Successful Client Newsletters: The Complete Guide
to Creating Powerful Newsletters provides advice, samples, and
solutions for the all-too-common strategic, editorial, and design problems
legal professionals face when trying to create or maintain an effective
newsletter for their clients.
Written specifically for lawyers, editors, writers, and marketers, this book
offers expert guidance
on how to start a newsletter from scratch, redesign an existing one, or simply
learn more about
the design, production, and marketing of your newsletter. Milton Zwicker walks
you through each step of the process so that you produce a newsletter that your
clients look forward to receiving and won't dump in the circular file.
Successful Client Newsletters shares how to:
- Develop a marketing plan for your newsletter. Five essential steps
to planning a successful newsletter. Forms include target market analysis,
goals and objectives analysis, and newsletter action plan.
- Compose powerful headlines. Instructions on how to lure your readers
with compelling
headlines. Offers sample "hook'em" headlines and the 16 best promotional
words to use.
- Create compelling content. Learn how to develop
content that satisfies your target audience. Offers writing tips, developing
the lead, and working with volunteer editors. Forms include reader
survey and annual content plan.
- Establish a reasonable budget. Features discussions on design, editorial,
production, and
distribution costs. Sample forms include a planning report and a quarterly
publishing budget.
- Select an efficient format for print and Internet editions. How
to design with color, use
photographs and graphics, and pick the right format. Plus, the ins & outs
of electronic publishing and how to meet the needs of your online readers.
If you are considering the publication of your first newsletter, or want to revamp
your existing process, this book is a must-read. You'll get a thorough overview
of the entire process and will refer to Zwicker's insights, charts, planning
tools, writing ideas, and design tips time and time again. |