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# Write an Effective Cold Email
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/cold-email-template/
- Published: 2022-08-20T18:01:18.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-20T18:01:18.000Z
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: Job Search, Networking

Back when I was in college (full of optimism, innocence, and Red Bull), **I sent a total of 367 cold emails** to professional contacts (many of whom I found through my college's alumni database)

**I had about a 10% response rate** (which isn't bad, considering how I just needed 1 summer internship and 1 full-time job) and here are my top 3 learnings:

1. The objective of the cold email should be to set up a **face-to-face (or virtual) chat**
2. Make it about **THEM**, and not you
3. **Do NOT** include a laundry list of questions (it's a lot more time-consuming to reply to a bunch of questions via email than it is hop on a quick phone call)

[Download my Cold Email template](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15vi8-CUSaH7xRX8kBwUzPgKREOGOsh9IHlV73R833Uc/copy?ref=jeffsu.org)

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