Teacherpreneur Email and More
Teacherpreneur Email and More
Email Templates vs Starters: What's the Difference?
Ready to take your TPT store email game to the next level? This episode is all about demystifying the difference in email starters vs templates. We discuss the differences between email templates and email starters, clearing up any confusion you might have had. We explore how these two tools serve different purposes, but both serve you as you grow as an email marketer.
We start by explaining how email templates can be a lifesaver when you're feeling burnt out or lacking creativity. Then we discuss how email starters can help you inject your unique personality into your emails, making them more engaging and effective.
We also guide you through the process of transitioning from using templates to starters, and eventually crafting your own emails. So tune in, be inspired, and start creating more meaningful and productive connections with your customers today.
You're listening to Teacher Panore email and more, the only podcast that helps you take the mystery out of what to write for your TPT store, whether you're struggling with what to write your email list or how to phrase your product description so you rake in buckets of cash. We'll be covering the exact steps each week. Let's get started. All right, this is a question I've had a few times about some of the products in my store, so I'm going to go ahead and clear it up here Now. I can just link to it when you guys have questions and you can hear it real fast. So what's the difference between an email template and a email starter? So in my store I have email templates and I have email starters. At this point that could change. I also have copywriting stuff and that sort of thing, but between the email starters and the email templates there is a difference and it is a big difference and you should know what it is. So when you are starting out on the email and you've sat there and you've stared at a blank page and you've stared at a blank page and you've typed out a sentence and then you raced it and you typed out another sentence and you said, no, they already know that. And then you're like, okay, well, I'm just going to do this later, because you've gotten frustrated and you feel like you need to write something brilliant and genius and just nothing is coming out that you feel is worthy of putting out there into your email list. It actually is. So I disagree with you there. But what you might want to consider is email email templates. So if you were just like I'm done, I don't have any creativity, it's the end of the year or it's the beginning of the year and I'm burnout, I'm tired, I just have no creativity, that's when you might want to use a template. So an email template is just going to be a place where you drop in just a few words in the fill, in the blanks and you send the email and you're done. It's not going to be 100% in your voice, it's going to be somebody else's voice, but you're changing it. You're taking five minutes just to plug in a few words and you're changing it, but then you're sending it. So it's fast, it's easy, it costs some money, but it gets you started and it gets you consistent, and that is the big benefit of using those. You should definitely do it If you're stuck and you don't have time or you're frustrated, use the templates, do that.
Speaker 1:So then, as you go along and you're like, well, I would really like to put a little more of my personality and my fun, or my quirkiness, or my quick quit or my sarcasm or my empathy, my ability to teach, my relatability, whatever it is that you have, whatever your superpower is, and you're like, I want to share that with my teachers. I want to help them with X. Well, that's when I would start using the email starters. So email starters are usually in my store. They give you backgrounds. So they'll say your teachers, let's use back to school as an example. Your teachers are. They're either dreading going back to school or they're excited. They miss the routine, they miss the students, they miss the bright colors. They want to go smell all the new school supplies that make us all happy. They want the washi tape and the planters and all that.
Speaker 1:Whatever it is that your teachers are feeling, it'll put that in the background. So you'll. You'll instantly know how your teachers are feeling, because I've done research on it for you, and then you'll look at the subject line and it may have a select. You know it may have a select the one word in the subject line and then it'll give you an opening line or two and then you'll run with the rest of the email and then it'll give you a call to action and then you'll go through and do a couple links. So you know, whereas the other one will take you five minutes, this one might take you 10, 15 minutes max on each email to put in, and so it allows you to get started and not stare at that blank page and get frustrated. So it's like oh, yeah, I know three ways to teach phonics, or I know three ways to teach circumference, whatever it is, and you can look at those and get started right away. And then, and then, after you use those for a while, then you'll be so comfortable that you'll be like oh, okay, well, I have another idea for an email and you can write those.
Speaker 1:So it's kind of a progression. You, you start with email templates. They're fast, they're easy, they get you consistent. Then you move to email starters and you're like, okay, I just need someone to get me started, get the creativity juices going, and then I can go. And then that last step is you learning how to write email and do your email marketing. I mean you can always hire it out, but that's the progression I have in products and kind of how you would go through the different products in my store.
Speaker 1:So I hope that helps you decide if you're looking at the templates versus the email starters. So you know, you should know where you're at at this and that should help you pick one out and run with it. Don't agonize on it, just just go for it. All right, so I will talk to you next week. Bye, so are we pen pals yet? I'd love to know that. I'm not just trying to educate the closet. So sign up for my free product line sampler so I can send you a personal message and get you the freebie. Talk to you Monday.