monetary cost that remains too high for manual execution but insignificant in dollar terms.
- Creating a perception of human care and offering free betting opportunities to compel recipients to acknowledge outreach, ensuring engagement.
- Relying on competitor inaction to maintain a competitive moat and sustain the zero-dollar marginal cost advantage.