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How to write outbound emails with AI

Josh from Apollo
January 15, 2024

About this email

This email is a promotional message aimed at helping the recipient overcome writer's block in crafting marketing messages. It includes a friendly and casual tone, features a personalized greeting, and offers a link to an article about messaging foundations authored by Karli Stone. The email also promotes the use of Apollo's AI Assistant to automate message creation and closes with an encouraging quote and a call to action to engage further with the content or tools provided.

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Why this works

**Why this works.** The subject line names a concrete user problem (writing outbound emails) before revealing the tool (AI), so free users click because they recognize their own friction point, not because they're curious about a feature. The pattern here is "problem statement before solution"; you can lift it for any onboarding email where the user pain is more motivating than the product capability.