{"id":24950,"date":"2024-01-25T20:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=24950"},"modified":"2024-01-26T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:02:53","slug":"how-to-cold-email-with-a-fear-of-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/01\/25\/how-to-cold-email-with-a-fear-of-rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"How to cold email with a fear of rejection?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AW01252024-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AW01252024-7.jpg\" alt=\"How to cold email with a fear of rejection?\" class=\"wp-image-24936\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How to cold email with a fear of rejection?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It heavily depends on what kind of cold email you&#8217;re writing, but marketing industry estimates are that less than 10% get a response. If it&#8217;s something more personal your odds are better. I don&#8217;t generally recommend catastrophizing, but here&#8217;s a case where you can assume &#8220;no&#8221; and be pleasantly surprised if you get &#8220;yes&#8221;. That helps some of my library colleagues, and might help you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It heavily depends on what kind of cold email you&#8217;re writing, but marketing industry estimates are that less than 10% get a response. If it&#8217;s something more personal your odds are better. I don&#8217;t generally recommend catastrophizing, but here&#8217;s a case where you can assume &#8220;no&#8221; and be pleasantly surprised if you get &#8220;yes&#8221;. That &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/01\/25\/how-to-cold-email-with-a-fear-of-rejection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to cold email with a fear of rejection?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24950"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24973,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950\/revisions\/24973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}