Cold Emailing a work address v. a personal address

I know that in general when you're cold emailing you're supposed to do it between 8-9 so it will be at the top of their inbox when they get into the office. I've found some personal email addresses through my alumni association's database and I'm wondering if you do it to their personal address (not a work email) is it better to do it later in the day perhaps 6 or 7 when they might get home and check their personal email accounts?

 

Do you have their work emails? If so, I would just email those as personal email seems a little invasive. In my opinion, they are better suited to respond to you on their work emails than personal because they are in the "work mode".

As for times sake, just send your cold emails at night so they will have it there early next morning.

 

if their personal emails are on your alumni directory, i would assume that it is okay to contact them through their personal emails....but I'd only do it if I didn't have their work contact information. To be honest, I'm almost certain most people have all their emails forwarded to one account, and are checking it 24/7. During my internship, that's what all my managing directors did. And what I mean by checking it 24/7, I mean that if you send an email at 9-10PM at night, they'll get a ring on their phone.

 

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