Your email marketing is a part of your ecosystem and is important should you ever get locked out of your social media. Do you have email marketing set up and if so are you using it? If you do here is what to look out for and fix today. Thank me later.👋 For your welcome email three things to look at: - Offer mentions -- is it pointing to something you've since retired or repackaged? Swap in whatever's current. - Your CTA -- every welcome email needs one clear next step. Reply to this. Click here. Grab this. One thing, not five. If yours doesn't have one at all, that's your first fix. - The tone -- does it sound like you today or like you two years ago? Sometimes a few word swaps is all it takes. - You don't need to rewrite the whole thing. Most welcome emails just need a light edit, not a rebuild. Now test your opt-in. I did this and found a broken link and a very outdated blog post and resource 🤦‍♀️. Sign up for your own freebie using a different email address and watch what happens. Does it arrive? Does the link work? Does the delivery email still make sense? Broken opt-in delivery can quietly cost you trust for months without you knowing. Five minutes to check. Worth it. Next hunt down your zombie links If you have an automated sequence go through any you have running -- welcome series, nurture flow, onboarding emails -- and look for links pointing to things that no longer exist. Old booking pages. Retired offers. Removed freebies. Fix what you find. Update the link, swap the CTA, or archive the email entirely if it no longer makes sense. Also worth checking: do any automated emails mention prices or timelines that have changed? Update those too. Work through it at your own pace and drop back here when you're done. What did you find? Anything broken, outdated, or surprisingly fine? Tell us below. Use the checklist to help work through all of this.

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We're moving into email marketing now -- and I want to start with a question. When did you last actually read your own welcome email? Not set it up. Not send it. Read it like a new subscriber. For a lot of us the honest answer is: a while ago. And for some of us, the honest answer is: I don't have one. Either way, that's exactly where we're starting today -- and we're not just looking, we're fixing as we go. If you have a welcome email, open it right now. Read it once. Then ask yourself: does it still sound like you? Is it pointing to the right things? Does it give the reader a clear next step? Update anything that's off before you move on. If you don't have one yet, here's what to build: One email is enough to start. You can add a sequence later. Here's what to include: - A warm hello that actually sounds like you -- not a corporate onboarding script - A reminder of what they signed up for and what they can expect from you going forward - One clear next step -- a post to read, a resource to grab, or a simple reply prompt - A short line about who you are and what you help people with Keep it brief. This is a first conversation, not a sales page. Get in, be human, give them something useful, get out. Write it, set it up, then come back and tick it off. Drop below when you're done -- or tell us what you updated if you already had one.

Two more quick profile wins today. - Your link in bio Where does it go right now? If you're using a link page, is the first link still the most important one? Most people only click the first link -- so whatever you most want people to do should live right at the top. If you're linking directly to something, is it still the right thing? Does it match what you're currently offering? Update it if not. Two minutes. - Your pinned posts or featured highlights Pinned content is prime real estate. It's what people see when they're deciding whether to follow or reach out. Are yours still representative of where your business is now? If you've got something pinned from two years ago that no longer reflects what you do -- swap it out for something current. A recent post, a clear offer explanation, a win you're proud of. That's it. Two updates, maybe 15 minutes total. What's currently pinned/featured on your main profile? Does it still do its job?

Last social task -- and this one is entirely optional but really freeing. Go through your recent posts and archive anything that no longer represents where your business is headed. Old offers you don't sell. Content from a niche you've moved away from. Posts that feel misaligned with who you're serving now. You don't have to delete anything. Archiving keeps it off your profile without losing it permanently. You're not erasing your history. You're just curating what a new visitor sees when they land on your page. A profile that feels cohesive and current does quiet work for you every day. Do as much or as little as feels right. Even archiving two or three things counts. Next section coming up: email marketing. Slightly more involved but still totally manageable, I promise. Did you archive anything? What made the cut to stay and what got tucked away?