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Free 22-page working guide · 2026 edition

A list of 200 people who reply beats 2,000 who never open.

Email That Earns Its Keep is a working document, not another list of tips. Ten short sections, nine worksheets, and a single page at the back that becomes your email strategy — the one you actually review each month.

You finish holding four things
01A one-page email strategy
02A sign-up offer worth the address
03A four-email welcome sequence
04A cadence you can actually hold

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Email That Earns Its Keep guide cover
Free PDF
22
Pages, no padding
9
Worksheets to fill in
4
Welcome emails, written
40
Minutes, end to end
£0
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The actual problem

You don’t need a bigger list. You need a reason to send.

Most small businesses treat the list as a number to grow. That is why so many lists get big and go quiet. A subscriber is an asset because they still want to hear from you — and because you know what you are helping them decide next.

Three symptoms
01

You do not know what the next email is for.

02

Nobody ever replies to one.

03

You would be embarrassed to send it twice as often.

The three things you leave with

Written down, not just understood.

Most free guides give you principles you already agree with. These three pages are the ones people actually keep — because they hold decisions, not advice.

The sign-up offer
Page 5

“Sign up for our newsletter” asks for something and offers nothing. You write an offer specific enough that the wrong person does not want it.

The welcome sequence
Page 13

Four emails over ten days. Written once, they work while you are on site, on holiday or asleep — and they out-earn a year of monthly newsletters.

The one-page strategy
Page 21

Every section ends in a decision you write down, and they accumulate here: audience, offer, promise, cadence, segments, action, measure.

What’s inside

Ten sections. Each one ends in a decision.

Written for owners and small teams who send email themselves. Roughly forty minutes to read; the worksheets are the part that takes real thought.

01The list you actually want
02Earn the address
03Where subscribers actually come from
04Decide what earns a send
05Write an email people finish
06Segmentation you can maintain
07The four-email welcome
08A cadence you can hold
09Land in the inbox
10The rules, plainly
Look inside first

Three pages from the guide, unretouched.

No blurred mock-ups. This is what arrives — A4 landscape, gold rules marking every line you fill in, and page 21 waiting to become your strategy.

The four-email welcome sequence worksheet from page 13 of the guide
Page 13 — write your four welcome emails, with a box for each subject line.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC explained on page 15 of the guide
Page 15 — SPF, DKIM and DMARC in plain English, with a three-box check.
The one-page email strategy sheet from page 21 of the guide
Page 21 — the master sheet. Fill it in, keep it visible, review it monthly.
Worth your forty minutes if

You have a list, and you are not sure what to say to it.

People sign up and then hear nothing for six weeks.

Your list has gone quiet and you are nervous about restarting it.

You would rather send six emails that work than sixty that don’t.

Probably not for you if

You want subject-line tricks and send-time hacks.

You are looking for a bought list or a shortcut to volume.

You already run segmented automations against a revenue target.

If that last one is you, the strategy call will be a better use of your time than the guide.

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Steve Welsh · Kilmarnock, Ayrshire 07814 558325 sales@stevewelshmarketing.com