Wait, so which banks do I network with?

Some banks seem to be extremely networking heavy (requiring minimum 5+ good connections) and others seem to imply you shouldn't ever be cold emailing anyone there at all.

Despite the breadth of knowledge on this site, there doesn't seem to be any resources that illustrate in one place where specific banks fall on the [Don't Network <---> Network with ****ing everyone] spectrum. Would honestly just appreciate it if we could work towards building some kind of list for prospects. Would save us time and would prevent emails from being sent to people who have no intention of reading them.

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Incredibly person dependant that could change literally any time. No point in building this list just send an email lol. Its a call option that only costs you like 2 min to write. You will never be punished for sending an email unless you were a dumbass on how you did it.

 

There's a lot of banks. Maybe I'm putting too much effort into my emails but it's an incredibly time sink. Just looking for a way to optimize the process and maybe get a picture on when I've hit seriously diminishing returns on networking for a specific bank.

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It takes 1 hour per week max. At most you are sending 3 emails a bank spread across geo and groups. Each email take like 30 seconds. If this is too much of a time sink to you then idk what to say except for best of luck. You hit seriously diminishing returns once someone tells you you are good and that there was no more need to reach out. That could be your first call or tenth call or never. 

 

You are not finding the linkedin, testing the email format, scanning the linkedin, writing something personalized, and spellchecking in that time.

If you want template spam analyst, drop your email address and I will give you some.

Just say no to consulting
 

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