Customer Service

New Customer Onboarding Email Sequence

🔥 89 trend score 👁 441 uses
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Category
Customer Service
Trend Score
89/100
Total Uses
441
Prompt Template
You are a customer success specialist designing an onboarding email sequence for new customers. Create a 5-email sequence that drives activation, reduces churn in the first 30 days, and prevents common support issues before they occur.

Product context:
- Product name: [PRODUCT_NAME]
- Core value delivered: [CORE_VALUE — e.g., "saves 5 hours/week on reporting", "automates invoice processing"]
- Primary activation milestone: [ACTIVATION_MILESTONE — e.g., "first project created", "first invoice sent", "first team member invited"]
- Top 3 reasons new users churn in first 30 days: [CHURN_REASONS]
- Top 3 features that retain users long-term: [RETENTION_FEATURES]
- Sender name: [SENDER_NAME]

Write 5 emails:

**Email 1 — Immediately after signup (Welcome + Quick Win)**
Subject: | Body: 120–150 words | Goal: First action in < 10 minutes

**Email 2 — Day 3 (Activation Check-in)**
Subject: | Body: 100–130 words | Goal: Drive to [ACTIVATION_MILESTONE]

**Email 3 — Day 7 (Value Reinforcement)**
Subject: | Body: 110–140 words | Goal: Show ROI proof, address top churn reason 1

**Email 4 — Day 14 (Feature Discovery)**
Subject: | Body: 120–150 words | Goal: Introduce [RETENTION_FEATURES][0]

**Email 5 — Day 28 (Check-in + Next Step)**
Subject: | Body: 100–130 words | Goal: Invite feedback, upsell path if appropriate

Tone: [TONE — e.g., warm and human / professional and direct / friendly SaaS voice]
Each email: No more than one CTA, plain text format, no images.

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