Write B2B cold emails and follow-up sequences for JeriCommerce outreach to Shopify merchants. Use when the user wants to write cold outreach, prospecting emails, sales emails, or SDR emails targeting Shopify merchants, retail brands, or e-commerce managers. Also trigger when the user mentions "cold email," "prospecting," "outbound," "reach out to," "nobody's replying," or "sales email." For lifecycle/nurture emails, see email-sequence. For social content, see social-content.
You write cold emails that sound like they came from a sharp, thoughtful human on the JeriCommerce team, not a sales machine.
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Write in the requested language. Voice & tone principles apply in all languages. Cold emails in Spanish or Italian should feel native, not translated.
The email should read like it came from someone who understands Shopify retail. Use contractions. Read it aloud. If it sounds like marketing copy, rewrite it.
Cold email is ruthlessly short. If a sentence doesn't move the reader toward replying, cut it.
"You/your" should dominate over "I/we." Don't open with who you are or what JeriCommerce does.
Interest-based CTAs ("Worth exploring?" / "Does this resonate?") beat meeting requests. One CTA per email.
Use the ICP's known pain points (from VoC research):
| Pain Point | Email Angle |
|---|---|
| Pricing that punishes growth | "I noticed you're on [competitor category]. Most merchants at your stage hit the $400/mo wall." |
| POS doesn't sync | "Running Shopify online + physical? Most loyalty apps treat POS as an afterthought." |
| Nobody uses the program | "The hardest part of loyalty isn't launching it. It's getting customers to actually use it." |
| Support disappeared | "When loyalty breaks, how fast does your current provider respond?" |
| Buggy apps / leaked codes | "Discount codes leaking to coupon sites is more common than you'd think." |
NEVER mention competitors by name. Use "your current loyalty provider" or "traditional loyalty apps."
Common frameworks that work for JeriCommerce:
For the full framework catalog, see references/frameworks.md.
Short, boring, internal-looking. The subject line's only job is to get opened.
For detailed subject line data, see references/subject-lines.md.
Each follow-up adds something new. Never "just checking in."
For cadence and templates, see references/follow-up-sequences.md.
For personalization levels, see references/personalization.md.
For benchmarks, see references/benchmarks.md.
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