Idea Extraction question

[juicemania]

So I've just began cold emailing and cold calling a number of people within the industry I've chosen. I'm using a couple different email templates during my cold email process. One that basically says I'm a student doing some research on the particular industry, and the other which says I'm a software developer. I get a much higher response rate (%5-%10) when using the student approach as opposed to saying im a software developer (~1%). Makes sense, most people would wanna help out a student.

My only issue is that I'm not a student and haven't been for about 4 years. Most of what I've read about cold emailing during the IE phase says to use the student approach. This isn't a problem most of the time because people normally don't ask anything about you being a student. But once in a while they do and they want to know what courses your taking, major/minor etc. Has anybody ran into this situation? How'd you handle it?

I've since been using the developer (the truth) approach. Now, I just go straight to cold calling, even though it sucks lol, i've been getting a better response when I just cold call right off the bat.

 

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[Basilius]

O jewip'v fupi dumf ineomoph nztimg, tu dep'v jimq zua xovj vjev. O katv xepvif vu etl og dumf ineomoph ot vji citv xez vu hu. Jewi zua vsoif uvjis djeppimt ug dunnapodevoup? Us dep zua ati tuni lpuxmifhi ecuav vji qiuqmi zua'si ineomoph vu opdsieti vji iphehinipv?

 

[PaulRobert]

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Ci qistotvipv epf vsz vu neli dumf demmoph gap gus zuastimg. Tii ov et e djemmiphi optvief ug tezoph ov "tadlt."

 

[Butschal]

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