Opt In List Building – How To Write Your First Email
As first impression is very important in marketing, your first email to your opt-in list is very important. Your first email will be the first opportunity to connect with your readers in your list. They will guide you from your first email, so your first email should always be good. Sound friend and welcome them to your list.
Usually, we managed our email marketing campaign with an auto responder (e.g. AWeber), in which we will schedule email messages beforehand. Usually, an automatic message will be sent immediately after your reader opts-in. You then have to follow on with subsequent email messages on a regular basis to establish credibility and trust with your list.
You definitely do not want to send a sales message for your first email as this will put them off and they will likely unsubscribe from your list. So usually what works for me here is I thank them for subscribing to my list and introduce myself. I also send them the link of the free report that they requested from my squeeze page.
This is the template of my first email:
Hi XXXX
Thanks for requesting for your report and opting-in to the “The Name Of Your” list…
You can download your report in PDF format:
(download your report now!)
(the link to the redemption page)
We are pretty sure you will enjoy this e-book and we hope you can get the most out of it.
I look forward to getting to know you over the next few months, and sharing some of my most effective secrets with you.
Best wishes to your internet success,
(Your signature) or (Sign off)





Email marketing only ever seemed to work for me when i was really emailing people information they wanted. sending out a spam mail to a couple million people and hoping you get a hit or a nibble or two is not the way to go.
Nice work keep it up