What's the Worst Mistake You Have Made In a Cold Email?

For the second time in about 5 months, I sent something to a man starting with "Ms. XYZ" The first time, I guess he didn't notice or didn't care cause he followed up and put me in contact with a consultant in charge of recruiting. This time, I'm hoping I'm as lucky.

But I'm wondering what's the worst typo or mistake you've made in a cold e-mail?

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zeroblued

put the wrong peron's name and listed the wrong company. the guy actually went out of the way to respond... he was an MD too

Same thing happened to me.

Guy responded, "He's with another firm". Oh man.

I triple or quad check my e-mails now.

 

Spelled a BB VP's name wrong. It was especially bad since I wrote "Hello Brain" instead of "Brian" and it was the first sentence in the e-mail. My friends still laugh at me to this day.

 

Spelled names wrong and all that jazz. People will react differently, but you keep moving to the next one without errors.

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