Writing Newsletters Online: How to Get it Right
...... 'newsletters' as a promotional ploy to drive you to pages on their sites.
In one way, it's understandable. As anyone with a newsletter knows, if you have one or two links to your site in the newsletter, your site traffic really spikes on the days you send out the newsletter.
When you see that, it's tempting to optimize the entire newsletter ' its format and content ' as a means to drive additional traffic and generate more sales.
As a result, you now see numerous newsletters where an article is not included in its entirety. You simply get a teaser and a link to a page on their site. Or else you get a 'newsletter' that looks just like the site interface, with all the various navigation links and promotional messages included.
This may be great if you want to maximize the traffic to your site each time you send out a newsletter. But there is a catch.
The catch is, if there is less value in your newsletter itself, your subscribers will quickly begin to become bored with it. After all, with a zillion other promotional emails cluttering our inboxes ' why pay special attention to a 'newsletter' that is simply another sales pitch'
The real value of a newsletter that contains valuable content is long-term. You'll get more word-of-mouth, you'll get higher open-rates, and you'll get long-term readers who look forward to your newsletter, for years ahead.
Is there a compromise' Sure there is. A valuable newsletter doesn't need to be text-only without a single link, or devoid of any promotional elements.
Just make sure that every newsletter contains some valuable content, in its entirety. Give people a real reason to look forward to receiving it, opening it and reading it. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nick Usborne is a copywriter, author and speaker. You can access all his newsletter articles on writing for the web at his http://www.excessvoice.com
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