Word-of-mouth leads in Louisville after 7 years as a recruiter

Two small Louisville employers told me they are hiring but have not posted yet. It has been a long 26 weeks. They like a brief email with a résumé. What do you write in a cold email?

A short email with two sentences about what you can do and your résumé attached worked for me. I followed up after a week.

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it 12 months ago, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.