The 148-word email that sold out 100 spots in 99 minutes

Sold out emailA year ago today I wrote the perfect email to launch our website. It was smart, well-written, talked about benefits before features, and nobody ever read it.

6am rolled around on launch day and I jumped on a call with our team. It was set to go out at 7am.

“This doesn’t make sense.”

“What do you mean it doesn’t make sense?”

“It’s too complicated. Needs to be re-written.”

Rather than arguing, we scratched my email, re-wrote line-by-line, edited, edited, and edited again until we were happy. I’m glad we did…

The 148-word email that sold out 100 spots in 99 minutes

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