Our last three newsletters have covered the hot topic of email newsletters and their importance: Keeping Your Customers Informed, How to Build Your Subscriber List, and How To Write Your Newsletter. If you’re new to our newsletter or have missed out on any of these editions, to view the complete series see the link at the end of this article.

So having accepted the importance of producing an email newsletter, you’ve begun to establish your subscriber list and have started writing, or gathering content for it, how are you going to improve and make money from your publication? This month we are going to tackle Ways to Improve and Make Money from your Newsletter.

Getting Your Newsletter Delivered

The first issue is to make sure that your subscribers are opening your newsletters. It may sound obvious, they’ve subscribed to receive this free but valuable information of course they’ll open and read it, right? Wrong! There’s a whole host of delivery issues that can stop them.

This can be a particular problem if you are using an html template style email as opposed to a plain text version. You may need to educate your readers about the need to add trusted senders to their address books as it is a fact that many email programmes and email address providers wont display the html content of emails sent by sources not in the recipients address book. Some won’t even include the html by default even if you are in their address book! Unless your subscribers have added you to their address book, there’s a good chance they won’t see your HTML graphics and if your important text is contained within a graphic, they may therefore not see any part of it.

So what should you do?

Well, you have a few options:

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