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Automated cold e-mails for sales people?
- erikj54 13y agoI decided to teach myself some ruby this afternoon. The idea is that using Mustache, and a list of names, a salesperson would be able to automate some of the targeted e-mails they send to a market vertical. ie: Imagine going after a single industry and having target material including attachments, white papers and a good template. The offer can include coffee, along with their name and company. Looking for some feedback on usefulness compared to MailChimp or tools.
- darkmethod 13y agoHonest question. Is this any different from spam? The end users of MailChimp require double opt-in before being signed up for receiving news letters, email, whatever, etc. Your use of "Automated cold e-mails" in the headline sounds oddly similar of spam to me.
- erikj54 13y agoIt is spam. There is no doubt, the goal at least from my perspective as someone who has been experimenting with sales and selling is to send a quick note that is hopefully a bit personalized and allows them to be interested in your product...this script obviously allows you to do that at scale.
- pastaking 13y agoI made something like this a while back, but after some research I found that it's illegal to send unsolicited emails and you could be fined by the FTC. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's ok to open source the code so people can use it at their own discretion, but making it into an actual product would run into legal troubles?