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how to use AI to write high converting emails and crush cold outreach

Hey there, Creator!
If you opened this email, you’re probably interested in getting more clients for your business.
Perhaps, you’re tired of posting daily on social media without getting any leads.
Perhaps, you’re getting leads, but don’t want to rely on the “content hamster wheel” for customer acquisition forever.
Perhaps, you’re just curious.
Regardless of what reason brought you to open this email - you’ll find the answer.

In today’s newsletter I’ll cover everything from start to finish. You will learn:
The secret behind mastering cold outreach (and unlocking predictable lead flow)
Draft 10 emphatic outreach messages in 2 minutes using the Empathetic Outreach Writer
A blueprint to send your first 100 cold outreaches via email, LinkedIn, and X
At the end of this email, you will have everything you need to get your first client from cold outreach.
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The hidden secret behind mastering cold outreach (and unlocking sustained lead flow)
Cold outreach is powerful because once you nail the positioning, it's a reliable way to get leads.
It doesn't change like volatile social media algorithms.
When you know that for every 100 cold DMs you send, you get 3 customers…
…cold outreach turns customer acquisition into a math problem.
It’s not longer about:
“How do I get more customers?”
But:
“How many cold outreaches do I need to send to get more customers?”
That’s why every solopreneur should know the basics of it.
The mistake most people make with cold outreach is trying to directly sell themselves.
Just look at your own Twitter DMs:
They’re probably full of bad pitches you’ll never respond to.
The reason why you’re annoyed by these messages is that they talk about their features instead of your problem.
But the secret behind mastering cold outreach is to make it about your customers’ problems, not your solution.
You should position yourself as a "free consultant" who aims to understand their struggles first.
For example, look at these two cold DMs:
Pitch A (about their features):
"Hi there! Are you aiming to elevate your brand's presence on social media? I specialize in crafting and managing targeted social media advertising campaigns. Would you be interested in hiring me to boost your brand's visibility and engagement on platforms like Facebook and Instagram?"
Instant block.
Pitch B (about your problem):
"Hi! I've noticed that your brand has a solid social media following, but it seems like you're not leveraging paid advertising to its full potential. Have you considered the impact of targeted ads to enhance your reach and conversion rates? Before diving deeper into content creation, there's a strategic approach to advertising that could significantly increase your audience engagement and sales—allowing you to get more results with less effort on content alone."
While pitch A screams:
“Do you want to pay me to do ads for you?”
(which nobody’s gonna want to do)
Pitch B is all about helping you make more money.
The first step to master cold outreach is to understand that your goal is to give your prospect so much free valuable advice that they ask you:
“What do you offer?”
Now, we’ll cover how to use AI to draft messages like the above for your business:

Draft 10 emphatic outreach messages in minutes using the Empathetic Outreach Writer
This prompt helps you write 10 empathy-based outreaches for your brand:
I want you to become empathetic outreach writer, a masterful cold outreach copywriter whose only mission is to 10 draft “empathetic cold outreaches” for my offer.
For context [INSERT CONTEXT]
My offer is to [EXPLAIN YOUR OFFER AND TARGET AUDIENCE]
To write empathetic cold outreaches, I want you to follow this process:
Understand that empathetic cold outreaches are problem-focused, not feature-focused.
The mistake most people make with cold outreach is trying to directly sell themselves.
The reason why people annoyed by these messages is that they talk about their features instead of your problem.
But the secret behind mastering cold outreach is to make it about your customers’ problems, not your solution.
Your outreach messages should help me position yourself as a "free consultant" who aims to understand their struggles first.
For example, look at these two cold DMs:
Pitch A feature-based
"Hi there! Are you aiming to elevate your brand's presence on social media? I specialize in crafting and managing targeted social media advertising campaigns. Would you be interested in hiring me to boost your brand's visibility and engagement on platforms like Facebook and Instagram?"
Pitch B problem-based & empathetic
"Hi! I've noticed that your brand has a solid social media following, but it seems like you're not leveraging paid advertising to its full potential. Have you considered the impact of targeted ads to enhance your reach and conversion rates? Before diving deeper into content creation, there's a strategic approach to advertising that could significantly increase your audience engagement and sales—allowing you to get more results with less effort on content alone. "
While pitch A screams:
“Do you want to pay me to do ads for you?”
(which nobody’s gonna want to do)
Pitch B is all about helping you make more money.
Figure out a way to do empathetic outreach for my offer that makes the customer aware of the problem I solve for them, and what pain its causing to them by using a question
In the above examples, the question that achieves this is
“Have you considered the impact of targeted ads to enhance your reach and conversion rates”
Constraints:
Your empathetic cold outreach must be no more than 150 words
Your empathetic cold outreach should start with a complement and acknowledge the receiver
Your empathetic cold outreach must include an illuminating question to make my prospect aware of their problem
Your empathetic cold outreach should have a gentle, non-needy call to action, which can be as simple as a question to the customer
Do not use salesy langue like “unlock”, “game-changer”, etc. Just as a normal question.
Now, write 10 empathetic cold outreaches for me. Do it in a tone of voice that looks “off the desk”, as if a friend wrote to a friend. Be casual.

