Cold Emails - How to Get Responses and Land Composing Work

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@ZachHeyde 8 ай бұрын

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@alvarorodriguezfilmmusic Жыл бұрын

Absolute gold. I also love the fact that you mentioned that there's only so much that's actually under our control (as cold 'emailers' I mean). Keep up the good work Zach. I love this kind of content!💪

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

Thank you Alvaro!!

@emanuel_soundtrack Жыл бұрын

Really cool you showing your mails. My respect

@JDM_Score Жыл бұрын

Great video, Zach! Lots of takeaways that I will definitely be implementing!

@BigBrainCoding Жыл бұрын

Accurate and pretty simple tips to follow, thanks a ton!

@jondaremusic Жыл бұрын

Amazing. Thank you for sharing your cold email advice!

@marialazarevamusic Жыл бұрын

Great video! Much appreciated! Thank you for sharing in details your personal experience.

@jordendavismusic Жыл бұрын

Excellent video! I definitely struggle with brevity, so those reminders are especially relevant for me!

@blue-balance Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Zach. Very much enjoying your outstanding content!

@jeremyvelez9791 Жыл бұрын

Great advices! Thank you!

@roger.escorsa Жыл бұрын

Thanks again for sharing your experience and knowledge! Your channel is helping me a lot, you are sooo underrated! Greetings from Spain

@stretchbatchelor Жыл бұрын

Honored fir sharing. Brevity is always the best groove 💪🤠

@vickychammah 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Zach! Super helpful! I am a songwriter specializing in a more singer/songwriter style of music, but I will adjust this email examples to my niche - It was very very helpful, thanks again! Greetings from Argentina!

@HeyItsPaul Жыл бұрын

Perfectly said! I will add one thing to keep in mind. If you happen to be emailing to a music supervisor, they generally will as for no attachments as their inboxes get incredibly full. They generally will prefer an easy to stream service like box or dropbox. I agree that google drive is too much of a pain. This makes me want to go back and cringe over my emails from 10 years ago!

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

Great tip Paul!

@jamesthistleton Жыл бұрын

Great video! This immediately encouraged me to reach out to a composer for assistant work. Thank you!

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

Heck yeah!!

@alexandervivian Жыл бұрын

Thank you for video! Nice shirt, by the way... Oh, and... I appreciate your time... no pressure :D

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

Thanks John 😁🙌

@iamfrankbiesta Жыл бұрын

Thanks again Zach (hey - I spelled your name right! 🙂) for some very useful tips!

@rolfgustavsonmusic Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Zach! What a great video on an important topic. How about subject lines? Do you have any specific thoughts regarding them? Or should this perhaps be the topic of my cold email to you? Kidding, of course!

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

Haha 😂 Good question--personally I keep it very brief and to the point. "Composer reaching out" is one I use quite a bit, or "Following up" for a follow up. Sometimes I won't use a subject at all, but I have a feeling there's differing opinions on that.

@lownotesinc1962 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@lownotesinc1962 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, spot on! Thank you!!

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😁

@linusolssonmusic Жыл бұрын

I'll a propose a topic. I am curious if you could talk about advice and tips on file naming and general folder organizing? preferably for the hobbyist. I ask in part cause it's a problem I am experiencing myself.

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

Great suggestion--I actually talk about that exact subject in my Composition Hacks course! I'll link it below if you want to check it out 👍🏻 www.zachheyde.com/store/composition-hacks

@Humcred Жыл бұрын

So I had this guy respond to one of my question on reddit, I pm'd him with more details then he brought up how he works at a huge music library. He gave me his email and told me to message him some of my work, portfolio anytime. I'm still new to this and didn't have work at the time. Well that was a month ago. How do I go about emailing him? What should the subject line of the email be? I don't want him to think I'm spam or just another unsolicalted email.

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

Good question! If I were in your situation I'd keep both the subject and the body super short. A subject like "Follow up (via Reddit)" should do fine, and the body can just quickly remind him who you are and throw a link to your reel. I'd also try and request a 10-minute phone call to ask him some quick questions (prepare those in advance, and ask good ones), and then leave it at that. No guarantees that there will always be work to follow, but wish you the best of luck!

@astralhorizons Жыл бұрын

nice... but what's a cold email?

@ohno_notes Жыл бұрын

Hey Zach I have a question? When you say to wait a month to send a second follow up do you mean wait a month after the first follow up? Or do you mean wait two more weeks equaling a month in total?

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

Hey there! There's no hard and fast rule--I usually wait a full month before my second followup, because I figure if they didn't respond to my first then they may be too busy for me to contact any sooner. The full month may clear out their schedule a bit--but that's really up to you and case by case!

@ohno_notes Жыл бұрын

@@ZachHeyde So thats a month in total between the two follow ups potentially?

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

That's right! Sometimes longer--I've sent follow ups a year later and found work from it 👍🏻

@ohno_notes Жыл бұрын

@@ZachHeyde Thanks Zach!

@VillemR Жыл бұрын

Otherwise great advice. But I've heard the exact opposite about sending mp3-s. These people might recieve 10-s of files a day and it will clog up their inbox. So people might not even open the email if there's an attachment or auto sort it to trash. From what I've heard everybody wants a link.

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

That's totally fair and I could understand that perspective! And I think regardless of the method, the link or attachment should be tested first to make sure it opens smoothly--I got hit with a lot of 30 second ads on SoundCloud before I could listen to some applicant's submissions, which could be problematic for someone busier than me!

@VillemR Жыл бұрын

@@ZachHeyde totally agree, less clicks is definitely important for communication

@aduaneicoplan2623 Жыл бұрын

send a normal (not so brief)e-mail = show that you don't respect other people's time? That's so picky. It just means the person wrote you a normal email, nothing serious...

@ZachHeyde Жыл бұрын

You can send an email of any length you like, but my point is that you're less likely to get a response from someone who has a very busy schedule--they just don't have the time to read through longer emails, and would much rather read an email that gets straight to the point.