Creating an email-based newsletter let’s you stay in touch with your customers. You can use your newsletter to give advance notice of upcoming specials or to announce new products and services. Email-based newsletters are inexpensive compared to traditional direct mail initiatives.

Some things to consider when creating an email campaign:

• don’t buy mailing lists – build your own list from your web site visitors, at tradeshows or conferences, in-store and referrals;
• offer an easy way for your subscribers to automatically unsubscribe if they wish to do so;
• allow your subscribers to decide if they wish to receive plain text or HTML-based emails;
• personalize your newsletter with the recipients’s name;
• offer a sale or other time-sensitive incentives to encourage your subscribers to take action quickly;
• ensure your content provides just enough information to entice your readers to visit your web site for more information; and
• track your progress (ROI – return on investment).

For several years, I have been assisting clients in creating their email-based newsletters. The web host I use offers mailing list software to send out text-based emails. This has been an effective solution for some of my clients.

To create HTML-based email newsletter campaigns, I use Constant Contact. This system allows for customized email newsletters in both HTML and plain text formats to be sent to an opt-in mailing list and tracks email opens, bounces, and click-throughs.

Newsletters Designed

Screen shots of the newsletters I have created are available for viewing:

• Hooker’s Hotline – Rittermere-Hurst-Field – PDF Version (146 Kb)
• Family Ties E-letter – Pervin Family Business Advisors Inc. – PDF Version (45 Kb)

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