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title: Friday Sales Memo | Episode 16
description: Stop opening your emails with ‘I hope you’re well’. The Founder of SDRs of London talks through the 5x5x5 method and what cold emails he does read.
image: https://www.kaspr.io/hubfs/Video%20hub%20thumbnails/Friday%20sales%20memo/EN-friday-sales-memo-if-I-was-an-sdr-today.webp
---

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#### Friday sales memo

# Emails that get replies

“Hey Lewis, I hope you’re well” = ❌

 

Stop using this as your email opener. Lewis Gadsdon, Founder of SDRs of London talks us through the 5x5x5 method and what cold emails he does read. Watch the full clip now. 👉

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![](https://www.kaspr.io/hubfs/Video%20hub%20thumbnails/Friday%20sales%20memo/EN-friday-sales-memo-emails-that-get-replies.webp)

Emails that get replies

 02:07 

](https://www.kaspr.io/pod-friday-sales-memo-16#video-modal-dnd_area_dnd_partial_1_module_6)

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 02:49 

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Emails that get replies

 02:07 

](https://www.kaspr.io/pod-friday-sales-memo-16)

[![](https://www.kaspr.io/hubfs/Video%20hub%20thumbnails/Friday%20sales%20memo/EN-friday-sales-memo-hiring-experienced-sdrs.webp)

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 01:16 

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 02:19 

](https://www.kaspr.io/pod-friday-sales-memo-15)

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 02:49 

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 02:19 

](https://www.kaspr.io/pod-friday-sales-memo-9)

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### Cold emailing tips

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 00:52 

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Preview text is more important than you think

 00:49 

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 00:40 

](https://www.kaspr.io/pod-the-spark-3)

[![](https://www.kaspr.io/hubfs/Video%20hub%20thumbnails/horizontal-placeholder.jpg) ![spark-episode-1-subject-line (1)-compressed](https://www.kaspr.io/hubfs/spark-episode-1-subject-line%20(1)-compressed.jpg)

Write better subject lines

 00:55 

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