KOL Cold Outreach Templates — DM Scripts That Get Replies

Ready-to-use KOL cold outreach templates — DM scripts for Twitter, email pitches, and follow-up sequences designed to get replies from busy influencers.

How to use it

Claude Code
  1. Run the line below. It pulls the whole folder into ~/.claude/skills/kol-outreach.
  2. Describe your job in plain words. Claude Code follows the skill from there.
Claude Code — installs the whole folder, not just SKILL.md
npx degit Gingiris-1031/gingiris-skills/skills/kol-outreach#main ~/.claude/skills/kol-outreach

For one project only, change the path to .claude/skills/kol-outreach.

Claude (web or desktop app)
  1. On this page open ⋯ → Download .md.
  2. Save it as SKILL.md in a folder, zip the folder, then Customize → Skills → + → Create skill → Upload a skill.
  3. Pick the file and Save. Claude shows the name and description and runs a security scan.
  4. Check the skill is switched on.
  5. Start a new chat and describe your job in plain words. The AI follows the skill from there.
ChatGPT or another app
  1. ChatGPT: make a Project and paste it into Instructions.
  2. Neither? Paste it at the top of a new chat — it works for that chat.
Not working?
  • Check which app you pasted it into — the steps above name the right one.
  • Some skills need the paid tier of Claude or ChatGPT.
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Paste into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.

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kol-outreach| 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.https://github.com/Gingiris-1031/gingiris-skills/tree/main/skills/kol-outreach - 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。


KOL Cold Outreach Templates — DM Scripts That Get Replies

🌍 Language / 语言: 中文 | English | 日本語 | 한국어

📦 Install

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

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.

1---
2name: kol-outreach
3description: |
4 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.
5source: https://github.com/Gingiris-1031/gingiris-skills/tree/main/skills/kol-outreach
6tags:
7 - kol-outreach
8 - influencer-marketing
9 - creator-marketing
10 - b2b-influencer
11 - developer-kol
12 - outreach-templates
13 - partnership
14 - cold-outreach
15 - claude-code
16 - ai-agent-skill
17 - agent-skill
18 - latest
19---
20 
21## ⚠️ 2C 产品的渠道调整
22 
23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`。
24 
25---
26# KOL Cold Outreach Templates — DM Scripts That Get Replies
27 
28> 🌍 **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)
29 
30## 📦 Install
31 
32```bash
33clawhub install kol-outreach
34```
35 
36**What you get after installing:**
37- Platform-specific DM scripts for Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn
38- 3-touch cold email templates with 40%+ reply rates
39- Follow-up cadence and partnership structure frameworks
40 
41---
42 
43Stop getting ignored. These templates are battle-tested across 500+ successful creator partnerships.
44 
45- **DM scripts**: Platform-specific templates for Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn
46- **Email sequences**: 3-touch cold email templates with 40%+ reply rates
47- **Value-first approach**: How to pitch so creators want to respond
48- **Follow-up cadence**: When to follow up, how many times, and when to stop
49- **Partnership structures**: Paid vs barter vs affiliate — which to propose when
50 
51## Rate Card & Negotiation Benchmarks (2025–2026 actuals)
52 
53Figures below are *closed-deal* numbers across dozens of campaigns, not list prices:
54 
55| Format | Actual paid range | Notes |
56|---|---|---|
57| X/Twitter quote-tweet | $20–30 in bulk, ~$50 typical | The workhorse unit |
58| X/Twitter thread | $80–200 | 10K-view-tier threads land at $50–200 |
59| Bundle (thread + single post + quote) | ~$150 all-in | Always ask for the bundle price |
60| 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 |
61| Instagram Reels | $30–80 | — |
62| TikTok short video | $100–300 | — |
63| UGC creators | $10–40/post + tiered bonus | e.g. +$20 at 10K views, +$50 at 100K |
64 
65**Negotiation defaults:**
66- First quotes are inflated by design — counter at roughly one-third and expect at least two rounds.
67- Bundles beat singles on unit cost; a polite second discount ask right before publish often lands.
68- Monthly retainers (~$100/mo for 4 quote-tweets) suit teams shipping features weekly.
69- Skip agencies: they can't commit to acquisition numbers and stack margin on top.
70 
71**Where the ROI hides:**
72- 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.
73- 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.
74- Prefer creators who have covered a competitor before (audience pre-validated), and require posting during their followers' active hours.
75- Your vetted creator roster is a cross-product asset; graduate top performers into affiliates so a one-off buy becomes a permanent channel.
76 
77**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.
78 
79## Scene-Bound Hooks & AI-Assisted Pipelines (External Field Reference)
80 
81> 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.
82 
83**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.
84 
85**AI-assisted outreach pipeline — assistant, not replacement:**
86 
87| Stage | Who does it |
88|---|---|
89| Sourcing, profile matching, first-draft personalized email | AI |
90| Sending the email (irreversible), go/no-go, final price | Human |
91 
92- 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.
93- Feed rejections back into the prompt (why a creator was rejected → exclusion criteria next run). Every correction is training data.
94- Rule of thumb: anything irreversible stays human — "someone has to own the mistake."
95 
96**Getting 90%+ fulfillment from paid creators (no magic):**
97- Pay + contract. Paid, signed creators delay (schedule slips happen) but rarely ghost; pure-commission and barter deals are where flaking lives.
98- Prepayment only through PayPal when unavoidable — its dispute window lets you claw back if the creator doesn't deliver.
99- 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.
100- 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.
101- What stays hardest to automate long-term isn't negotiation (AI handles that fine) — it's creative spark and empathy. Budget human time there.
102 
103**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.
104 
105## Related Gingiris Skills
106- Full version: https://clawhub.ai/gingiris-1031/skills/gingiris-launch
107- All skills: https://clawhub.ai/gingiris-1031
108- Follow: [@WeiYipei on X](https://x.com/WeiYipei)
109 

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