Katharine Jiang

WizIntro - Make warm intros in 30 seconds without writing an email

- WizIntro helps you make or request a warm intro in 30 seconds
- No more email writing for anyone! Forward, accept, or decline requests with a push of a button
- A centralized location to view all intro requests

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Katharine Jiang
Hey everyone 👋 Ever think to yourself, "Why did I just spend 3 hours writing warm intro emails?" This is me perpetually. Katharine & the WizForm team here - we launched the company in April and throughout the process, we were frustrated with the 100+ hours spent writing emails to ask mutuals to connect us with someone and the additional 100+ hours spent writing emails to connect others. We built WizIntro to make the warm intro process simpler, less time consuming, and more efficient. How? 🕗 30 SECOND INTROS - make a warm intro request to a mutual connection with a simple form. 📥 NO EMAILS - mutual connections and the person you want to connect with can easily accept or decline the request with a click of a button. We automatically forward accepted requests so you don’t have to write a single email. 📁 STAY ORGANIZED - view all your intro requests in a single dashboard. I’ll be online to answer any questions or feedback! Please feel free to reach out to our team at support@wizform.com anytime :)
Joseph Abraham
@wizform @katharine_jiang : Love the idea, this is truly great in the world of cold-hearted reachouts 😬 I did not get how it works though Katharine? What was your vision behind this?
Hardy Farrow
@wizform @katharine_jiang @saascoach Joseph, thanks for the feedback! Here's how it works: 1. Find someone that you want to talk to but you don't know directly. 2. Find a friend that knows that person. For example, you could see that the friend is a 2nd degree connection with that person on LinkedIn. 3. Type in your friend's email into our tool and ask them to reach out to the target. 4. Click send and then we take it care of it from there. This should reduce the amount of time you spend on writing highly custom emails asking for intro requests.
Joseph Abraham
@wizform @katharine_jiang @hardy_farrow : That's awesome, sure will ask my team to give it a try :)
Aditya
?makers Congratulations on the launch!! This is god-sent 🤩 I just tried it and it works amazingly!! A few things I would suggest :) 1. The flow is (Initiator -> Mutual Connection -> Target) At present, the message between the initiator and the mutual connection is also shared with the target. I would not want that conversation to be shared with the target. Also, can there be to and fro between the initiator and the mutual, or the mutual and the target... to create a one-to-many sort of relationship, where mutual or the target can add more people to the flow. 2. Can the messages be updated on the dashboard as well? I received the emails but I would like to see them on the dashboard too. I understand this product may be at a very early stage but I see so much potential in it 😍
Katharine Jiang
@adityavsc Thanks so much Aditya! 1. That's a great point, we will hide that initial message. A sort of relationship graph is definitely something that is on the horizon. 2. Do you mean you want to see the email thread in the dashboard as well?
Aditya
@katharine_jiang Awesome! Love the product btw. Keeping track of intros on the email is such a task :( 2. Yes, presently, the dashboard just shows the names of the contacts and the status of the intro. Would be great if one could see the message sent to the mutual contact and the target. Will give a better perspective of the intro, without leaving the dashboard for the email inbox.
Katharine Jiang
@adityavsc Got it, we'll work on an "expand for details" right away :)
Alex Madrzyk
This is so dope, wish I had this when searching for jobs as a new grad! Congrats on the launch and awesome work y’all! 🎉
Katharine Jiang
@alex_madrzyk Thanks so much Alex!
Sean Thielen-Esparza
Making sure all of the new grads in my circle get their hands on this. Great job!
Katharine Jiang
@xaelophone Thanks Sean!!
Payas Parab
This is an excellent idea. Have you given any thought to incentives for introductions? For example if you have mutual connections that you don't necessarily know all that well (had one class with them), but they have even a tangential connection to someone high up/busy that would be critical for you to get connected to, what is their incentive to participate? In your experience, what was the yield on warm intros? In your experience, could an incentive to make introduction helped or just seem cheesy/forced/etc? @jorrel_s
Hardy Farrow
@jorrel_s @payas_parab Thanks for the feedback! We haven't thought about incentives because we didn't want to make it "too" transactional. We believe its important that the target understands how well the middle-person knows the initiator (they get to rate them from 1-5 stars on how well they know them). If we offered incentives into it, it might ruin the trust factor. In terms of the yield, I typically see around 33% return on warm intros. It really depends on how well the middle-person knows the target (it could be a random LinkedIn connection or a best friend) and how relevant your ask is for the target person.
Payas Parab
@jorrel_s @hardy_farrow Thanks for the response. I am agreed on the trust factor being something tricky to mitigate, I guess context of what the warm intros are for are important.
Zoe Chew
