How to Email Your TPT Email List

You sign up for Mailchimp or ConvertKit. You create a landing page. You send a note to followers announcing your list and now you have 13 people on your email list.

Hmmm. Now you need to send them important emails that need to be opened. Where do you find importanty teacherish emails like that?

You tried writing them. But…

Hey Teacher Friend

Hey Teach

Girl you’re going to love this new product

Well, nothing really felt right. So you quit. Just for today. Or this week. Or...maybe... until you have 100 followers.

But, that struggle doesn’t even need to happen. After you get everything set up, here’s how you should start your list. (Worry free.)

Worry Free Email Lists Start By Doing and Not Thinking

If you worry about saying the right thing in the right way.

If you don’t have the brain power after working a full school day.

If you want to get started fast.

Use email templates.

Email templates make writing to your list easy because the content has been created for you. All you have to do is copy and paste, fill in the blanks, and press send. It takes all the pressure of doing it "right" away so that you can get comfortable sending emails.

But as you get more comfortable, you’ll notice that email templates are a bit bland. And being the creative you are, you'll inject some personality into them.

But, when you notice this, it might be time to move to the next phase.

But You Learn to Be a Email Writer with Email Starters

What exactly are email starters? Email starters give you everything you need to start writing your own emails. It’s like peeking over a professional copywriter’s shoulder while they write an email.

Oooooo that's good. I could send that to my list, but change the way...

You get background information on what your teacher audience is thinking during that time of year.

They are hesitant to start back to school because summer has been so relaxing.

You get a headline that appeals to what they are thinking.

B2S: 5 Tips to Stay Relaxed As You Start Back

You get an that email includes the first few lines of text so you can guide the email towards the needs of your audience.

Primary colors exploded all over Target last week. I know we don't want to talk about it, but it doesn't have to be as stressful as last year. In fact, these 5 tips will change how you do back to school...

You get a call to action that you can use as a P.S. or throughout the email.

Download this back to school checklist to stay relaxed and not overwhelmed.

Email starters help your voice shine through to connect with your audience. It’s like having a copywriter walking you through every step of the writing process. Without the $500 or $1000 price tag.

But, sometimes you have a topic that really isn’t common enough to need a template or email starter.

What do you do then?

If You Decide to Write Your Own Emails

Once you’ve gotten bored with templates.

Once you decide to break out of your email starter shell.

Once you decide to really start making money from your email list.

Then it’s time to start writing your own emails. This is when you need to start diving into email strategy.

Learn about:

Teaching Emails

Strategy Emails

Sales Emails

Launch Emails

Relationship Building Emails

Welcome Sequence Emails

And other types…

There are strategies on when to send each type of email, the types of emails you send, the words you use, and the way you use your words.

But don’t worry about that now. If you are just getting started with email, start by using a template. Learn what you like and what you don’t.

Then once you are comfortable with that, use a few email starters and take charge of what you want to inspire your list with.

By the time you master that, you’ll know where to go for deeper strategy. If not, email me or poke around this site.

You Need an Email List, But Not a Useless List

Yes, you do need an email list. But, you don’t need an email list that just sits there and grows names without growing your bank account.

When you first start out your email list isn’t going to make you much money. Kinda like your TpT store. It’s a large time investment up front. But after that, your email list should work for you.

Email templates and starters help decrease that time investment (and frustration level) to keep this learning process easier to manage with all the other things you do.

Use email templates or email starters to make starting an email list easy to do.