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The early window: why a young company is easier to reach

A new company has not chosen its suppliers yet, and the person reading the inbox is usually the person who decides. Both of those stop being true within the first year. Here is the argument, and what it means for who you write to.

  1. 01

    What actually changes

    Nothing about the company’s age changes your email. What changes is who reads it and what they have already committed to. In month one there is no incumbent accountant, insurer, supplier or agency to displace, and the founder is reading their own inbox. By the end of the first year most of those slots are filled, someone else opens the post, and a cold email is asking a company to switch rather than to choose. We have not measured this on our own customers’ sending, and we are not going to quote a number we cannot show you.

  2. 02

    Why the window closes

    A new company has no suppliers yet. The founder reads their own inbox. Every month, choices get made. Routines set in. Gatekeepers arrive. You are not getting worse at email. The door is closing.

  3. 03

    What to do with it

    Point your outreach at the newest firms. Set an agent on new companies in your sector and your patch. Write to them once they are reachable, which is usually a few months in. Same effort, far more replies.

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