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Cold Emailing
How to craft the perfect brand pitch email [2 examples]
lemlist team
June 9, 2023
October 18, 2020
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7 min. read
lemlist team
LAST UPDATED
June 7, 2024
READING TIME
7 min.
If you've answered yes, stick with us through this article as we're gonna talk about two brand pitch email templates that hit a 67% (influencers) and 40% (Youtube vloggers) reply rates.
Hopefully, they will inspire your next campaign in these industries...
One thing though... before we show you the templates, let us give 2 technical tips that have direct influence on your reply rate and how good you're protected against spam filters.
If you want to jump into specific sections, just click below:
Let's talk about two tactics first, starting with...
How to avoid spam filters?
It doesn't matter how good your offer is if your emails go to spam.
When sending emails (especially in bulk), we need to be aware of the factors that could land us in the spam folder. We've outlined them all in our email deliverability checklist.
Today, we'll cover the top 3 things you need to keep under control.
If you've just created your email account, you need to warm it up.
Email warm-up is a process that involves a gradual increase in the sending volume. A warmed-up email address is one that has been sending and receiving messages as a real person would.
To do that, you can use lemwarm, that will automate the whole process for you.
How to find brand and influencer contact details?
You can connect with people via direct messages, but email remains the #1 channel for professional communication.
Sometimes though, it's hard to find their email addresses. Let me give you a few tips to ease the pain.
There are 2 types of contacts you can find:
general email address, like pr@company.com
person's email address, like name@company.com or name@gmail.com
Usually, it's easy to find pr@company.com email. All you have to do is visit their contact page.
However, you can get a much quicker and more relevant response if you contact a specific person.
We've already written about the tactics to find anyone's email address, but I'll show one of the tactics here:
This is the template that a lot of founders can use to promote their software though different influencers, but also to get on their podcast or show.
It worked pretty well for us in the past:
5 shows scheduled in our podcast outreach with this message
2 YouTube reviews our of 5 emails sent
One of the key campaigns in the early stages of our marketing
This email is a variation of one of our past campaigns, designed specifically to pitch YouTube influencers.
1. Do your research
If you do your homework well, you'll gain amazing insights into your influencer's world, what they like to talk about, how they run their channel, topics they've addressed in the past, and so on.
This gives you an opportunity to make content references and open the conversation. The ideal stuff for your intro line.
2. Personalize your cold emails
An important concept that allows you to catch influencers' attention.
In this case, you can use personalized image feature by lemlist. This way, when people open the email, they'll see a screenshot of their own channel.
And works so good...
3. State your reasons
Always share the reasons why people should collaborate with you.
For example, you can share this video with your client base and your X number of your clients will check then channel.
Don't forget the proof behind your words, because otherwise they are just words.
Brand pitch cold email template #2
The objective for this email was to collaborate with several influencers we targeted on our bombshell giveaway - free wine for a year for 4 lucky winners.
We pitched most of them with a cold email.
Here are the stats:
Cold emailed 12 influencers
67% reply rate
4 collaborations agreed
3x profile size + cool brand awareness from their profiles
Brand pitch email template
Here's a step-by-step overview...
Step 1: Build relationships
Approximately one month before we started executing, we divided influencers into two buckets. Ones we already know and engage with, and others that we've just discovered.
For the latter, we started following them on Instagram and engaging on their content... in a cool way, not 💩 meaningless comments.
Objective? Get them to notice us by replying to a comment, DM, or liking their content. By doing so, we don't have to introduce ourselves and the tone is way more friendly. Not everybody noticed of course, but some did.
In our target, there were 3 micro and 9 macro-influencers, from various industries such as TV, photography, food, wine, lifestyle, etc.
Step 2: Keep it simple
Continuing on the previous section, most of the influencers already knew our brand at least a little. With that in mind, we kept the cold email text-only and super short.
Just in case, we had our profile linked in the signature if they wanted to check it out.
FYI, two influencers that we didn't manage to grab the attention of in phase one, they both declined our offer.
Step 3: Easy-to-understand follow-up
If the influencer was interested, we would follow-up with precise details of what we need and what they get in return.
Again, the focus was on keeping a really friendly tone.
Step 4: Working on long-term partnerships
For all the influencers we targeted, we had another project in mind... a long-term one. Therefore, we continued to work on these relationships by personalizing their compensation packages and by analyzing if they hit our expectations.
To hit them, we gave influencers room to create their own Instagram Stories and promote us in any way they see fit. Based on that and how our live meet-up went afterward, we were deciding whether to take things forward.
3 out of 4 influencers passed that test. And obviously, we passed their tests too, as I'm sure they were paying attention on the flip side.
Bottom line
Well, there you have it. Two brand pitch cold email templates to boost your reply rate + tips to make sure your messages land in the primary tab.
Mission accomplished! ✅
If you use these templates, be sure to make them your own.
It's important to adapt the emails to your target audience and the way you speak in real life. Putting in that extra effort can go a long way for you and your business.
Happy cold emailing guys...
lemlist team
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