HOW TO USE THE EMPATHETIC OUTREACH WRITER PROMPT:
Fill in the [INSERT CONTEXT] placeholder with context about yourself and who you are.
Example:
“I am a content creator and online entrepreneur and I write a publication called "The Creator Report". I post content on Bluesky, TikTok, Instagram, and Threads, have a community full of AI-driven online entrepreneurs, and publish a newsletter once a week. All my content is made specifically about how Content Creators can use AI to streamline their business, work faster, and make more money. Most commonly, I talk about different ways to use ChatGPT, but I also introduce Content Creators to other helpful AI tools and workflows in them. The goal of my content is to attract as many AI-interested Content Creators (or aspiring creators) as possible. I want to be the world's best resource for them. I don't know how to code, but I'm fairly skilled at marketing, writing, and investing.“
Fill in the [EXPLAIN YOUR OFFER AND TARGET AUDIENCE] placeholder with your offer and who you’re trying to reach
Example:
“My offer is to sell B2C courses to content creators and online entrepreneurs interested in using AI to grow their socials faster. I'm looking to recruit more affiliates for my business that can help me reach more of my target audience”
Here are some of the 10 cold outreach drafts it wrote for me:

Sure - not all of them are great - but they are pretty close.
Choose 2-3 of your favorites and tweak them…
Then, do the cold outreach:.

A blueprint to send your first 100 cold outreaches via email, LinkedIn, and X
To make cold outreach work, you need to figure out out three things:
How to find your target customers
How to get their attention
How to make them trust you
The empathetic outreach method helps you get attention and trust because it directly separates you from sleazy salespeople.
But it doesn’t solve our first problem:
How do we find people to reach?
That’s why I want to share the TL;DR of the 3 main platforms for cold outreach:
1) Email outreach
Email allows personalization at scale for qualified leads.
How to find leads:
Use tools like Apollo (not affiliated) or LinkedIn Sales Navigator to find target company employees and their email addresses based on filters like:
Role
Industry
Company revenue
How to reach out to them:
Option 1: Use a tool like Apollo to send out a bunch of unpersonalized emails if you have a large target market
Option 2: For smaller volumes, you can send highly personalized emails from your own inbox manually to the emails you got in step 1
(recommended reading: How to write a cold email that actually works)
2) Twitter outreach
Twitter/X is cool because you can find rich people who hang out there casually.
How to find leads:
Use Twitters’ search function to search for your target customer (for example “Ecommerce Founder”)
How to reach out to them:
Send a DM with your outreach message. Follow up every 3 days.
3) Linkedin outreach
LinkedIn is powerful because it has so much data about its users, and if you have a personal brand on there it makes cold outreach easier.
How to find leads:
Use LinkedIn’s search function to filter for company industry, location, etc.
If you haven’t used your free month of the LinkedIn Sales Navigator yet, you can activate it to get short-term access to powerful search tools
How to reach out to them:
Send (very) casual connection requests to your prospects. Show interest - and don’t pivot into sales too fast.

WHAT YOU LEARNED TODAY
The secret behind mastering cold outreach (and unlocking predictable lead flow)
Draft 10 emphatic outreach messages in 3 minutes using the Empathetic Outreach Writer
A blueprint to send your first 100 cold outreaches via email, LinkedIn, Instagram, X and Bluesky
Wow, we covered a lot of ground today!
In the end you just gotta shoot your shot.
Like Wayne Gretzky says “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take!”
See you next Tuesday @ 10 am.🦎
~Jamar
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