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Customer interviews: How to always get a yes

Hannah Shamji · Wynter Free Intermediate

A focused guide on the recruiting outreach itself, with a message template you can adapt. It covers who to ask, how to word the request so it does not read as a sales pitch, and how to raise your reply rate. Handy when you know the theory but your actual outreach is getting ignored.

  • Tell people why you picked them and that you are not selling anything
  • Keep the invitation short, specific, and easy to say yes to
  • A reusable outreach template saves you rewriting the same ask repeatedly
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It answers 2 questions

  1. Where do I find people to interview when I have zero audience?
  2. How many people should I talk to, and how do I find them?

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