Write A Killer Introduction To Your Story

Foreword By The Editor My thanks are due to Bryant Theodore for this article. The introductory paragraph of any written piece of work is your opportunity to draw the reader into the main text. That you already have his (her) attention means you have already won the first battle but this war consists of more [...]

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Ensuring Newsletter ‘Readability’

To be properly understood you must make sure that you are precise in some important areas. Avoid anything that unnecessarily distracts the reader’s attention from your message. If readers have to keep re-reading some sections of an article in order to work out what it means they are being distracted from the message.

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Making Newsletters Meaningful

To be successful a newsletter needs to contain lots of meaningful content. This doesn’t mean words of wisdom or correct grammar (these certainly help, of course) but content that the reader finds meaningful. The more you know about the reader, the easier it is to determine what content is meaningful.

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Writing Better Newsletter Articles

If you are not a professional writer, and don’t aspire to being one, but sometimes get burdened with the task of writing a newsletter or similar article, then you have probably found yourself at least once staring at a blank sheet wondering where to start. Welcome to the club!

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Sourcing Newsletter Content On The Internet (2)

Foreword By The Author This is the second in a series of articles where the focus is on sourcing newsletter content on the Internet. The full sequence of articles is as follows: Copyright Issues Help and Guidance Resources Subject Research Content Providers Mike Alexander For all your content needs go to ClipCopy Content Solutions Writing [...]

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Compelling Newsletter Content

Foreword By The Author I recently got a flyer in my mailbox (my real one, not my electronic one) from a real estate agent. It led with a query about whether I was interested in selling my home and following with a list of properties in my area that were on the market. It was [...]

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The Email Marketing Solution

Foreword By The Author Newsletters, whether hard copy or ezines, can often be the most effective way to publicize and promote a business, especially small, owner-operated businesses and, in the case of ezines, those with a wide geographical reach. There are a number of reasons why this is so but, for the purpose of this [...]

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