Jobs at small Denver companies nobody posts about - 6 months and counting

I asked around at a community meeting and got three leads. I would rather hear the honest version than the polite one. They like a brief email with a résumé. What do you write in a cold email?

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it 6 months ago, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.

Visiting in person worked for a trades job. For office jobs, email was better.