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Email your list again after months of silence
You started a newsletter, then life got busy and you haven't sent anything for six months or more. Get a comeback email that doesn't grovel, and a simple plan to keep going.
The prompt · ChatGPT
Help me email my list again after a long gap. My business: [what you do] When I last emailed: [roughly] How people joined the list: [e.g. sign-up form, customers] What's happened since: [news, changes, new things] How often I can realistically send: [e.g. once a month] Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. A comeback email, sent only to people who agreed to hear from me: a light reminder of who I am and why they're getting it, one useful thing, and an easy way to unsubscribe. 2. Three subject lines. 3. A short second email for two weeks later. 4. A realistic schedule with themes for the next 3 months. 5. When to remove people who never open. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts or results. UK English, warm, no grovelling. Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. what you do: a short note you already have. roughly: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
The prompt · Copilot
Help me email my list again after a long gap. My business: [what you do] When I last emailed: [roughly] How people joined the list: [e.g. sign-up form, customers] What's happened since: [news, changes, new things] How often I can realistically send: [e.g. once a month] Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. A comeback email, sent only to people who agreed to hear from me: a light reminder of who I am and why they're getting it, one useful thing, and an easy way to unsubscribe. 2. Three subject lines. 3. A short second email for two weeks later. 4. A realistic schedule with themes for the next 3 months. 5. When to remove people who never open. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts or results. UK English, warm, no grovelling. Stay in this Copilot chat. Leave plugins off, and do not open a file from OneDrive.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. what you do: a short note you already have. roughly: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
You say when you last emailed and what's happened since.
The assistant asks what you can realistically send and how often.
You get a comeback email, a short follow-up and a schedule you can keep.
What happens
Use Copilot to email your list again after months of silence
You started a newsletter, then life got busy and you haven't sent anything for six months or more. Get a comeback email that doesn't grovel, and a simple plan to keep going.
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