It’s good news week!

It’s good news week!

When an email lands in your inbox what makes you want to open it? Let’s be honest – we get loads of rubbish emails that evade the spam filter and are greeted with a quick click of the delete button.  But there are emails that you actively want to open – why? My guess...
Warm and fuzzy feelings

Warm and fuzzy feelings

If you send out a newsletter, regularly or irregularly, what is the purpose of it? There are lots of answers to this: To remind people what we do To keep people up-to-date with what we’re doing To introduce new team members to our list To let people know about new...
What IS a newsletter?

What IS a newsletter?

There are many opinions about what a newsletter is.  There is a faction that says the secret is in the name ‘NEWS-letter’.  However, what constitutes news for your audience? It’s probably not what YOU consider to be news, but remember that you’re delivering content to...
Newsletters: For or against?

Newsletters: For or against?

Do you like newsletters?  Do you read the ones that arrive in your email inbox? We send out a newsletter twice a month, but it’s not really ‘news’, in the sense that it’s not about what’s going on in our business.  Nobody cares about what we’re doing, only in getting...
What’s the point?

What’s the point?

Newsletters are becoming fewer.  It’s rare to get an actual printed newsletter in today’s world, everyone is going green and the perception is that a digital communication is greener than a printed one (and there’s a whole can of worms there, but now is not the place...
Open, click or delete

Open, click or delete

If you send out a regular newsletter you want to know people are reading it.  Most of the email marketing platforms (e.g. MailChimp, AWeber, GetResponse, etc) send out stats showing how many opens and links clicked your message gets.  This should give you an idea...