The Ultimate Guide To Newsletters

A business without a newsletter is like a sports car without wheels. It's nice to sit in and cool to look at, but for that car to have value, it must move forward. Similarly, a business without newsletters is just rusting in the garage. So if you want to continue using marketing tools that can't effectively drive growth, this book isn't for you. But if you want to know the TRUTH about newsletters - a marketing strategy that delivers consistent results, increases client retention, warms up cold leads, and brings in hundreds of new clients and referrals, then The Ultimate Guide to Newsletters is your solution! Forget all those marketing theories that haven't worked and hypotheticals that "don't apply to you." The Ultimate Guide to Newsletters takes you through the benefits of a custom newsletter campaign and how you can ... Increase retention and stay top of mind with clients and prospects. Use custom content and an original design for maximum impact. Build personal, powerful, and professional relationships with clients and prospects that are invaluable to your growth and success. Brought to you by the master of newsletter marketing, The Newsletter Pro himself, Shaun Buck, this book will show you how to get your custom print newsletter off the ground AND use it to maximize referrals and retention. Fresh off the success of the "No BS Guide to Maximum Referrals and Customer Retention," with marketing guru Dan S. Kennedy, Buck brings his 15 years of entrepreneurship to your business. Buck is the founder and CEO of The Newsletter Pro, a company that mails over 4 million newsletters annually. Now, with this book, he's sharing his secrets to direct mail success and accelerated business growth.

For nonprofit organizations, businesses, clubs, hobby groups, and professional societies, newsletters can, indeed, provide a perfect way to educate, motivate, sell, raise funds, and promote. Unfortunately, relatively few newsletters realize their full potential. Now, newsletter expert Carol Luers Eyman has written a comprehensive guide and reference to creating, maintaining, and marketing an effective, cost-efficient newsletter. "How to Publish Your Newsletter" is designed to steer editors, entrepreneurs, and volunteers through every phase of the newsletter publishing process. The author helps you set up shop, from the creation of a budget to the development of a capable staff and a realistic schedule. And she guides you through the writing and design of newsletter articles. Every aspect of the process, from planning to distribution, is carefully explored and explained, enabling you to launch your new newsletter--or improve your existing one--with both confidence and competence. Whether you strive to educate the public about new products, inspire your workers, or share information about health or politics, the newsletter can be an effective tool. "How to Publish Your Newsletter" will help you make that tool work for you.

Today, many organizations are raising more money with their newsletter than with traditional mail appeals.And after reading Tom Ahern's riveting book, Raising More Money with Newsletters than You Ever Thought Possible, it's easy to understand why.Great newsletters, as distinguished from the mundane ones many of us receive, have so much more going for them.For starters, they deliver real news (not tired features such as "From the Director's Desk'' and "Introducing Our New Staff"). They make the donor feel important. They use emotional triggers to spur action. They're designed in a way to attract both browsers and readers. And they don't depend on dry statistics to make the organization's case.The essence of Raising Money with Newsletters than You Ever Thought Possible centers around seven fatal flaws, as Ahern calls them. And along the way to discussing ? and dissecting ? these flaws, the reader is treated to such chapters as:o Making news out of thin airo What a front page is foro Lower the grade level of your writingo Anecdotes versus statso How should it look? A proven formulaTransforming your newsletter into a substantial money raiser isn't all that difficult. As Ahern himself says, "You don?t need a degree in journalism to publish a newsletter that will keep your donors inspired (and generous). You just need a few skills and insights."Read this book. Pick up those skills. And be assured that the ratio of time spent versus gains realized might well be the most cost-effective of your entire career.

Send Better Email. Build a Better Business. With more than 2.6 million email messages sent every second, it's becoming harder to stand out in inboxes—not to mention in a sea of spam, which accounts for 67 percent of those emails. Marketing and strategic branding expert Susan Gunelius gives you the tools you need to grow your list of email subscribers, keep them engaged, and turn them into lifelong customers. By focusing on building a strong foundation first, you'll learn how to develop a comprehensive email marketing program designed to evolve with your business. Then, Gunelius shows you how to convert subscribers into buying customers and vocal brand advocates with the techniques that marketing professionals use to build their businesses and increase their revenue using email. You'll learn how to: Use free content to encourage people to subscribe to your email list Develop conversion funnels that drive people to buy from you or sign up for your webinars Save time and keep subscribers engaged with your brand with email automation Boost conversions with list segmentation techniques designed to get the right message to the right people at the right time Test your messages and analyze your performance using key metrics to improve your results Win back customers with automation and personalization strategies designed to build a one-on-one relationship with your audience Understand the laws and deliverability rules you must follow and tools to help you along the way

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