@katharine_jiang Love the product idea, it really helps to solve the problem of re-writing email intros and needed to find a way to keep track of the status - I did it in a spreadsheet or Notion currently. Just tested it out and would love to see future features to be build - (1) sync with a CRM, or has built-in CRM that syncs with my gmail contacts (2) a Chrome extension that can easily look up the LinkedIn profile of a person, then add them to "make intro" via WizIntro.
Hardy Farrow
@katharine_jiang @whizzzoe These are awesome suggestions. We will definitely add these to future features on the roadmap!
Kanaad Parvate
Awesome product! Congrats on the launch!!
Katharine Jiang
@kanaadvp Thanks Kanaad!
Jake Tital
Love this product idea. I know this will totally help save me time with all the intros i make for my colleagues.
Hardy Farrow
@jaketital Thanks for the kind words!
Justin Duan
Making warm intros is probably the highest leverage thing you can do, but unfortunately requesting them and writing those emails are a huge huge time suck. WizIntro is a massive help for this and saves me tons of time and headspace. HIGHLY recommend trying it out for anyone who makes 1+ intros/week!!
Katharine Jiang
@justin_duan Thank you so much Justin! We're hoping to save everyone hundreds of hours of email writing :)
Kevin Lau
Intros have always been a massive time suck, so SUPER excited to see this idea being worked on! I can definitely see myself become a power user. Only major feature request at this point is allowing for double-opt in so both the person who wants the intro and person being intro-ed are aware of each other and feel good about the intro before the introducer makes it happen. Could turn into a nice user acquisition mechanism too if implemented correctly :)
Hardy Farrow
@kevin_lau2 Thanks for the feedback! The way the tool works is that the initiator can't talk to the target unless the target accepts. The double-opt in could be more explicitly laid out in our UI but it's implied.
Udara Jay
This is awesome @katharine_jiang! Already trying it, I can totally see how this can serve a nice use case for building out your network!
Hardy Farrow
@katharine_jiang @ujzeee Thanks for trying it out!
Ali Jasem
This is a great idea! Do you think you will be able to do something like this with LinkedIn messages as well as email? :D
Hardy Farrow
@ali_jasem We are looking into this! LinkedIn has some strict requirements around cold messages vs. warm messages and how many of each you can send. It's definitely a use case we are thinking about.
Gibson Chu
This is fantastic! Can't wait to start using this and seeing how this will smooth out the transition of reaching out to people.
Hardy Farrow
@gibsontchu Thanks for the kind words!
Gregory B
Hello, @katharine_jiang ! I really love the idea, it's great and it could save my time. I tried WizIntro, but filling all the forms is taking me more time, than writing emails. Also, I like intros management system - that is the thing, that I'm looking for right now. It seems that your service doesn't work right now. I send the test into to myself and didn't receive the email. where can I watch a demo? Please contact me when it's ready)
Hardy Farrow
@katharine_jiang @new_user_99340ef569 Hi there! Thanks for the kind words! If you reach out to us at support@wizform.com with what you are trying to do, we can look into what's going wrong. Are you using different emails for all 3 parts of the process (initiator, middle-person, target)? I usually just use my base email and then do something like baseemail+123@emailaddress.com for middle-man and the target.
Carlo Thissen
Love the premise of facilitating warm intros 😊
Katharine Jiang
@carlo_thissen Thank you Carlo!
Aishwarya Ashok
Congratulations, @katharine_jiang! This is awesome, love the idea behind the product. :) The UX is fairly simple too, and it blends well with the 'quick and short' value you're promoting. I agree with @adityavsc for showing the message (atleast parts of it) right on the dashboard so it's easy for me to quickly glance and recollect (and manage). A few other thoughts I had: - The intro screen could show the whole initiator—mutual—target flow. Not saying the terms are confusing, but a quick GIF or a step-by-step showcase of this quick process could definitely entice someone to start trying right away. - Another thing I've noticed about connecting with people through intros is that most of them also look out for your social profiles—it's an easy way for them to check out the stuff you're into and that could also help them to accept the request. So how about syncing social profiles to your account and picking the ones you may want to go with each request? - This is in a longer run though—a relationship map that shows all the target and mutual contacts connections. For example, a person A is the mutual and they introduced you to three targets, then the tree keeps growing, it'll be awesome to visually look at this map as well as tactically manage requests and messages under each. [in a way, you can just look up a mutual and click + to initiate a new request] All the best and super excited to see where this goes. :) Cheers, Aishwarya
Charles Naut
So awesome! Really useful
Terry Chen
Very cool concept. I can see the mutual person can potentially be flooded with a bunch of requests. I wonder if it's better and easier for the mutual person to simply reply with the target's email address, and let the system do the magic.
JoyQR
Cool Product! Will share with my teammates for easy reach-out. Congrats on the launch!
Mu Ye
This seems like a very useful tool and a big time saver. Congrats on the launch!