Re: newsletter approaches

[Sean Wheller <sean -at- inwords -dot- co -dot- za>]

On Monday 08 January 2007 09:40, Erika Yanovich wrote:
> We are sending an HTML e-newsletter to our customers which includes
> contents exclusively created for the newsletter (cannot be found on our
> website as articles). However, the entire newsletter archive can be
> found on the site. Since the newsletter editor is on maternity leave,
> I'm getting help from a graphic designer and according to her this is
> not the way a newsletter should look like. She prefers a much shorter
> HTML, full of links to articles that appear on the site and no actual
> contents. I must say I'm subscribed to such a newsletter, but it always
> annoys me me that there is no real contents, just a bunch of links. Is
> this a de-facto standard? Opinions appreciated.

Perhaps a compromise. When adding too much content, subscribers may not want 
to scan down all articles to see if there is something worth reading. So give 
them a few lines per article, usually an abstract, then follow it by a read 
more ... link.

This way you can put many headlines and shorter abstracts into a single 
letter. Readers can glimpse the overall of what is going on from these pieces 
of information and click-through when they want to read more. In this way, 
readers can get a better overall view of what is going on and still access 
the meat.

Hope this helps,

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