Sales email template/copy

[orchardapple]

Any of you kind people would care to provide me with a sample domain sales email for a cold call/introduction type of sale?

Any tips on how best to approach potential buyers?

 

[Skinner]

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/domain-research/48930-emails-companies-about-domains.html

Take a look a that thread and take a look at the selfmademinds blog too

 

[Skinner]

Oh I always reference edwins generic post too 100 Smart Companies that Understand the Concept of Generic Domain Names which is also a nice push

 

[crabfoot]

You will be lucky to get a response to an email. Most companies instruct their employees to ignore emails.

I have a proof print of a Cumbrian inn ( now a posh hotel) by a recognised artist, which I have tried to sell to them by sending emails. No response. I rang the hotel and spoke to the manager. He said he had corporate instructions to say nothing and do nothing if faced by this situation. Emails and telephone contact to be ignored.

I still have a couple of ideas, but it convinces me that the best approach is to actually target the right individual within an organisation, send a Snail Mail, and then mark the envelope "Personal, Confidential". If you want the extra assurance. send it Recorded - cheap, and they have to sign. Make sure the man is actually still with the company.

Yeh, right, I've had trouble talking to a couple of my millionaire relatives with "dragons on the desk" for secretaries. Practice gets you through, if you are not talking BS.

You want to make an offer? Send it SnailMail, send it by the cheapest "signed-for" service. I'll write you a letter for £10 ... send me a PM. Pardon my cynicism, but I am fed up of donating my skills for nowt.

 

[Edwin]

I wonder if there's mileage to be gained by sending snail mail in a personalised envelope with the domain name printed on the envelope itself in some clean, easy to read typeface (basically a "text logo")?

Thinking outside the box here, if I saw a letter from "great name".co.uk and I "got" the concept of domains and was in the "great name" niche (where "great name" = most appropriate generic for the niche) that might inspire me to open the envelope and see what was inside.

 

[davedevelopment]

I wonder if there's mileage to be gained by sending snail mail in a personalised envelope with the domain name printed on the envelope itself in some clean, easy to read typeface (basically a "text logo")?

Thinking outside the box here, if I saw a letter from "great name".co.uk and I "got" the concept of domains and was in the "great name" niche (where "great name" = most appropriate generic for the niche) that might inspire me to open the envelope and see what was inside.

They may see it as something from a competitor, which would probably increase the chance of them opening it, then a moment of relief/joy when they realise you're trying to sell the domain to them instead. I like it. And at what cost? Time taken to print something on an envelope? Got to be worth a try. I just need a couple of "great name".co.uks now