How to Write Effective Welcome Email

Many large and well established forums when I register and confirm I get a default welcome message and welcome PM

Welcome Email is something like

Dear $username,

Thanks for registering at XYZ Forum! We are glad you have chosen to be a part of our community and we hope you enjoy your stay.

All the best,
XYZ Forum

And welcome PM is

Thanks for registering at XYZ Forum We are glad you have chosen to be a part of our community and we hope you enjoy your stay.

All the best,
XYZ Forum

Before I integrated AWeber with my forums I always welcomed users in a much better and more customized way.

Go4Expert Welcome Email / PM

Hi $username,

Thanks for registering at Go4Expert Forums! We are glad you have chosen to be a part of our community and we hope you enjoy your stay.

We would suggest you to looks at the following links

Firstly Guidelines and then some hints and tips to help you in posting your queries. You can also look at Today’s topics as well as Unanswered topics.

You can browse through the Contests forum and vote / nominate your favorite articles and members .

You can edit your own posts after you have 10 posts and if you would like to edit your posts earlier contact Administrator.

Thanks again,
Go4Expert team

And now when I have the liberty of emailing what I feel like I welcome user with

Hi {!name_fix},

Thank you for your subscription to Go4Expert’s monthly newsletter – your subscription has been confirmed and you will receive your first newsletter very soon.

Please add info at go4expert.com to your email whitelist and/or contact/address list to ensure you get all our emails.

This newsletter is sent out on a monthly basis on second week of every month. While you wait for your first newsletter I’d like to extend my invitation to you to get to know G4Ef (As our community often calls it) a little better.

G4Ef Article Tips and Tutorials

Go4Expert has thousands of articles, tips and tutorials written by a variety of authors in many areas like programming, SEO, Ethical Hacking and many more. Visiting our front page you’ll see some of the latest tips but there are many more in the archives. Feel free to browse through them

• Programming
• Database
• Web Development
• Site Management
• Ethical hacking
• Operating System
• Search Engine

G4Ef Forum and Discussions

If you have specific query or anything to ask related to programming, web development, Ethical Hacking, you can ask them and can be rest assured tens of thousands of members who come together daily to the forums will be able to help you with your efforts.

Apart from all techie things we have lot of non-techie stuff as well. Monthly Article Competition which is quite popular where each month articles are nominated by forum members and among the nominated articles we choose the top 5 articles and conduct a member based poll to select the best articles for the month. Winner takes away all the prizes including the entire cash prize. Apart from that we have awards and badges for participation in forum. As you participate more in forums your rank goes up. Start participating and introduce yourself to our amazing community and feel free to welcome other new fellow members.

We look forward to seeing you around at G4Ef.

Go4Expert Team.

Programming and SEO Forum

PS again : Please add info at go4expert.com to your email whitelist and/or contact/address list to ensure you get all our emails.

Things to include in your Welcome Email

1. Be Human – If you have a welcome email already setup with some default content edit it. Welcome your user with a humanly and more customized email. This is the first impression to your user about your website.
2. Thanks Note – I always prefer to start my welcome email with a thanks note.
   

   Thanks for registering at Go4Expert Forums!

   Or

   Thank you for your subscription to Go4Expert’s monthly newsletter – your subscription has been confirmed and you will receive your first newsletter very soon.

3. Request to whitelist your email address – I think having this really helps in more than one way.
   

   Please add info at go4expert.com to your email whitelist and/or contact/address list to ensure you get all our emails.

   Apart from white-listing your email address he can also create automatic filters for all emails from your site.

4. Build an expectation - The next thing I prefer is to make user clear about what is coming and when. Go4Expert is a monthly newsletter and so I clearly state when he can expect the newsletter i.e. on second week of every month. This again helps me in more than one way.  Even if user subscribes to your list on a day just before you send your newsletter he will not think that he is getting too many emails.
5. Address your strong points – Last but most important part of any welcome email is to redirect users to other areas of your website. Any user who lands up on some internal page  is not expected to know all about what you have on your website and if you can redirect him to best part of your site he may easily convert from lurker to an active reader.

Over to you

Do you send welcome emails to your users? If yes what details do you prefer to include?