What emails should I send for a Mother's Day campaign at my boutique?
Send three emails timed to match shopper mindset: a warm gift guide on May 4, a last-call shipping deadline on May 7, and a digital gift card rescue on May 9.
“One owner on the Shopify forums said the Tuesday or Wednesday before gets more clicks than earlier sends.”
Your three-email sequence should match the three mental states of a Mother's Day shopper. Email one goes out about a week before and serves as a warm gift guide with six curated picks organized by budget. A subject line like 'She dropped hints, we took notes' works well here. Email two goes out around the Tuesday or Wednesday before Mother's Day with a shipping deadline and a sense of urgency. Email three drops on the final Friday as a short, punchy digital gift card rescue — zero friction, instant delivery.
Personalized emails see twenty-nine percent higher open rates and forty-one percent higher click-through rates compared to generic blasts. Even on a small list of two hundred subscribers, if ten percent buy a seventy-five-dollar gift card from your final email, that's fifteen hundred dollars from a twenty-minute task.
Schedule all three emails at once so you never stall mid-campaign. Sending them late collapses your window and leaves money on the table.
Listen to the full episode: Episode 15: 10 Days to Mother's Day: The Last-Chance Campaign Checklist That Captures Procrastinator Buyers
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Source: BoutiquePulse podcast. Last updated: 2026-04-29 · Sourcing & methodology · Corrections log