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by appstorelottery 2605 days ago
Read "Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blout. You'll need to make more than a few dozen calls - more like 100 per day. Every day. Keep doing it and you'll learn. Severe amounts of rejection are just part of the job. Shrug it off and keep making your calls.

Hunter.IO will help you find decision-maker email addresses. MixMax.Com and similar services will alert you when your cold emails are opened. Keep your emails short and to the point.

Blogs and ebooks are fine - everyone does them - "inbound marketing" is the easy way because you're not going through the pain of rejection. However, this is not the easy way. You'll spend a lot of time of SEO and online promotion. It's way easier to just pick up the phone / email and call.

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Thanks. I'll refuel my morale for now and get back into it soon. I'll make more calls. I use Mailgun to track my email opens/clicks, so I'll also keep doing that.
Hey, just to give you a prod:

"I'll refuel my morale for now and get back into it soon."

This is the procrastinators dream ticket. :-) It's well known that simply getting started on the task makes it easier. What's stopping you from making five calls right now? I know you don't like it. But if you want this to succeed - this is the price you must pay.

Do it now :-)