What happens in the first ten days after someone joins your email list? According to Naomi, that short window can determine whether a new subscriber becomes a customer, or simply forgets about your brand.

In this episode of The Send, Naomi breaks down the psychology behind the first ten days of a subscriber's journey and explains why this period represents one of the most important opportunities in email marketing.

You'll learn the five-email welcome series designed to turn a new subscriber into someone who knows you, trusts you, and has a reason to keep opening your emails.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the first hours and days after subscription are a peak curiosity and attention window

• The psychology behind the first welcome email

• Why Email 1 should deliver immediate value instead of simply offering a discount

• How to use your real origin story to build trust

• Why specificity makes social proof more credible

• How giving away genuinely valuable information can prepare subscribers for an offer

• How to make an offer without creating unnecessary pressure

• The ideal timing for all five emails

• What to do when someone purchases during the welcome sequence

• Why subscriber-to-buyer conversion is more important than simply tracking open rates

The Five Emails

Email 1 — The Right Decision Confirmation

Deliver immediate, useful value and give the new subscriber a reason to open the next email.

Email 2 — The Real Origin Story

Tell the genuine story behind the business and create a human connection.

Email 3 — Social Proof That Actually Works

Use specific results, numbers, and real experiences to demonstrate credibility.

Email 4 — The Best Free Value You Can Give

Give away something genuinely useful, something valuable enough that people would normally pay for it.

Email 5 — The Offer Without Pressure

Make a clear offer while reinforcing that the relationship doesn't depend on whether the subscriber buys.

The episode also covers the recommended sequence:

Day 0 → Day 2 → Day 4 → Day 7 → Day 10

And the key metric to watch:

Subscriber-to-buyer conversion rate.

The episode explains why the goal isn't simply to get someone to open an email, it's to turn a new subscriber into a customer while building a relationship they want to continue.

What can teaching 100 marketing courses teach you about email? More than you might expect.

Before becoming an email marketing practitioner, Naomi spent years teaching marketing, web development, design, digital advertising, and content creation at three different colleges. Across more than 100 courses, she learned something that continues to shape the way she approaches email today: the fundamentals never change.

In this episode of The Send, Naomi shares the lessons the classroom taught her about marketing, communication, strategy, and writing email that actually connects with people.

She explains why understanding the fundamentals matters more than chasing the latest platform or tactic, why businesses often make the same mistakes as students, and how teaching changed the way she thinks about clarity in email copy.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the fundamentals of marketing matter more than constantly chasing new tactics

• Why understanding should come before execution

• The difference between activity and meaningful progress

• Why optimizing for measurable metrics isn't always the same as optimizing for what matters

• How teaching helped Naomi become a clearer email writer

• Why the best email copy sounds more like a smart friend than a brand

• What expertise is really for—and why helping people understand is more important than demonstrating what you know

Naomi's three lessons from watching students struggle:

1. Build with understanding before execution.

2. Don't confuse activity with progress.

3. Don't optimize for what can be measured at the expense of what actually matters.

At the heart of this episode is a simple idea: platforms change, tactics change, and algorithms change—but human psychology doesn't.

And that's exactly why the fundamentals of good communication continue to matter in email.

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What if the biggest mistake in your abandoned cart strategy isn't that you're sending too few emails—but that you're sending the wrong one first?

In this episode of The Send, Naomi explains the psychology behind cart abandonment, why most brands lose revenue by leading with discounts, and the three-email sequence that consistently recovers more sales without sacrificing profit margins.

What You'll Learn

• Why cart abandonment is usually interruption—not rejection

• The costly mistake of offering discounts too early

• The perfect three-email abandoned cart sequence

• How to write calm, human emails that outperform high-pressure marketing

• When to introduce an incentive

• Which abandoned cart metrics actually matter

• How to increase recovery rates without training customers to wait for discounts

Episode Breakdown

✔ The Psychology of Cart Abandonment

✔ Why Discounts in Email #1 Hurt Revenue

✔ Email 1: The Calm Reminder

✔ Email 2: Education + Social Proof

✔ Email 3: The Genuine Offer

✔ Metrics Every Brand Should Track

Mentioned Topics

• Abandoned Cart Emails
• Email Marketing
• Shopify
• Klaviyo
• Ecommerce
• Customer Psychology
• Email Automation
• Conversion Optimization

About Naomi

Naomi is a Certified Klaviyo Partner with more than 20 years of experience in email and SMS marketing. Through The Send, she shares practical strategies that help ecommerce brands build stronger customer relationships and increase revenue through email marketing.

Call To Action

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Most businesses think email marketing is all about sending campaigns.

They're wrong.

In this episode of The Send, Naomi explains why the highest-performing email programs generate the majority of their revenue from automated flows, not promotional campaigns, and walks through the five essential automations every business should build before sending another email campaign.

What You'll Learn

• Why campaigns should never be your first priority

• How automated email flows generate most email revenue

• How to build a high-converting Welcome Series

• Why abandoned cart emails shouldn't start with discounts

• How post-purchase emails increase repeat customers

• When to use browse abandonment automation

• How win-back campaigns improve deliverability and customer retention

• The correct order to build every automation

The Five Flows Covered

✔ Welcome Series

✔ Abandoned Cart

✔ Post Purchase

✔ Browse Abandonment

✔ Win-Back Sequence

Mentioned In This Episode

• Email Marketing
• Klaviyo
• Shopify
• Email Automation
• Welcome Series
• Customer Retention
• Lifecycle Marketing
• Ecommerce Marketing

About the Host

Naomi is a Certified Klaviyo Partner with more than 20 years of experience in email and SMS marketing. She has managed email programs for millions of subscribers and helps businesses build profitable lifecycle marketing systems through strategic automation.

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What would happen to your business if Instagram deleted your account tomorrow?

Most businesses spend years building audiences on platforms they don't own, while neglecting the one marketing asset that belongs entirely to them: their email list.

In this debut episode of The Send, Naomi explains why email remains the most valuable marketing channel available today—and why artificial intelligence is making genuine relationships with subscribers even more important.

In this episode you'll learn

• Why social media audiences are borrowed, not owned

• The difference between owned media and rented media

• Why email subscribers are often worth far more than social media followers

• How AI is changing marketing without replacing trust

• Why authentic email marketing will become even more valuable in the years ahead

• Simple steps to begin strengthening your email list today

Mentioned in this episode

• Email marketing
• AI in marketing
• Customer relationships
• Owned media
• Email list growth
• Marketing strategy

About the host

Naomi is a Certified Klaviyo Partner with more than 20 years of experience in email and SMS marketing. She has managed email programs for over 10 million subscribers, worked with leading direct-to-consumer brands, and taught marketing, web development, and design at the college level. Through The Send, she shares practical insights to help businesses build stronger customer relationships through email.

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