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MarketingSherpa best enewsletters

by Nettie Hartsock on January 7, 2009

Here’s a superb sampling of the best enewsletters and how companies, individuals and non-profits are using them to foster leads, engagement and community.

Resolve to do an e-newsletter this year. It will be a great benefit to you and your prospective customers.

Here are three e-newsletter companies you can use to push your news out:

MadMimi.com

ConstantContact.com

MyEmma.com

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E-newsletters Still Have Value

by Nettie Hartsock on December 11, 2008

I’m a big fan of a good content-laden e-newsletter. I think e-newsletters are very valuable for reaching out and staying in touch with folks on a monthly or quarterly basis. Even in the constant drone of all the Web 2.0 tools we’re all supposed to be hip, savvy and using endlessly, don’t lose sight of the e-newsletter and its value.

E-newsletters help folks connect with you, and using them enables you to inspire, engage and initiate real connection.

Before I share some of my favorite e-newsletters, I had to share Joe Pulizzi’s fantastic post titled, “10 Content Marketing Tips To Start Now for 2009″ and urge you to go and read it.

Good content builds trust. Good content empowers relationships. Good content engenders community.

Some of my current favorite e-newsletters include:

Junta42’s newsletter

Cincom’s stellar Expert Access e-newsletter

B.L. Ochman’s “What’s Next Online” e-newsletter

Publishers Lunch e-newsletter

All of these offer value to the reader, a unique take on the world at large and inspiring content.

Don’t leave e-newsletters out of your mix.

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The Best Speeches Are All About Content: Tips for Empowering Your “Speechability”

December 1, 2008

Omidyar, Randy Pausch, Daniel Pink and Speeches

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Keeping Writing A daily Practice

April 4, 2008

This is a superb how-to article in terms of making writing part of your daily practice and using a writer’s notebook to do it.
Keep in mind that writing anything is really about sitting down and actually writing! Talking about writing, dreaming about what you’re going to write, editing one paragraph over and over again until [...]

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Ladies and Gentleman Start Your Acronyms

April 3, 2008

This is a really cool place to find acronyms and their definitions. I’m writing an acronym-based monologue so I’m using a ton of these. Great resource IMHO. (look it up)

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Daily Writing Tips

March 7, 2008

Daily Writing Tips is a great site for getting a daily boost of writing confidence and tips for expanding your writing professionally as well.

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I don’t have time to write!

October 5, 2007

I cannot tell you how many people call me and tell me they want to write a book or even just become a freelance copywriter but they don’t have time to do it.
What????
Time is what you make of it. There is no easy solution to writing a book other than to start at page one [...]

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Bob Bly’s Beating the Control Copy

September 18, 2007

I’m a giant and devoted fan of Bob Bly and anything he writes about “writing.” This is a particularly great article in DM News this month on copywriting and how to best meet the challenges in writing great copy where Bob relates a ton of other expert copywriter tips.
Honestly this article alone should be printed [...]

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Freelance Writers In Austin - Shamelessly Persistent!

September 12, 2007

I had the great pleasure today to present to a really savvy group of freelance writers and editors and PR folks in Austin. One of the things this reminded me of was how hard freelance writers work to keep generating work! I still write and I know it’s tough to keep your spirits high sometimes.
So [...]

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March 10, 2007

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Tom Chandler’s Negotiating Tips

February 16, 2007

Tom Chandler has one of the best posts I’ve read on negotiating on writing gigs. And this is an excellent writing blog to read. Now for a polite southern gal the title seemed a bit racey, but after one Mint Julip all was good! Go and read it!

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Writing - Feast or Famine

February 9, 2007

I’m a little tired of writers out there who are perpetuating fear of other writers taking away their opportunities. I’m an e-card carrying member of the Internet Press Guild and the Online News Association and in both cases, on both lists there is nothing but support for everyone’s endeavors and tons of good "feasting" on [...]

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