In every email… remind users who you are and what you do
Always remind users what you do, and why they need to take action.
I get a lot of emails from new apps and startups.
Over the last few years, I have signed up for updates to, downloaded, and tested, literally hundreds if not thousands of apps and services. My inbox is full of emails telling me ‘the new thing is finally out’. But I see one error committed again and again.
In every email, remind me who you are, and why I should care.
The emails always say ‘XYZ is now available!’
The email looks nice. Good looking design, and a friendly call to action button are all there.
But it is missing the most important parts.
Who are you? What is the benefit of XYZ? Why should I care?
Here is an example. I recently got this email.
Looks cool. Waveforms, black background, maybe something I would like!
But I can’t for the life of me remember what boomy is or why I cared enough to give them my email.
So I replied with this:
The thing is I WANT to be excited about their new release or announcement. I used to care about their product or at least I was interested in it. But you have to help your email readers out.
Answer the question for them. “This is XYZ and this is why you should care.”
No one cares about your thing as much as you do.
It is easy to see why this mistake happens so often. When you are building a company, or an app, or a new project, that thing is your life. You eat, breath and sleep your thing. You forget that no one else does.
But when you don’t remind me why I should care, you are wasting a golden opportunity.
I gave you my email address! I wanted to know more, but I forgot! Please remind me.
This is the easiest sale in the history of sales. Just tell me why I should care. Show me who this app is for. Tell me how it will solve my problems.
Let’s look at 2 example emails I whipped up.
Which do you think would be more likely to get me to download or try something:
Option A — App is available!
Option B — This app which does this thing, is available!
Two extra sentences can make your emails so much better. When you send out an release email, or almost any email, your only purpose is to get me to take action. If I can’t remember what you do, or why I should care, that is probably not going to happen.
So in almost every communication, remind people what you do. Remind people why they should care. Remind people when and where they asked for more info.
I was interested once. You can get me interested again. Help me,
If you liked this please click the 💚 recommend button. If you know of someone building a company or app, share this with them. Let’s stop the forgetful emails.
Examples of emails that don’t remind you who they are and why you should care:
Spline is a pretty amazing 3d design tool for the web. But I had kind of forgotten about it and why I signed up.
Nubo has to do with deploying services in popular languages. But I can’t remember what they do.
I’m assuming Dropship helps you dropship, but not sure.
Examples of Emails there Do Remind You:
