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Good idea to complie articles from around the world and use it as your newsletter?

by fated82
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Hi all,

I was wondering if it is a good idea to compile 4 - 6 articles around my niche and use them as my basis for a newsletter? The purpose of the newsletter is to keep in touch with my prospect. I will only be emailing them once every 2 weeks or so.
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  • Profile picture of the author Moriarty
    You can do that, only make sure that they really are relevant and interesting. If you have six articles, why not just use them sparingly, post them on twitter or facebook to encourage engagement there too?

    It all brings targeted traffic to your site. Which is, after all, what you want.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ken Durham
    Originally Posted by fated82 View Post

    Hi all,

    I was wondering if it is a good idea to compile 4 - 6 articles around my niche and use them as my basis for a newsletter? The purpose of the newsletter is to keep in touch with my prospect. I will only be emailing them once every 2 weeks or so.

    If you were the client, what would you like to see? Take this question and ask it of your friends and family... then perhaps the bar down the road.
    They will openly give you their unbiased opinion.... where ours might be a bit biased... Where is your better answer?
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  • Profile picture of the author sanhal
    Originally Posted by fated82 View Post

    Hi all,

    I was wondering if it is a good idea to compile 4 - 6 articles around my niche and use them as my basis for a newsletter? The purpose of the newsletter is to keep in touch with my prospect. I will only be emailing them once every 2 weeks or so.
    If you are intending to use other people's articles as your post title seems to suggest make sure you give them credit for the articles if you include them in your newsletter.

    I often take information and ideas from other sites and other people's newsletters that I have signed up for in my niche and use it in my newsletter.

    For most niches I think it's best to keep the newsletter short. An article may be too long. Personally I have not got the time or inclination to read long email newsletters.

    A way round this is to create an online page for it and include an short intro to it in your newsletter and have a "Read More" link for them to click through to the page.

    It also pays to keep in contact with them regularly. If you start them two weekly then stick to the same schedule so they will learn to expect it.

    Good luck with that.

    Sandy
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    • Profile picture of the author Ken Durham
      Originally Posted by sanhal View Post

      If you are intending to use other people's articles as your post title seems to suggest make sure you give them credit for the articles if you include them in your newsletter.

      I often take information and ideas from other sites and other people's newsletters that I have signed up for in my niche and use it in my newsletter.

      Good luck with that.

      Sandy
      Good ideas are good ideas, no matter where they came from.
      Give credit where credit is due and I believe the Google Gods will look favorably upon you. FACT: GOOD out bound links can help you in serps...
      Be honest and be sincere... it IS that easy. Give a shit about your customers and they will give a shit about you.
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    • Profile picture of the author neilshearing
      I would prefer to read articles written by you, if you're an expert in the niche and can help me.

      However, if you do a great job "curating" content and can truly pick quality articles from around the world, and they would help me, that would probably work too... although, I'd be wondering why you were knowledgeable enough to curate well, but not write and send your own articles.

      In science, people who write "review" articles, are usually experts in the areas they're reviewing and also publish their own studies in those areas...
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by sanhal View Post

      If you are intending to use other people's articles as your post title seems to suggest make sure you give them credit for the articles if you include them in your newsletter.
      And note - of course - that "giving them credit" (or even links) does not exempt you from the laws of copyright: naturally you need the author's permission, as well, if you're taking and using other people's articles. (If you take and use them in their entirety from an article directory, within the directory's terms of service, then of course you have the author's permission, because that's what they're there for.).

      Originally Posted by sanhal View Post

      I often take information and ideas from other sites and other people's newsletters that I have signed up for in my niche and use it in my newsletter.
      Many of us know you well enough to know that you wouldn't steal content from "other sites", Sandy.

      But let's just stress again, for the benefit of anyone who might misunderstand you, that you must have permission to take people's articles from their websites.

      Otherwise of course you're breaching their copyright (not to mention risking potentially losing your domain registration, website, autoresponder account, and so on, if someone complains that you've stolen their content).
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