The $1 Million-a-Month Email Sequence

The $1 Million-a-Month Email Sequence

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Author: Jeremy Haynes | founder of Megalodon Marketing.

The $1 Million-a-Month Email Sequence

Table of Contents

How Value-Dense Emails Multiply Show-Rates, Shrink Sales Cycles, and Unlock Bigger Pay-in-Fulls


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Key Takeaways

  1. Your buyer hunts for information long before a sales call. When you withhold that information you lengthen the cycle, lower show-rates, and voluntarily increase resistance.
  2. Frequency is fuel—up to six value-dense emails a day without depressing open-rates is not only possible, it’s profitable. The moment opens crater below your established floor, you’ve gone too far; pull back one slot and hold.
  3. Treat the email itself as the consumable. Because 95-98 % of recipients never click, the body copy must carry every case-study, proof-point, and FAQ rather than merely linking to them.
  4. Breakout videos + confirmation-page best practices + value-dense emails = a compounding lift across every KPI that matters. Show-rates soar, close-rates climb, average order value spikes, and pay-in-fulls (PIFs) become the new normal.
  5. Your sales team is a goldmine of content. Mine them for the objections that stall deals, the answers that “grease the wheels,” and the questions that force follow-up calls—you’ll never wonder what to write again.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction: Why “Reminder” Emails Are Dying
  2. Frequency Framework: From Polite Pings to Six-a-Day Assaults
  3. The Open-Rate Floor & Ceiling: How to Know You’ve Hit the Limit
  4. Click-Through Reality: 2-5 % and Why It Changes Everything
  5. Email-as-Consumable Architecture
  6. Breakout Videos & Confirmation Pages: The Power Trio
  7. The Hammer Them Content Matrix
  8. Mining Your Sales Team for 18 Days of Questions
  9. Implementation Blueprint: Turning Theory into $1M-Months
  10. Final Word: Stop Starving Your Buyer

1. Introduction: Why “Reminder” Emails Are Dying

Skimming through a client’s backend and seeing nothing but generic “Your call is tomorrow—don’t forget!” messages makes me itch. Even worse is when those messages use words like homework (“Hey, your homework is to watch this video”) and expect the prospect to jump for joy. That language is selfish, surface-level, and painfully outdated—it does nothing for the buyer’s decision-making process.

Across 41 businesses that we’ve helped cross the million-dollar-month benchmark, one truth rules: information density wins. Buyers want answers now—answers to every logistical, strategic, financial, and emotional question that could keep them from prioritizing your call, webinar, or challenge. If you fail to deliver, you pay in no-shows, multi-call closes, discounted deals, and fewer pay-in-fulls.

We make zero income claims here. I’m simply handing down the lessons carved out in the trenches with entrepreneurs already posting seven-figure MRR. Adopt, adapt, deploy.


2. Frequency Framework: From Polite Pings to Six-a-Day Assaults

Most marketers tiptoe around “email fatigue” and settle for one dainty touch per day. Meanwhile, our top performers blast up to six value-dense emails between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.—roughly every other hour—and the open-rate does not diminish. In fact, consuming the extra emails raises aggregate opens because the buyer’s appetite for intel skyrockets as the decision moment approaches.

Here’s the governing logic:

ScenarioTypical Delay Before ActionRecommended Emails/Day
Call funnel booked 48-72 hrs out2–3 days6
Webinar promoted 14 days out14 days1–5, escalating as event nears
Challenge funnel ticket purchasedVariesMirror webinar cadence

If a webinar sits two weeks out, we’ll drip confirmation + light context for the first ten days, then hammer the final 72–96 hours with the heaviest value. It’s the same principle traders use while scaling into a position: size up as conviction peaks.

When Frequency Feels Uncomfortable

Even I raised an eyebrow the first time a client pushed six a day. But data shuts down doubt:

  • Stable opens = green light to press harder.
  • Falling opens (dropping below your floor—more on that next) = you over-rotated; step back one slot.

That’s it. Emotion is irrelevant; metrics decide.


3. The Open-Rate Floor & Ceiling: How to Know You’ve Hit the Limit

Old-school email wisdom treated 30–50 % open as “pretty good.” Today, when you respect the buyer’s hunger for information, 50–70 % is standard.

Think in ranges:

  • Ceiling: the highest open you’ve observed (often the first send in a day).
  • Floor: the lowest open that still shows the list is healthy.

Example: Email 1 opens at 70 %, Email 2 at 54 %, Email 3 at 52 %, Email 4 at 51 %, Email 5 at 38 %. If 50 % has consistently been your floor, that 38 % tells you five is one too many. Pull back to four and hold.

Remember, a 20-point swing inside the range is normal. Breaking the floor by a “significant” amount (we use ≈ 8–10 pts) is the red flag.


4. Click-Through Reality: 2-5 % and Why It Changes Everything

While open-rates have exploded, click-through stubbornly sits at 2–5 %. That means 95–98 % of your readers will never touch the link to your beautifully produced video, podcast, or Gamma-built sales asset.

The practical takeaway: the email copy itself must deliver the value. Links become optional amplifiers, not primary vehicles.


