Cold Email Cold Phone Call

Phone Script

Intro

• 1 line self intro - my name is alex, i work at an 501c3 education nonprofit that develops open source industrial machines.
• 1 line statement of interest 'right now we're offering 3d printer workshops and reaching out to spaces that might host our event."
• ask: am i talking to the right person?

points to highlight

• SPIN
• Situation: do you offer a lot of events like workshops or demos? | ... for open source industrial machines?
• Problem: what happens when a machine breaks? | how does what ppl are working on build into something greater?
• Implication: what does it mean if ppl aren't making or using open-source machines / 3d printer?
• Needs Payoff: what happens if you can host this workshop and x people in the community take home a 3d printer?

ask

• space for x date, at x time, for x amount of space, x tables
• profit sharing?

MakerSpace 1 of 2

Subject: 3d printer workshop at SpaceName

Would your space be interested in hosting a 3d printer building workshop - run and promoted by Open Source Ecology?

We've developed the 3D printer with the lowest unique part count in the world, which makes it easy to build and understand, and I'm wondering if SpaceName would be open to hosting one of our workshops?

Open Source Ecology builds open source machines as a 501c3 education nonprofit to help communities build and design an open source economy (see our Founder's TED talk for more info). I'd love to see if our work could be something SpaceName taps into.

Any feedback would be much appreciated!

Alex

MakerSpace 2 of 2

Subject: Open Source Machine Development at Ace Monster Toys

I see the great maker work that you're doing. Wondering if you can help me out.

There's an untapped potential to build a suite of open-source machines in the maker world and trying to figure out if this is the case at Ace Monster Toys as well... Do you know what percentage of Ace Monster Toys makers are developing open source machines?

We are a education nonprofit 501c3 helps people build open-source machines, design real-world objects, and prototype like an engineer, and I thought you might have some insight. Any feedback you have would be super helpful.

Thanks in advance!

Alex

Library

Subject: 3d printer workshop at LibraryName

Would LibraryName be interested in hosting a 3d printer building workshop - run and promoted by Open Source Ecology?

We developed the 3D printer with the lowest part count in the world, which makes it easy to build and understand for anyone who wants to print useful 3d printed objects.

Open Source Ecology builds open source machines as a 501c3 education nonprofit to help people live life with abundance with the resources they have access to. (see our Founder's TED talk for more info). I'd love to see if the community around LibraryName would participate in a 3d printer build. (We also offer training on Computer Aided Design and training for librarians and teachers on how to run a 3D printing cluster.)

Any feedback would be much appreciated!

Alex

Marcin 1 of x

Hi Anthony,

Are you still in contact with Noisebridge?

We added 2 full time people to the OSE team in California - Sara and Alex - and they are running workshop builds of the 3D printer in California after a month of intensive training immersion at our site. We are looking for a venue to host our first workshop at the end of the month - any suggesions? We can build the 3D printer in a day, and demo the 3D printer filament maker recycling machines.

https://microfactory.opensourceecology.org/

Thanks, Marcin

Scratch

We are a 501c3 education nonprofit - please see more about our work at our Global Village Construction Set TED Talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski?language=en

We can also offer training on Computer Aided Design and training for librarians and teachers on how to run a 3D printing cluster.