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nesses will tell you, sending email newsletters is so much better. Here’s why: • It’s more affordable. You don’t have to invest a lot of money sending out digital newsletters, because you don’t have to print out anything. You don’t have to spend precious man-hours stuffing these printed materials into envelopes. Printing and paying for postage is expensive too. • It’s also more convenient. In comparison to traditional newsletter marketing – email newsletters are easy to create, and take less time to reach more people. • It’s easy to track your efforts. With direct marketing, you know it’s working when your sales spike up after launching a DM campaign. But if it doesn’t work, you can’t really pinpoint the exact reason. But you can with free analytical tools inside your newsletter service dashboard. You can find out the percentage of emails that were opened, whether you used an effective headline or not and most importantly you can find out how many of your recipients clicked on your call to action. • Your newsletters are easy to share. With printed materials like brochures, you can share them with only a handful of people – and that’s if you’re lucky. But that’s one reason why email newsletters are so great - subscribers share and forward your newsletters to their own contact list. So if you send something that your recipients will find a lot of value in email is the perfect medium to spread the word to their contacts. Newsletter Topics that Get Clicks Y our newsletter should be helpful and offer value in some way – The main objective is to help your customer resolve a specific problem related to your industry and continue to engage them – so when the time comes, they come to you for a solution. Some good newsletter topic ideas to get you started include: Company News People like getting an inside look at your business (awards, nominations) and anything that happens inside your company (new employee, charitable event, etc)