Best of the inbox: an abandonment sequence for affiliate offers

You can't see the merchant's cart, so you build intent triggers yourself. Here's the workaround playbook.

🎯 Trigger
— Tag the click, not the cart — when a subscriber clicks an offer but doesn't convert (no postback fire), that's your abandon signal.
— Wait 1 hour, then fire email 1 — soon enough to stay top-of-mind, late enough to not feel creepy.

📥 Sequence
— Email 1 = remove a single objection — price, trust, or 'is it for me'. One barrier per email.
— Email 2 at 24h = urgency or bonus — a real deadline or your own added incentive, not fake scarcity.

🔁 Cap
— Stop at 3 touches — beyond that you train spam complaints.

Why these picks: click-based triggering is the only abandon signal an affiliate actually controls, and most never wire it up.

Saved you ~2 hours of automation design.