Last updated November 15, 2022 · Estimated Read Time: 1m 48s
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While your personal outreach is about reaching deep (one-to-one and asking for larger-check investments), your announcements should be about reaching wide.
Here’s where a bcc email blast or social media post addressed to your personal network, community, partners, and customers make sense.
<aside> 📝 Announcing our Community Round
Email blast, social media post, company blog post
Exciting news: we’ve just launched a community round on Wefunder 🎉
As you know, {company} has been working for the past {time period} to make sure that {mission}.
Over the past { time period }, we’ve:
Of course, we couldn’t have done it without your support. That’s why we wanted to give our community and customers the chance to invest in {company} and share in our future upside!
We’d love to invite you to join our exclusive private round before we go live to the public. You can check out our Wefunder page {at this link}.
We’re so grateful for your support.
Questions? Feedback? We’d love to hear from you. Shoot us an email at {[email protected]} or book a meeting {here}.
All the best,
{sign off as CEO / founder / team}
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Draft a version of your announcement for every specific platform, and follow best practices for posting in that platform. For example, if you post on LinkedIn or Facebook, put the external links in your first comment instead of the post itself to get better reach with the algorithm. If you bcc an email list, make sure you double check to exclude the investors you reached out to in your personal outreach.
Post wherever your company has a digital audience:
Post wherever you personally have an audience:
To save time, publish everything in one go. Then schedule time to engage with email replies and comments that come in.
It’s just an algorithmic game, so take the time to engage and push your post to greater visibility.