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The 5-Touch
Follow-Up Sequence

The exact email architecture that converts cold leads into booked calls. Two copy variants per touch. Customize the brackets and drop them directly into your CRM.

The average business gives up after 1.3 follow-up attempts. The average sale requires 5 to 7 contacts.

How to use this

  • Pick one variant per touch that matches your voice. A is more direct, B is more story-led
  • Replace all [bracketed text] with your specifics
  • Load all 5 into your CRM as a drip sequence with the specified day delays
  • The sequence runs automatically. You close the leads that reply.
Touch 1: Day 0
Deliver and Plant
Goal: deliver the asset, give one immediate action, set the tone
Send this immediately after someone opts in. The job is simple: deliver what you promised, give them one thing to do right now, and establish that you are going to be useful, not salesy.
Variant A: Direct
Subject
Your [resource name] is here. Do this first.
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Variant B: Warmer
Subject
[First Name], your copy is here.
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Touch 2: Day 3
Teach One Thing Deeper
Goal: demonstrate expertise, give a specific insight, reference the resource they downloaded
Pick one concept from your resource and go deeper than the resource itself does. The idea is: the free thing was valuable, and this email proves there is even more where that came from.
Variant A: Problem-first
Subject
The [metric] most businesses in your market never calculate
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Variant B: Story-led
Subject
I asked a client this question last week
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Touch 3: Day 5
Proof
Goal: make the teaching real with a specific case study: numbers, before, after
This is the trust-builder. The teaching from Touch 2 got them thinking. Now a real result makes it concrete. Use your best proof asset here. Specific numbers only. No vague "significant increase" language.
Variant A: Numbers-first
Subject
[Specific result]. Not impressions. Revenue.
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Variant B: Before-after narrative
Subject
They were spending $[X]/month and getting almost nothing
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Touch 4: Day 7
Handle the Objection
Goal: address "I've tried this before" before they say it on a call
By Day 7 the leads who are interested but not yet booking have one thing standing in the way: a bad past experience with [your offer or service category]. Name it before they do. Own the problem honestly. This email converts skeptics.
Variant A: Direct objection
Subject
You have probably tried this before
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Variant B: Reframe
Subject
Why most follow-up sequences fail
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Touch 5: Day 14
The Moment of Decision
Goal: soft close. Create a genuine choice without pressure, then move on
This is the last direct ask for a while. The tone is honest, not pushy. You are acknowledging the journey so far and giving them a clean yes or no. After this, they move to your long-term nurture, not the bin.
Variant A: Honest and direct
Subject
Last one from me on this (for now)
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Variant B: Question-led
Subject
One question before I move on
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Want this built and running in your business this week?

The sequence above is the framework. Building it (the copy, the CRM logic, the timing, the follow-up branches) takes a different level of effort. In the Growth Strategy Session we show you how it maps to your specific business and what it would look like running on autopilot.

Book a Free Growth Strategy Session 30 minutes. Live audit on your setup. You leave with the 3 highest-leverage fixes whether you work with us or not.