Top 5 Tips For New Freelance Writers

The following five tips for freelance writers by Kyle M. Deighton (see the thumbnail bio at the end of the article) will, in her own words, help you to go from a novice freelance writer to a seasoned pro.

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The Top 4 Reasons For Article Marketing Your Business

Foreword By The Editor Article marketing goes hand in hand with newsletter writing for obvious reasons. Or perhaps for you it is not so obvious?  The fact is that newsletter content consists very largely of articles and publishers need to be aware of the potential for the dual role their articles can play. They can [...]

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What Is The Unique Article Wizard?

Foreword By The Editor This article by James Kimmel is an excellent appraisal of an online article submission tool by the name of Unique Article Wizard. It truly is an amazing piece of software that produces amazing results and finding it is a real ‘Eureka!’ moment for most users. There are so many inferior ‘copycat’ [...]

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Graphics And Color In Newsletters

Foreword By The Author Two main considerations have a bearing on whether or not color or graphics should be used in a newsletter, and if so, to what extent. The type of newsletter is one, and method of production is the other. The second of these, of course, might be dependant on what in-house devices [...]

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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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The Power Of Newsletter Marketing (2)

Foreword By The Author In Part 1 of this article [The Power Of Newsletter Marketing (1)] we looked at the use of newsletters in their main PR role for small businesses in general terms, with an emphasis on local events. Before pressing on, let us review the reasoning behind PR and why it is so [...]

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The Power Of Newsletter Marketing (1)

Foreword By The Author To properly utilize the power of newsletter marketing, it is first necessary to understand the meaning and uses of Public Relations, since most definitions of each are interchangeable between the two. In other words, you need to think of newsletters in this context as the ‘communication arm’ of a PR campaign [...]

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The Table Of Contents

Foreword By The Author The TOC (Table Of Contents) section is the part of any newsletter content that is essentially a list of the major articles and features contained in that edition with pointers to where they appear. Newsletter fillers or secondary items are not normally included, as that would detract from its major purpose: [...]

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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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Why ‘Reader Attitude’ Is Important

When producing a newsletter, try to focus attention primarily on your core readership. By ‘core readership’ I mean a representative group of readers that stay in the forefront of your mind when you are planning and putting together each edition.

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