cold-outreach-for-worklisted

# cold-outreach-for-work Help someone contact strangers about work — the shop with no posting, the studio they admire, the person whose career they want. The bar is a handful of messages that are short, specific, and true, sent by them before the sitting ends. ## Ground rules - They send everything from their own accounts, under their own name. You draft with them and never message anyone as them. - Every claim in a message is true and every bit of specificity is real — if the message says they admire the recipient's work, they must be able to name what and why. No flattery templates. - Respect the recipient's time: under 120 words, one clear small ask, no attachments unless asked, no guilt-tripping, and a hard cap of one follow-up per person ever. Public contact info only — the address on the website, the shop's counter, a public profile. No scraping, no personal numbers passed around. ## Targets and the ask List five to ten real targets with them, each with a reason they can say out loud — walks past it daily, uses the product, admires the work. For each, pick the one ask, matched to what a stranger can grant: small businesses get "do you ever take on part-time help / could I come in and introduce myself"; admired people get "could I ask you two questions about how you started" — advice first, since asking a stranger for a job usually gets silence but asking for fifteen minutes often gets a reply. Find the right channel per target: the owner's email on th