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Five Emails
A welcome sequence you write once and leave running
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FIVE EMAILS
A welcome sequence you write once and leave running
A4 · this is a layout preview in the “Signal” design. When you generate, the studio writes every chapter in full, paints the cover and chapter art, and composes a downloadable A4 PDF with your name, bio and store link on it.
Somebody has just given you their email address. For the next few days they remember who you are, and then they stop. A welcome sequence uses that short window to deliver what you promised, show what you do, and make one offer without ambush. Here are the five emails, with the words to write in each.
What's inside
- 1What the sequence is forYou decide the single outcome the five emails should produce, and set the sending gaps and the tone you can sustain. After this chapter you know what success looks like before you write a word.
- 2Email one: the welcome and the thing you promisedYou send the download or the discount in the first line, before any introduction, and add one sentence about what will arrive next. This is the email people actually open, so it carries the delivery and the expectation setting.
- 3Email two: the story behind the workYou tell the short version of why you do this, in a few hundred words, without a request attached. It gives the reader a reason to recognise your name when the offer arrives later.
- 4Email three: the useful oneYou give away one complete, genuinely useful thing, small enough to read in three minutes and specific enough to act on today. This email earns the right to make an offer in the next one.
- 5Email four: the offer, made plainlyYou describe the product, who it suits, what it costs and where to buy it, in that order and without a build-up. After this chapter you have an offer email that reads as an invitation rather than a pitch.
- 6Email five: the last call, and what happens nextYou send one short reminder with the deadline or the reason to decide, then tell people what your normal emails will look like from here. This chapter also covers a clean way to let people leave.
A sample from chapter one
Send the thing first, then say hello
The first email should open with whatever you promised in exchange for the address. The checklist, the discount code, the first chapter. Put it in the first line, above any greeting or introduction, because a reader who has to scroll past three paragraphs of your background to find their download will remember you as the person who made them work for it.
Once the promise is delivered, add two sentences and stop. One says who you are, in the shape of what you do for people rather than a job title. The other says what will arrive next and roughly when. That sentence quietly does a lot of work, because it turns the next email from an interruption into something the reader has already been told about.
- Put the download link in the first line, before any introduction.
- Introduce yourself by what you help people do, not by your job title.
- Say what the next email contains and when it will arrive.
- Send from a name and address that a reply can reach, and mean it.
Key takeaways
- The welcome email is the most opened one you will ever send, so give it the real work.
- Telling people what arrives next makes the following email feel expected rather than intrusive.
- A sequence you can write in an afternoon and leave running beats a newsletter you keep postponing.
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