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Email Marketing for Investment Firms Is Harder Than Ever—Here’s How to Fix It (Fast)

Email Marketing for Investment Firms Is Harder Than Ever—Here’s How to Fix It (Fast)

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🔥 2015-2019: The Golden Age of Cold Email

Just a few years ago, sending outbound emails to LPs or prospects was incredibly easy.

Investment firms could buy a list, plug it into an email tool, and watch meetings roll in. A well-crafted email sequence could get 30% reply rates, with 90% open rates. (This sounds totally impossible, I know).

Daniel Greaves, co-founder of FuelToFly and an active fund manager himself, remembers it well:

“Back then, you could get leads for literally a tenth of what it cost to run ads. We were seeing 30-33% reply rates. It was unreal.”

Fast forward to 2025, and those same emails barely hit 4% reply rates—even for the best firms using top-tier tools. What changed? 🚨

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