5. Email-as-Consumable Architecture

Think of each send as a self-contained consumable:

  1. Headline-Style Subject Line
    Promise a concrete benefit or answer a burning question (“How Six Emails a Day Raised Our Open-Rate to 68 %”).
  2. Opening Hook
    Two to three sentences that slam straight into the prospect’s pain or curiosity.
  3. Value Body
    500–1,200 words unpacking a single question, objection, or motivator—complete with case-study slices, micro-stories, data snaps. This is where the old “homework” crowd runs out of breath; you won’t.
  4. Micro-CTA
    Optional link to the corresponding breakout video, long-form FAQ, or explainer page for the 2–5 % who click.
  5. PS (Optional)
    Reinforce urgency (“Your call is in 18 hrs. Every unanswered question steals confidence—this email just handed you the answers.”).

Multiply that structure by the total questions you need to answer and you own the inbox.


6. Breakout Videos & Confirmation Pages: The Power Trio

Breakout Videos

  • Quantity: 6–18 per offer.
  • Placement: confirmation pages, stand-alone landing pages, or embedded in sales assets.
  • Purpose: pre-empt objections, frame premium pricing, reveal implementation mechanics, and accelerate conviction.

Confirmation-Page Best Practices (Cliff Notes)

We furnish inner-circle members with a 20-point SOP, but at minimum:

  1. Headline acknowledging the next step (“Your Strategy Call Is Locked for May 23 at 2 p.m.”).
  2. Breakout video grid answering the most expensive questions.
  3. Calendar add button (Google, Outlook, iCal).
  4. Social proof stack (case-study clips, logos, screenshots).

The Synergy

The breakout video script becomes the source code of your value-dense emails. Even though only a sliver will click through, the option exists; meanwhile the email body carries the full narrative.


7. The Hammer Them Content Matrix

Before key events we unleash a short- and long-form propaganda machine:

  • 30–50 micro pieces (vertical clips, quote cards, GIFs).
  • 15–30 long-form pieces (YouTube pods, reels, deep-dives).

Prospects see you everywhere—social feeds, stories, inbox. By the time the high-frequency email surge hits, familiarity is rock-solid and skepticism is eroding by the minute.


8. Mining Your Sales Team for 18 Days of Questions

Forget guesswork. Pick up the phone:

“Team, what questions are stalling deals right now? Which answers slam the door shut and move prospects to I’m in? What pricing or funding hang-ups drag calls into a second session?”

Catalog every response in three columns:

  1. Deal Accelerators – statements that trigger a buy-now.
  2. Deal Killers – objections that force a follow-up.
  3. Logistical Unknowns – schedule, delivery, tech, funding details.

If your call funnel window is three days at six emails a day, you need 18 robust emails. One serious answer per send. If your frequency caps at four, double-stack questions in each email—length is a virtue here. Hundreds or even low thousands of words per send is normal.


9. Implementation Blueprint: Turning Theory into $1M-Months

  1. Audit your current flows. Strip out generic reminders; keep booking links and timing details, but nothing else survives.
  2. Source the questions. One afternoon with your closers will surface 30–50 war-tested Qs.
  3. Film breakout videos. Record 6–18 five-minute clips answering the heaviest items. Host on unlisted YouTube, Wistia, or a simple landing page—speed over polish.
  4. Draft value-dense copy. Pair each question with a data point, mini-story, testimonial, and clear takeaway. Shoot for 800 words as your floor.
  5. Establish frequency.
    • Calls: blast six a day from booking until 30 minutes pre-call.
    • Webinars/Challenges: slow drip early, escalate to 4–6 a day inside the final 72 hours.
  6. Monitor opens. Note your ceiling and floor on day 1. If a send dives beneath the floor by ~10 pts, subtract one email from the stack.
  7. Layer Hammer Them content. Schedule social clips to blanket the feed in parallel with email cadence.
  8. Measure the lift. Track show-rate, close-rate, AOV, and percentage of PIFs. Our clients routinely see:
    • Show-rate lift: 15–30 %.
    • Sales-cycle shrink: 1–2 calls down to single call.
    • PIF uptick: 22–40 %.
    • AOV bump: 12–25 %.
  9. Iterate forever. As soon as sales uncovers a fresh objection, craft a new breakout video and transplant the transcript into its own email. The sequence is a living organism—feed it or watch it decay.

10. Final Word: Stop Starving Your Buyer

People do not buy because you reminded them to hop on Zoom. They buy because every lingering doubt was annihilated before the call began. They buy because you respected their need for details, because six unapologetically valuable emails hit their inbox in the precise window when curiosity was highest, and because the confirmation page greeted them with binge-worthy answers the moment they said “I’m interested.”

That is the $1 million-a-month email sequence. It isn’t magic, and it certainly isn’t polite. It’s aggressive clarity—delivered at scale—backed by the metrics that matter.

Implement the framework, watch resistance evaporate, and enjoy the most satisfying line item on your P&L: Pay-in-Fulls Received.

Now go hammer them.

About the author:
Owner and CEO of Megalodon Marketing

Jeremy Haynes is the founder of Megalodon Marketing. He is considered one of the top digital marketers and has the results to back it up. Jeremy has consistently demonstrated his expertise whether it be through his content advertising “propaganda” strategies that are originated by him, as well as his funnel and direct response marketing strategies. He’s trusted by the biggest names in the industries his agency works in and by over 4,000+ paid students that learn how to become better digital marketers and agency owners through his education products.

Jeremy Haynes is the founder of Megalodon Marketing. He is considered one of the top digital marketers and has the results to back it up. Jeremy has consistently demonstrated his expertise whether it be through his content advertising “propaganda” strategies that are originated by him, as well as his funnel and direct response marketing strategies. He’s trusted by the biggest names in the industries his agency works in and by over 4,000+ paid students that learn how to become better digital marketers and agency owners through his education products.