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Create an automated welcome series

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

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The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskSet up a three-email automated welcome series for new subscribers from the website popup. Email…+
Set up a three-email automated welcome series for new subscribers from the website popup. Email one should send immediately with a welcome note and the 10% off coupon code NEW10, email two at day 3 with top product picks and social proof, and email three at day 10 with FAQs and a prompt to upgrade. Apply the tag 'WelcomeSeriesStarted' on first send and remove it after the third email. Start the automation for anyone added to the 'Website popups' audience.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore we activate the welcome series, make approving it easier for the growth lead — surface…+
Before we activate the welcome series, make approving it easier for the growth lead — surface the expected conversion lift and the coupon margin impact on the first screen, make the coupon code NEW10 prominent in email one, show the timing logic for each step and why day 3 and day 10 were chosen, and flag any content that could increase support requests or conflict with current promotions.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentSupport just told me customers are redeeming the NEW10 code on returned items and it triggers…+
Support warned the coupon is being used on returns.
Support just told me customers are redeeming the NEW10 code on returned items and it triggers manual refunds. I launched a welcome series yesterday that uses NEW10 and now I'm worried this will create operational headaches and losses. I don't know how many redemptions to expect or whether the code should be limited by product or first purchase. What's the likely cause and the fastest configuration change to reduce risk before more redemptions happen?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternOur automated welcome emails bring more purchases but also spike support and refund work from…+
Our welcome series drives traffic but creates support work.
Our automated welcome emails bring more purchases but also spike support and refund work from coupon misuse. This recurring pattern wastes developer and support time. What three habit changes—covering coupon design, email timing, and tagging—would reduce support load while preserving conversion, and which one should we implement first?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Mailchimp's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.