How to reliably get new clients
Cold emails to get new clients
Follow ups to get replies
Link building emails
Partner with influencers
Graceful apologies
Pitch journalists
Onboard new users
Ask for donations
Ask for referrals
Day 1 of trial: welcome a new user and reiterate the biggest benefit of your product
Welcome to Ray!
❷Now beside every email you track, you'll see a little eye icon like this:
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Grey = email hasn't been read yet.
Green = email has been read.
Blue = email has been read and clicked.
❸No more wondering: "Did they open it"? "Should I send it again?" "Are they interested, should I follow up?"
❹Send a tracked email
Sevara Reece
Founder, Ray
❶Welcome your new user and briefly state the biggest benefit of your product.
❷Explain the biggest benefit your user will get out of using your product and how it will work to encourage them to try it out.
❸Describe a big pain point your product solves.
❺Ask them to try out your most important product feature.
Day 2 of trial: highlight the second biggest benefit of your product
❶Have you ever forgotten to…
… follow up with a prospect?
… ask for updates on a project?
❷You don't have to worry about forgetting again.
Simply click ‘Remind me’ at the top of an email and choose the time and day you want to be reminded.
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On that day, Ray will automatically bump the email back to the top of your inbox:
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❸Create a reminder
Sevara Reece
Founder, Ray
❹Your trial ends in 12 days - upgrade here.
❶Send this email one day after they sign up. Briefly describe the scenario your second most important product feature helps with. If you have behavior tracking set up, don't send this email to users who have already tried this feature.
❷Explain how to use this feature and include an animated gif if possible to visually show your user how it works.
❸Ask them to try the feature. Each onboarding email should only focus on one product feature. Highlighting a few at the same time can overwhelm your user with information and choices, making it less likely they will take any action.
❹At the bottom of the email, remind users how many days are left in their trial and make it easy for them to upgrade.
Thanks for showing me how to roll out the red carpet for my signups! Now onto the harder question, how do I get more of 'em in the first place? See 6 cold emails that still work.
Day 5 of trial: highlight the third biggest benefit of your product
❶Let me know if this sounds familiar...
You spent hours preparing a proposal for your prospect tailored around their questions and needs.
*attach file and send*
1 day later….nothing yet. 2 days later...crickets. 3 days later...what's going on?
❷Now when you attach a file, Ray can auto-convert it to a tracked page:
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❸With all of the analytics that’s possible with one:
・How many times your prospect has opened it
・Heatmaps of which parts they focused on
You can also directly chat with them on the page to answer any questions they may have.
❸Track a proposal
Sevara Reece
Founder, Ray
Your trial ends in 9 days - upgrade here.
❶Send this email 2 days after the previous one. Describe the pain point your third most important product feature solves. If you have behavior tracking set up, don't send this email to users who have already tried this feature.
❷Briefly describe how this feature works and share a screenshot of it in action.
❸Lay out the additional benefits of this feature.
❹Ask them to give it a try.
Day 8 of trial: highlight the fourth biggest benefit of your product
❶Based on our analysis of 200k+ sales emails:
You can get the most replies by sending cold prospects at least 5 emails.
❷But yes, it takes a lot of time to send follow ups and to remember to send them at the right time.
❸ With Ray, you can nurture prospects semi-automatically:
・Set up a 5-email nurturing sequence
・Add a few variables to each message so personalized words and phrases can be mail merged into the email for every prospect (makes it look like an 1-on-1 email)
・Upload your list of cold prospects
・Select the send times for each email in the sequence
・The email sequence automatically stops sending to prospects who reply to an email
❹Now you can have a constant supply of warmed up prospects ready for the next step!
❺Set up a prospect nurturing sequence
Sevara Reece
Founder, Ray
Your trial ends in 6 days - upgrade here.
❶ Send this email 5 days after the previous one. For features that involve slightly more complicated concepts or steps, present some data that demonstrate its benefits to encourage users to try it. If you have behavior tracking set up, don't send this email to users who have already tried this feature.
❷Explain why it would be difficult or time-consuming to perform this action or achieve this goal without your product feature.
❸Lay out the steps to use this feature.
❹Mention the biggest result this feature helps your user achieve.
❺Ask your user to try it.
Day 12 of trial: remind the user their trial is ending in 2 days
❶Your trial of Ray is ending in 2 days.
❷Join companies like:
・Zenforce: "We’ve 3x-ed our sales after being able to track which emails performed the best, turning them into templates and sharing them with the whole sales team."
・Amazon: “Before using Ray, a lot of our sales stalled after sending proposals. Being able to convert them into tracked pages helped us close 28% more prospects.
❸And keep being able to:
・Know exactly how prospects are reacting to your emails: When, where and how many times have your prospects opened your emails and clicked on its links? Knowing these stats, you can tweak your subject lines, content and CTAs to keep improving your reply and close rates.
・Nurture leads semi-automatically: set up email sequences to nurture your prospects - they still look like you wrote every email.
❹Upgrade now
Sevara Reece
Founder, Ray
❶Send this email 3 days before their trial ends.
❷Share the results 2-3 other customers have achieved with your product. This provides social proof your product really works and shows your trial user what would be possible for them if they upgrade and keep using it.
❸List and briefly explain the benefits of your top product features to remind your user the value they'd get out of using your product.
❹Ask them to upgrade.
Last day of trial: remind your user their trial is ending today
*high five*
❶In the past 13 days with Ray, you have:
Tracked 31 emails with an average: ・32% open rate
・58% response rate
・50% click rate
Set up 1 email sequence sent to 145 contacts that generated: ・32 replies 35 clicks
❷Your trial ends today. Upgrade to keep knowing what happens after you click send.
❸Upgrade now
Sevara Reece
Founder
Ray
❶Enumerate or describe the results your user achieved during their trial. This reminds them the value they have gotten out of your product so far.
❷Mention their trial is ending and nudge them to upgrade to keep benefiting from your product's features.
❸Add a clickable link or button to make it easy for them to upgrade.
How to win back customers who canceled their plan
After FOMO (a social proof tool) showed churned customers how many sales they generated using their product, they understood its ROI and started using it again.
Email to convert users who did not upgrade after trial
❶I worked in sales for 10+ years and created Ray out of my own frustrations about having no clue what was happening on the other side:
❷Were my prospects reading my emails?
Are they clicking on any of its links?
How are they reacting to my proposals?
If you want to know what is the best step to take next to move the sale forward, based on exactly how your prospect reacted:
❸Upgrade today
Sevara Reece
Founder, Ray
❶This approach puts a human face on your company. Give them a bit of a backstory on what inspired you and the team to create your product.
❸Describe the problems you wanted to solve with this product and the questions you wanted to answer. This reinforces your product benefits through the angle of what inspired you to create it.
❹Gently ask them to upgrade again.
How to re-engage trial users who have stopped trying out your product
❶I noticed that you haven’t been tracking your emails recently.
❷To keep knowing whether your emails are being opened or clicked on, simply check this box:
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❸Not only will you be able to see how someone is interacting with your email, we analyze your email trends so you can see:
・When your contacts typically open your emails
・How different types of your email perform (you can tag emails as 'cold email', 'influencer outreach', etc.)
❹Track another email
Sevara Reece
Founder, Ray
❶ Explain you’re getting in touch because you saw they haven’t been trying out your product recently. These reminders are effective because some users stop trying a product during the trial period after they get busy and forget about it. Not because they are no longer interested.
❷Remind them the main benefit they'd get out of using it and show them an easy way to start using it again.
❸Describe another major product benefit to further encourage them to use your product again.
❹Make it easy for them to try your product again.
