How to Contact Investors By Email

 Amanda Frazier is a 25 year old serial Entrepreneur with ADD, Founder of Synergy Hub, & CEO of Plan to Start.

This is a great guide I put together with some tips, to do’s, what not to do’s, and approaches for you guys on how to contact investors by email.  Because it can be really frustrating when you can’t grab someone’s attention, or no investor emails you back.  So  enjoy.

Before You Contact Investors

It’s very important to have everything ready before you contact any investor.  Investors typically get over 500 emails a day, and probably won’t remember you the next day.  So if you got him/her on the hook, you need to respond immediately.  Have your powerpoint, one page summary, and complete 5 year financial projections ready.  The financial projections are where you need to spend a good amount of time, since all investments are a financial transaction.  EZ Numbers has a great tool for this issue, it will factor in your taxes, revenue, expenses, investor reports, founder’s equity, breakeven, etc.

check over your financials a couple times (just one salary or tax miscalculation can throw off your profit margin to where it won’t work for an investor!)

Don’t worry too much about the actual business plan yet, reality is it usually is never asked for until the due diligence phase.  

If you’ve got everything else ready, now it’s time for How to Contact Investors by Email: