Simu Liu became Shang Chi from a cold tweet to Marvel!* In all seriousness, this is great advice. You've nailed down all the reasons why I personally haven't cold emailed, and now I feel confident in doing it *He didn't actually but he did tweet them in 2018 😄, and the movie is awesome!!
Great tips in here that everyone should follow. Many folks online are surprisingly nice, and a new connection never ever hurts. One additional tip if you want to reach the next level and cold email/dm someone who is pretty busy or higher profile is to 👏add👏value!! For example, if you're a video editor and you want to reach out to a podcast host to help edit their videos, you could demonstrate your skills by editing one video of theirs. For OSS devs, you could try and tackle an issue in their project. It can be really tricky to think of ways to do this as a beginner but try and foster a unique skill and use it to help! Also, try to avoid asking someone to "pick their brain", it is played out and kinda weird sounding. You want to get to know someone, not administer a covid test lol
As a former inside sales representative who has made a lot of cold calls and emails to businesses, I think these tips are on point. One thing to remember about cold emails is to not dwell on the non-responses. It only takes one yes to cancel out all the frustration of 100 nos and non-responses. A non-response is not a judgment on you personally. Oftentimes, it's not you, it's them.
I've cold-linkedin and cold-email just like you've described in this video. A lot of my current professional life has precipitated from this type of cold emailing/messaging. There's so much value in learning how to network and communicate effectively and I love that you take the time to cover things like cold-emailing, especially for younger folks.
This sounds like awesome advise. I'm looking to transition into data science from finance and will definitely leverage this info when networking. Thank you!
as someone who has to do this constantly these days to stay afloat in my industry (an industry that went from 1y or 6mos contracts to basically a gig economy, and struggling to even think of how to switch fields) and it's my personal kryptonite, this is so helpful. Cold emailing has me in a panic like nothing else because I never know how to word things in a corporate-speak non-cringe way.
This was always something I struggled with - knowing what I actually want from someone and assuming people would help me figure it/myself out when I would talk to them. Also not taking into account others' communication skills. Though I wish, if it were a team thing rather than the networking talked about in this video, that people would take into account that I also have a communication style they should also attune to instead of just dismissing it in stronger preference of their own 😂
Thanks for the tips and especially for Calendly.. I never knew how to handle these annoying LinkedIn situations like: "When do you have time...?" "Nope.. pick another date.. nope another one please..."
I want to connect with people whether they are software engineers or not. I'm passionate about a lot of things. If someone does something impressive, then I want to encourage and support however I can. P.S. I totally agree on spelling people's name correctly. Applies to all backgrounds.
I've done cold emails for professors in prospective universities But doing this for a job is scaring me... If I as a professional got such emails it would probably make me happy so thanks for the advice!
OMG you actually installed the backplate on the back of your Shure SM7B? Literally the only person I've ever seen who's done it, lol. I don't know what your channel is about but I'm subscribing just for this one reason. You're the type of person I like.
This was amazing to watch! Thank you for making this video, it’s super comfortable to listen to you talk and every point is relevant and well laid out. :)
we need two things: escalation and passive participation. escalation is where one email goes to the broadest group and then to narrower groups, and passive participation is where we have access to raw or derived logs of escalation. the idea is that we need to minimize opportunity costs simultaneously for everyone but not to the extent that it causes unsustainable structural changes to the entire system like the way freelance platforms could've but eventually didn't topple the 9to5 paradigm
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I’m not in tech, but this is exactly what I did when I was trying to navigate a career shift. Most people were super helpful and responsive once I started writing clearer emails, and it led to a bunch of great connections and eventually my current job. Definitely a skill worth developing, even though it’s scary at first
«Cold» communication takes a bit of courage but builds some as well 😊💪 Networking can be scary but you might just end up with a friend (or a dreamjob?) and I’ll be damned if that aint the best incentive. Title and vid really on point today Mayuko, had to click asap ✨
Thanks for an encouraging video! I think email is still generally very difficult for anyone, but you can only learn from taking the risk to getting out of your comfort zone.
Awesome video! Networking is extremely important in today's world. I know a couple of folks that got job referrals because of their network. Definitely will try this out myself too! Thanks for sharing Mayuko!
Hi Mayuko, this will probably my last video on ur channel the reason being you are so pretty that u r making me uncomfortable, would love to connect with u one on one for some career advice as I am also in tech.
Can totally relate to people misspelling the name. I didn't realize cold emails/dms are a thing, it just feels a little weird and like an intrusion in some way. Either way, I'd say I would not read emails that are too long or not even open the dms that have voice messages instead of text.
Yea I also would like to add to that one more tip: send a lot of them (like 1000s) and dont think much about them not replying or saying gtfo. Also figure out a way how you can send a lot of emails and not get your email blacklisted so you would end up in everyones spam folder
