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Why Your Email Promos Aren't Selling (Live Coaching Call with Allison Austin of The Kitschy Creative)

September 18, 2026·49 min
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Why Your Email Promos Aren't Selling (Live Coaching Call with Allison Austin of The Kitschy Creative) If you've ever sent a promotional email and gotten silence, or worse, a wave of unsubscribes, this episode is for you. It started with a post in a Facebook group for quilt pattern writers. Allison Austin of The Kitschy Creative shared that despite emailing consistently every week, rotating between tips, personal updates, promos, and blog roundups, her promo emails were getting zero sales and multiple unsubscribes. I asked if she'd be open to working through it together, live, on the podcast. She said yes. In this episode, we go through three of Allison's past emails together, along with her answers to a few questions about her business, and work through real changes she can make, not just to her emails, but to her brand as a whole. In this episode, you'll learn: What to include in your regular emails to keep your list excited to open them Why branding matters just as much as your email strategy, and how to stand out as a designer How to identify and communicate what makes your business uniquely you A few strategies Allison has used to grow her own email list and sales Whether you're a quilt pattern designer or run any kind of creative business, this episode will help you rethink how you talk to your audience, and what makes people actually want to buy from you. Connect with Allison Austin: The Kitschy Creative on Instagram: CLICK HERE Website: CLICK HERE

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