Writing Email Newsletters

If you don't know this already you need to know that email newsletters aren't just about providing information to your customers about what's happening in the company. It's also a way to market your company and the primary reason you will be sending out the emails in the first place. A newsletter can help you reach a bigger audience while it can also help you establish your authority as well as your brand. You can up sell your product or service and grow your business as long as you know how to write the newsletter.

Remember, if you have been advertising on the radio, in print, or even thinking of TV ads, then you are spending too much money on advertising without tapping into the easiest and most affordable method of all, which is through email newsletters. It might be surprising, but sending your subscribers an email newsletter on a monthly basis is a wonderful way to advertise and it is more effective in many cases than the other methods mentioned above. Not to mention, it is practically free.

The email newsletter is basically a method of sending a traditional newsletter. It has all of the same information except it may include links to your website or to other relevant information. There are many things you may include in a newsletter, including company events, prices of shares, promotions, awards, new products, how to articles, research and the like.

Tips for Writing

When it comes to actually writing your email newsletter there are several tips you need to follow to ensure success. There is nothing more difficult than trying to write something and having no idea how to get started. These tips will provide you a roadmap that will help you along the way.

Personal

First, always address each newsletter with the reader's name. When you are personal you are more likely to create a connection with the reader and they are more likely to read it and act on your sales call.

News

Make each newsletter up to date and with news. Don't include old information that was in past newsletters that your readers have already read. Always provide something new and worthwhile to keep them interested and reading.

Research

Another tip is to research what your readers want to know. Do surveys, talk in chat rooms and simply find out what your readers are dying to know. When you know what your readers are interested in then you are better able to write a newsletter that has the information they need.

Headlines and Scanning

Finally, write your content in a way that it can easily be scanned by reading the headlines. Nobody likes big blocks of text and by breaking your newsletter up into small blocks of text with easy to scan headlines you will make it easier on the reader to find what they want to read first and to keep their interest. This is definitely the method you will want to use when writing your email text.