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Glossary

What is cold outreach?

Cold outreach is contacting a prospect with no prior relationship. Email, LinkedIn, phone, SMS — any channel where the recipient doesn't recognize the sender.

Cold vs warm

Warm: introduced by a mutual connection or responding to your content. Cold: nobody warned them you were coming.

Why cold outreach still works

Most decision-makers can't be reached via inbound or referral on a quarterly cadence. Cold is the only consistent channel for reaching new buyers at scale.

Cold-outreach failure modes

Generic openers, no specificity, asking for too much in the first message, ignoring signal that the prospect is wrong-fit.

Cold outreach with Infonet

AI personalization makes cold feel warm: the first message references something specific to the prospect, and the LinkedIn profile shows up in their notification feed before the email lands. Multi-channel, paced like a human.

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