Are you making this Google Ads mistake? — email screenshot from SemRush
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SemRush

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Are you making this Google Ads mistake?

Semrush Team
June 10, 2024

About this email

This email promotes Semrush's Ads Launch Assistant tool designed to help small business owners optimize their Google Ads campaigns through strategic keyword research. It systematically explains common mistakes in keyword selection and underscores the benefits of using their AI-powered keyword suggestion tool. The structure is clear with visual icons and calls to action linking to further resources and social media, employing a helpful and encouraging tone to engage users.

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Why this works

**Why this works.** The subject line frames the email as mistake-correction, not feature-promotion, so recipients open expecting to learn what they're doing wrong rather than what Semrush wants to sell them. The pattern here is "diagnosis before prescription"; you can lift it for any product education email where you want users to recognize a gap in their current workflow before introducing your solution.