2. Newsletters are a very prime sales collateral utilized for external and internal
marketing in almost all the organizations.
Newsletters are a regular medium of communicating the latest happenings in the
companies and highlighting important facts and information to the external and
internal customers.
Foremost Challenge
Everyone must have witnessed, that when they like a company or a product, they
would not mind signing to the newsletter to be updated about the latest
happenings, but gradually they realize that their inbox is full of those newsletters
for which they don’t have time to read through.
Here comes a challenge w.r.t the content that can grab the attention of the user in
first few seconds of reading it.
If this is achieved, then you can be assured that your information is reaching your
target audience
3. Another important aspect to overcome this challenge is the selection of the right
segment of audience. If you are targeting the right audience, who are looking for the
information you are sending, then the chances of hits go high. So selection of the
right audience plays a prior role in the success of newsletters, even before working
on the content.
Format or outline?
Once the audience is selected, the newsletter designers should be aware of the
generic behavioral features of the audience in order to form a template or structure
of your newsletters.
For example, if you are talking about teens, more of visuals and figures would be
relevant as compared to texts.
Whereas, if the newsletter is targeted at business or commercial audience, the
content needs to be rich and substantial. These considerations are crucial to the
success of your newsletters and ultimately to your businesses too.
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5. You might want to create every newsletter of your company, a little
different and creative, but it is very important to also understand, that
the foundation theme of your newsletters should be same so that the
target audience can identify the letter with your brand.
Ideally, the color of your logo should be governing the theme in order to
publish your brand image on to the minds of the target consumers.
You could select whatever fonts you want to, keeping in mind
that the text should be legible and easy to read.
More complicated and high level fonts might not be so simple to
read and hence will not be able to carry your message to the
readers.
6. There is no standard template for newsletters. You can customize them the way you
want it and to any extent. While you design the structure and template, one thing
needs to be planned very carefully, and that is proper and articulated placement of
your content.
Be it figures, tables or text, every section needs to be organized and neatly blocked
so that the relation of the content is clearly and correctly understood. Placement of
content is another major factor that influences the readers understanding and
proper communication of the message to them.
Newsletter could form an extremely effective tool, if utilized, stringently and
productively considering all the influencing parameters and factors.