Generating outreach emails

Learn how to generate personalized outreach emails for your link building campaigns

Last updated: Feb 13, 2026

Once you have contacts for your sources, ConvertMate generates personalized 3-email sequences. Each email references specific details about the recipient, their content, and the value you're offering.

How email generation works

Email generation follows these steps:

  1. Content analysis - The source article is crawled and analyzed to understand its topics, writing style, and potential gaps your brand could fill
  1. Context building - Information is gathered about the contact, their company, and your value proposition
  1. Sequence generation - Three personalized emails are created, each building on the previous one
  1. Subject line creation - A compelling subject line is generated based on the article topic

The 3-email sequence

Each generated sequence includes:

Email 1: Initial outreach

  • References something specific about their article
  • Identifies a gap or opportunity
  • Introduces your brand/resource as a solution
  • Includes your incentive (if defined)
  • 100-120 words

Email 2: Follow-up

  • Brief reference to the first email
  • Adds a new angle or insight not mentioned before
  • More explicit about the incentive
  • 75-90 words

Email 3: Final follow-up

  • Acknowledges they're busy
  • Brief mention that the offer is still available
  • No-pressure close
  • 50-60 words

Email personalization

Emails are personalized based on:

  • Article content - Topics covered, content gaps identified, writing style
  • Contact role - Job title and seniority affect tone
  • Company size - Larger companies get more formal language, smaller ones get more casual
  • Your incentive - The value exchange is woven naturally into each email
  • Discovery topic - Why this source was relevant to your search

Email tone adaptation

The system adapts email tone based on the recipient's profile:

  • Executives at large companies - Formal, concise, respect their time
  • Contributors at large companies - Professional but approachable
  • Mid-size company contacts - Balanced professionalism with warmth
  • Small company/startup contacts - Friendly, conversational
  • Individual bloggers/freelancers - Warm, personal, relationship-focused

This adaptation affects language and framing, not the substance of your offer.

Generating emails

Single source

  1. Go to Outreach → Sources
  2. Click on a source with a contact
  3. Click Generate emails

Multiple sources

  1. Go to Outreach → Sources
  2. Check the boxes next to sources with contacts
  3. Click Generate emails in the toolbar

Email generation costs 10 credits per source.

Generation progress

While emails are being generated, you'll see progress updates:

  1. Crawling content (if not already done)
  2. Generating email 1
  3. Generating email 2
  4. Generating email 3
  5. Generating subject line

The full process typically takes 30-60 seconds per source.

Reviewing generated emails

After generation, click on the source to see:

  • Subject line - Short, topic-relevant, designed to get opened
  • Email 1, 2, 3 - The full email bodies

Each email shows the structured components:

  • Hook (opening line)
  • Problem/opportunity
  • Solution/value
  • Call to action

Regenerating emails

If you want different emails:

  1. Click on the source
  2. Click Regenerate emails

This creates a fresh sequence with different angles and wording. Regeneration costs 10 credits.

Email language

Emails are generated in the language you selected during discovery setup. Supported languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

Email delivery

ConvertMate sends emails on your behalf using our email infrastructure:

  • Emails are sent from ConvertMate
  • Each email includes a personalized greeting with the contact's first name
  • Follow-ups are automatically spaced (typically 3-5 days apart)
  • Sending is optimized for deliverability and timing

You don't need to manually send emails or manage timing - once you approve a source for sending, ConvertMate handles delivery of the full sequence automatically.

Using your Outreach Manager settings

If you've configured the Outreach Manager agent, email generation uses your saved preferences:

  • Email tone - Professional friendly, casual, formal, or concise
  • Custom instructions - Any specific guidelines you've provided
  • Target language - Default language preference
Configure your Outreach Manager

Best practices

Generate emails for promising sources only - Review your contacts and skip sources that aren't a good fit before generating emails. Review before approving - Check that the generated emails accurately represent your brand and offering before approving for send. Keep your incentive consistent - The emails use the incentive you defined in your discovery. Make sure you can deliver on it. Track responses - Source statuses update automatically when contacts reply, helping you monitor success rates.

What's next

Need help with email generation? Use the chat widget in the bottom-right corner, or email support@convertmate.io.

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