I emailed 70 consulting partners. No replies. What it taught me
2 days ago
- #consulting-industry
- #relationship-management
- #cold-emailing
- The author, a 15-year-old, sent 70 personalized cold emails to senior consulting partners to ask about relationship tracking but received zero replies.
- The lack of responses suggests that senior partners are overwhelmed with managing relationships and inboxes, not that cold emailing is ineffective or the product idea is wrong.
- Hermann Simon, a notable respondent, confirmed the lack of a structured process for managing relationships in the consulting industry.
- The problem is not effort but awareness; important relationships are lost due to lack of timely alerts about drifting connections.
- Anqer, the author's platform, aims to monitor professional relationships and highlight key contacts needing attention by analyzing email, WhatsApp, and public data.
- The long-term vision for Anqer is an autopilot system that manages outreach automatically in the user's voice.
- The author seeks feedback from consulting partners or professionals managing large networks to refine Anqer.