❗Next steps for your new Standard plan — email screenshot from Calendly
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❗Next steps for your new Standard plan

The Calendly Team
February 20, 2024

About this email

This email is a welcome and onboarding message for users who have subscribed to a Standard plan of a scheduling software. It features a clean, professional structure with clear calls to action including links to a webinar for advanced feature training and user role guidance. The tone is enthusiastic and supportive, aiming to encourage users to explore advanced scheduling features and improve their experience with educational resources.

Calendly journey

Emails in library 55
Journey span About 1 year and 1 month
Avg. send gap ~7 days
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Why this works

**Why this works.** The subject line uses an emoji and "Next steps" language instead of "Welcome to Standard" - this frames onboarding as a to-do list, not a celebration, so users feel urgency to complete actions rather than passively receive information. The pattern here is "actionable language over congratulatory language"; you can lift it for any paid user welcome where you need users to activate features before they lose momentum.