You can't really tell if your emails are working.
The Email Check-Up is a quick set of questions that shows you what your email's doing well, where it's losing people, and the one thing to fix first.
"Foundations: yes. One or two weak links: also yes."
Lovely email! But where does it lead?
Your emails are swirling around your business instead of building toward it…
The trouble is, it's really hard to see your own email clearly.
You wrote it, so you already know what you meant. And every time you re-read it, you just fill the same gaps with the same assumptions. You're too close to it to catch what's missing. What you need isn't another read-through, it's a way to see the email from the outside.
Here's what hundred of email reviews have taught me: when an email isn't doing its job, it's rarely because the writing is "bad." It's usually because it's disconnected from one of the five things that make an email work: your buyer, your offer, your expertise, your main message, or your call-to-action.
When one of those is off, saying the same thing a different way won't help, because the problem is the strategy underneath the words.
The good news is that once you can see which pieces are missing, it gets so much easier to improve every email you write.
Run the check-up and you'll walk away with:
- A more strategic way to look at your emails. Instead of staring at a draft wondering if it's any good, you'll know what an email needs to actually do its job, and you'll start seeing your own writing through that lens.
- Confidence in what you're sending. Because when you understand why an email works, you can trust your own judgement and lose the overthinking.
- The consistency you're after. When you trust that what you're sending is built well, emails stop feeling like a gamble, and showing up gets a whole lot easier.
- A strong starting point, named for you. So you can stop guessing every sentence and fix the thing that'll make the biggest difference first.
- The 5-point framework itself. So you can run a self-check-up on every email you send from here on out.
Here's how the Email Check-Up works
- You answer 10 quick questions, rated 1-5 about how your email connects to your buyer, offer, expertise, main message, and CTA.
- The check-up scores your email for you and breaks it down point by point, so you can see what's working and what needs some love.
- You get your starting point and a fix that's specific to it, so you know what to do next.
Pssst… I'll also send the link to your inbox, so you can come back again and again. Look for an email from Gerry Tait.
(Peek in the promotions folder if you can’t see me right away!)
Hi, I'm Gerry.
I'm an email strategist for service providers, coaches, and creatives. I've reviewed hundreds of emails from people trying to figure out why their email marketing wasn't doing anything, and the same pattern shows up every single time: the writing is fine, but something strategic underneath is missing.
I built this check-up so you can spot that pattern in your own emails before you send the next one.
See also: Oxford commas, always. Pearls with sweatpants. Coke Zero on tap. Silly songs about my dogs.This is for you if…
- You're a service provider, coach, or creative who sends emails and isn't sure if any of them are actually doing anything.
- You've been told to "write better emails" but nobody's told you what needs to be better.
- You've rewritten the same sentence four times and still can't tell if it's genius or the whole problem.
- You want a strategic framework to follow, not another "5 tips for stronger subject lines" blog post.
Basically, you're ready to figure out what's going on so you can fix it and keep moving forward.
Real people who've had me look at their emails:
"Omg it actually feels like copywriting now, not just brain dumping. My emails are intentional, strategic, and engaging. I’m not bored writing them, I feel more confident sending them, and I'm sometimes shocked by the words I end up with!"
Taylor, Instagram Coach + Content Creator
"She's helped bring out the 'me-ness' in my writing in a way I couldn't access on my own."
Rochelle, Custom Baker
"I know that any time I submit something to her, it's going to come back like gold."
Alana, Brand Photographer