Note the Chris Faylek, a VC writing “How to Become Insanely Well Connected”, suggests tracking response rates and, with some careful tricks, can get up to 70%.posits that a bunch of tricks give him a response rate

That said, I’ve had a number of people I’ve conversed with saying “This is a test. I will probably hire you if you actually email me.” They don’t. The ‘send me an email, right now, on your phone.’ works. Nothing else does.