Mass Effect of Mailing: “Blind Courtesy Copy” Technique
Here, at Dropshiparea, we contact each supplier that is on our list personally in order to send feedback and discuss the major issues and the existing problems. You can use our trustworthy list for your purposes and remember that the major advantage of collaborating with a wholesale supplier is that you don’t have to store any products.
Do you remember how you set up your first account with a supplier (or think how you are going to do it). It is likely that you are going to find a number of wholesale suppliers that offer the product you are looking for. And then you will probably write e-mails to these suppliers asking to set up new account for you.
Now I would like to cover the technical aspect of such letters.
When you write a letter of this kind you fill in the “To” field with the name of the supplier and “from” field is occupied by your own email
For instance:
To: WholesaleSupplierName@gmail.com
From: YourName@gmail.com
Subject: Setting Up an Account with Your Company
It is perfectly all right if you send this letter to only one supplier. But if you have found 10 or 100 supplier that offer the desirable product and you want to send set up account with all of them and later on decide which of them is the best. In this case your letter will look like this:
To: WholesaleSupplierName@gmail.com, WholesaleSupplier2Name@gmail.com, WholesaleSupplier3Name@gmail.com,…, WholesaleSupplierNName@gmail.com
From: YourName@gmail.com
Subject: Setting Up an Account with Your Company
Do you think that the company that receives such a letter will really think that you are going to choose it from the list of other companies? It might be quite fine, but do you know that setting up an account requires a lot of paperwork for a supplier? As a rule, there is a special employee who is responsible for such tasks. And if the company sees that your e-mail is just a Mass mail, why should they want to collaborate with you and waster their time and effort?
You have to do this mass mailing sensibly
Do not put all the e-mail addresses (I mean the addresses of the suppliers you write to) in the “to” field of your letter. It is much better to use “BCC” field (Blind Courtesy Copy). In this case the recipient will see only one e-mail address and this might work.
But there is one problem. As you send letters to dozens of suppliers and you can put only one address in the “to” field of your letter, only the first supplier on the list gets the letter addressed to it, all the other recipients get email addressed to the first supplier. This might look suspicious. But, again, there is a way out.
Create a new account in your email address book and name it something like “the preferred wholesale supplier” and insert your own e-mail address there. When you write the letter put this contact in the “to” field, and all the other addresses in the “BCC” field. When the emails are receiver by the recipients they will see “the preferred wholesale supplier” in the “to” field and they will not notice anything suspicious.
Remember: the majority of companies will consider mass mailing to be junk and won’t even answer to your letters.
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