We love to offer the links that we use for our continuing education to our readers. As Shari and I will tell you often, we never stop learning. We look forward to your comments on our posts and links to our information that you make, but also enjoy answering your questions. We don’t profess to be ‘guru’s’ or marketing coaches, even though we do offer ‘lite coaching’ and marketing direction. It’s just responsible business to offer your learned prowess in anything that you do.

We’d like to encourage you to keep a notebook of your learning experiences; things that worked for your small business, and things that didn’t. No doubt there will be a laundry list of both. It’s helpful to keep notes and refer to them often, because as you do, you’ll see that many times all that is required is a little tweaking of an earlier thought, or just a little more understanding of a thing.

Kaye Z. Marks, Where Is Your Marketing Attention Focused?

Adam Ostrow, Mashable, How To Take Advantage Of Social Media In Your Email Marketing

Earlier this week:

So, What’s In A Newsletter Anyway?

Great Newsletter Design Is Nothing Without Targeted Content

Resources For Great Newsletter Design:

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Alberts Illustration And Design

Express It Write!

If you stop to think about it, we’re all marketers. We all have something to sell and we need to market it, whether product or service. Narrowing the focus of your newsletter to your particular niche will increase your bottom line – whether you’ve got a huge list, or not. Your email marketing list is an important feature, don’t get me wrong, but look at it this way:

Not everyone who goes into a store is looking for the same thing.

What is the strongest thing you offer, and who wants it? Your list can be divided up in such a way that your message targets the particular group who has already shown interest in a thing, or is in the category of someone who may not know that your product or service is their remedy.

The templates shown on AWeber for newsletter design are a nice way to present your message, and it does impact on your readership to a degree, but the most important thing will always be the content specific material that is provided in it.

Kaye Z. Marks says it this way in her article titled, Where Is Your Marketing Attention Focused?,

If you send out a mass mailing to everyone you can, odds are the people who will take interest are the same people you could have specifically targeted from the beginning instead of wasting money sending something to all the people who did not have interest.”

She’s absolutely right. Some of you stop here for information on marketing your small business by yourself, others want to know if they trust the claims about our services that we make. As our list grows, so will our specific newsletter offerings to each separate group of readers. Posture yourself through AWeber by using sign up forms and your first welcome responder email template to find out just where their needs are.

A great newsletter takes much forethought, but the right tools make all the difference.

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