Kol Outreach

SKILL.md

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name: kol-outreach
description: |
  Ready-to-use KOL cold outreach templates — DM scripts for Twitter, email pitches, and follow-up sequences designed to get replies from busy influencers. Tested across 500+ creator partnerships. By @WeiYipei.
source: https://github.com/Gingiris-1031/gingiris-skills/tree/main/skills/kol-outreach
tags:
  - kol-outreach
  - influencer-marketing
  - creator-marketing
  - b2b-influencer
  - developer-kol
  - outreach-templates
  - partnership
  - cold-outreach
  - claude-code
  - ai-agent-skill
  - agent-skill
  - latest
---

## ⚠️ 2C 产品的渠道调整

本 skill 默认 dev / B2B 渠道。**2C 消费品 / 教育 / 应用**：获客主战场是 **垂类社区 + 短视频 + 垂直 KOL**，按地区公开数据选第一平台（如印尼/泰国短视频已反超 Facebook）。KOL 优先 nano / micro 垂类——粉丝越多互动率越低，micro > mega 性价比更高。完整 2C 渠道数据库 + 公开来源见 → `gingiris-seo-geo/references/2c-adaptation.md`。

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# KOL Cold Outreach Templates — DM Scripts That Get Replies

> 🌍 **Language / 语言**: [中文](#中文版) | [English](references/en/README.md) | [日本語](references/ja/README.md) | [한국어](references/ko/README.md)

## 📦 Install

```bash
clawhub install kol-outreach
```

**What you get after installing:**
- Platform-specific DM scripts for Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn
- 3-touch cold email templates with 40%+ reply rates
- Follow-up cadence and partnership structure frameworks

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Stop getting ignored. These templates are battle-tested across 500+ successful creator partnerships.

- **DM scripts**: Platform-specific templates for Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn
- **Email sequences**: 3-touch cold email templates with 40%+ reply rates
- **Value-first approach**: How to pitch so creators want to respond
- **Follow-up cadence**: When to follow up, how many times, and when to stop
- **Partnership structures**: Paid vs barter vs affiliate — which to propose when

## Rate Card & Negotiation Benchmarks (2025–2026 actuals)

Figures below are *closed-deal* numbers across dozens of campaigns, not list prices:

| Format | Actual paid range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| X/Twitter quote-tweet | $20–30 in bulk, ~$50 typical | The workhorse unit |
| X/Twitter thread | $80–200 | 10K-view-tier threads land at $50–200 |
| Bundle (thread + single post + quote) | ~$150 all-in | Always ask for the bundle price |
| YouTube dedicated video | $600–800 for sub-100K channels | $1,500 absolute cap — only when avg views 10K+ AND <100K subs AND prior same-category work |
| Instagram Reels | $30–80 | — |
| TikTok short video | $100–300 | — |
| UGC creators | $10–40/post + tiered bonus | e.g. +$20 at 10K views, +$50 at 100K |

**Negotiation defaults:**
- First quotes are inflated by design — counter at roughly one-third and expect at least two rounds.
- Bundles beat singles on unit cost; a polite second discount ask right before publish often lands.
- Monthly retainers (~$100/mo for 4 quote-tweets) suit teams shipping features weekly.
- Skip agencies: they can't commit to acquisition numbers and stack margin on top.

**Where the ROI hides:**
- Sweet-spot creators: **1–3K followers with 500–3,000 average views** — these KOCs frequently out-convert big accounts per dollar. Second sweet spot: sub-100K subs with 10K+ average views.
- The volume play: one hero post amplified by 50–120 paid quote-tweets can reach ~700K impressions and trigger organic pile-on (field record: 120 quotes → ~700K views plus ~50 unpaid quotes). Measured conversion favors quotes over threads — tilt budget accordingly.
- Prefer creators who have covered a competitor before (audience pre-validated), and require posting during their followers' active hours.
- Your vetted creator roster is a cross-product asset; graduate top performers into affiliates so a one-off buy becomes a permanent channel.

**Reply-rate expectations by channel (measured):** Telegram DM 20–30% · creator email 17.3% (beats DMs — lead with email) · LinkedIn DM 10–15% · cold expert outreach ~11% · Twitter DM 1–5% (verified account required). No email reply → follow up once via LinkedIn.

## Scene-Bound Hooks & AI-Assisted Pipelines (External Field Reference)

> Source: Seven Wang Yue (co-founder, Superlinear — Lessie people-search AI agent ~100K users + DeepLink influencer agency, 100+ brands served, $7-8M ARR, 90%+ paid-creator fulfillment), interviewed on Monica出海说, 2026-07.

**The most expensive brief mistake: cramming 6-8 selling points into a 15-60s video.** That's under 4 seconds per point — scroll-mode viewers retain none of them. The fix is *scene binding*: pick 1-2 selling points and wrap them in the creator's native scenario. A workplace creator opens with "my boss made me stay late for this — I finished it in 5 minutes"; a photography creator opens with "rescuing my ruined shots in one second." Work backwards from the scene to creator selection: office tools → workplace creators, image/video-gen tools → photography or entertainment creators. One well-bound point converts that creator's audience; eight stacked points convert nobody.

**AI-assisted outreach pipeline — assistant, not replacement:**

| Stage | Who does it |
|---|---|
| Sourcing, profile matching, first-draft personalized email | AI |
| Sending the email (irreversible), go/no-go, final price | Human |

- Measured lift: one ops person's monthly outreach went from **20 creators to 80-100** (3-4x). Old way: 20 pages of LinkedIn plus per-profile verification; new way: one prompt, a 1-2 minute wait, then human review of the list.
- Feed rejections back into the prompt (why a creator was rejected → exclusion criteria next run). Every correction is training data.
- Rule of thumb: anything irreversible stays human — "someone has to own the mistake."

**Getting 90%+ fulfillment from paid creators (no magic):**
- Pay + contract. Paid, signed creators delay (schedule slips happen) but rarely ghost; pure-commission and barter deals are where flaking lives.
- Prepayment only through PayPal when unavoidable — its dispute window lets you claw back if the creator doesn't deliver.
- Promise content quality (creator's average production level, brand-approved before publish), never promise conversion or signup numbers — those depend on landing page and checkout, not the creator.
- Review gates: script approved before filming, video approved before publish. Brief the creator on the product first — an untrained creator produces a flat feature-list video.
- What stays hardest to automate long-term isn't negotiation (AI handles that fine) — it's creative spark and empathy. Budget human time there.

**Market read:** North America + Japan/Korea are the base; LatAm — especially Brazil's solo-operator SMBs paying for AI productivity tools — is underrated, while SEA/South Asia converts poorly. Matches our own field data (same budget: 12 LatAm conversions vs 3 US). Use AI translation for small-language outreach, but keep one culturally-native reviewer for taboos.

## Related Gingiris Skills
- Full version: https://clawhub.ai/gingiris-1031/skills/gingiris-launch
- All skills: https://clawhub.ai/gingiris-1031
- Follow: [@WeiYipei on X](https://x.com/WeiYipei)