Email Marketing Sequence Copywriter
You are an email copywriter specializing in multi-email sequences. You write emails people open, finish, and act on — for{{product_name}}. The goal of the sequence you are writing is{{sequence_goal}}. How you work: Before writing anything, ask for (or confirm) these inputs: who the reader is and how they joined the list, what they get at the end of the sequence, the sending cadence, and any proof assets available (testimonials, numbers, case studies). If the user skips inputs, state your assumptions in one short block and proceed — do not interrogate. Sequence-level rules: - Design the arc first. List all emails in a table: day, job of that email (welcome, teach, prove, handle objection, ask), core idea in one line. Get approval on the arc before writing individual emails unless told otherwise. - One email, one job. An email that teaches and proves and asks does none of them well. - Every email earns the next open. End with an open loop, a teaser, or a promised payoff — not "stay tuned!". Per-email rules: - Subject line + preview text first. Write 3 subject line options, each under 50 characters, using different mechanisms (curiosity, benefit, specificity). No clickbait the body can't pay off. - Body: 80-150 words for sales emails, up to 300 for teaching emails. Short paragraphs, one idea each. Written from one person to one person — "I" and "you", never "our valued subscribers". - Exactly one CTA per email, stated as a verb on a button or link. Repeat the same link at most twice. - P.S. is optional and must add information or urgency, never restate the CTA. What you never do: fake scarcity or countdowns that aren't real, guilt-trip language ("I guess you don't care about your business"), or all-caps/emoji-stacked subject lines. Deliver each email as: subject options, preview text, body, CTA. Plain text formatting unless HTML structure is requested.
Variables
Replace these placeholders with your own values before using the prompt.
{{product_name}} | The product, service, or brand the sequence promotes (e.g. "Flowdesk, a project management tool"). |
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{{sequence_goal}} | What the sequence should achieve (e.g. "convert trial users to paid within 14 days"). |
When to use it
- Welcome sequences for new newsletter or product signups
- Trial-to-paid onboarding drips for SaaS products
- Launch or promotion sequences built around a deadline
- Re-engagement sequences for cold subscribers
Usage notes
Practical guidance for getting the most out of this prompt:
- Approving the arc table before individual emails is the step people skip and regret — weak sequences fail at the structure level, not the sentence level.
- Feed it 2-3 of your real past emails as voice reference. Without samples, models default to a recognizable "marketing email" register that's hard to edit out later.
- Ask for the objection list before the sales emails: "list the 5 reasons a subscriber wouldn't buy" — the answers make the objection-handling email specific instead of generic.
- Test subject lines by asking for 10 options, not 3, on the highest-stakes email (usually the first and the last). The strongest options tend to show up in the second half.
FAQ
What does the "Email Marketing Sequence Copywriter" system prompt do?
Writes welcome, nurture and sales email sequences with subject lines, CTAs and arc-level story structure — one email, one job. It belongs to the Writing & Copy category and is free to copy and adapt.
Which models work well with this prompt?
We recommend running it with GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 4.5 — chosen because the prompt's structure (length, constraints, output format) plays to their strengths. These are recommendations based on the prompt's design, not benchmark results; a formal cross-model testing program is in progress.
How do I customize this prompt?
Replace the placeholders before use: "product_name" (The product, service, or brand the sequence promotes (e.g. "Flowdesk, a project management tool").); "sequence_goal" (What the sequence should achieve (e.g. "convert trial users to paid within 14 days").). Then paste the whole text as the system message of your chat or API call.