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Name For New Marketingprofs Newsletter?
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| Posted By: Val (Moderator) on 3/2/2007 2:03 PM (CST) |
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Hi guys! In April, we're planning to launch a revamped version of our e-newsletter Know-How News. You guys are TERRIFIC in the creative department. I'd love to hear your ideas for a new name/tagline. Here's a little background ...
Three years ago, KHN started out as a community-builder for this forum. You can see past issues here. Then last summer we repositioned it as a combination of community news + small business articles. We have 30K (free) subscribers to date.
This next relaunch is intended to strengthen it's usefulness for small business marketers. The publication will remain free. So we need a redesign and refresh to improve response rates -- with the ultimate objective of increasing ad sales. The current format is WAY too busy. Ads are not visible enough. And there's too much content for busy readers to wade through (we can see this in CTRs).
So we're going to test a drastically different approach. We're going to feature just one mini article in it's entirety (in the body of the email). In a very focused manner (150-350 words), it will cover a single marketing concept or resource we think small business marketers will want to know about. Often the ideas for these articles will come from KHE discussions. They'll also come from our seminars, our blog and our articles. There will likely be a graphic and just one ad.
Another big difference is frequency. We're going to shift from weekly to 3x per week: Mon, Wed, Fri. The idea is to bring info to readers in bite-sized chunks they can skim in a few seconds and then keep or delete rather than needing to spend significant time with one long newsletter. Here's a peek at how another publisher, Daily Candy, carries this off.
Advertisers will probably do weekly ad buys, sponsoring a couple issues in a row. They'll be happy about having greater visibility. And hopefully they'll receive more clicks, resulting in more bookings with us.
We need to position this new pub as distinctly different from our flagship publication, MarketingProfs Today (six years old). MPT mails on Tuesdays to nearly 250K readers. MPT is written for B2B and B2C marketers at all company sizes and industries and all experience levels. We have thousands of Fortune 500 subscribers, for example.
In contrast, the small business publication will be written for those who work for SMEs ... companies with less than $10 million in sales, small marketing teams and small marketing budgets. We will conduct a reader survey of the current KHN subscriber base in the next two weeks to collect more info, but we expect to find they are B2B and B2C and generally less experienced at marketing than some of our MPT readers (many are business owners learning on the job, rather than folks with lots of formal marketing training). I know them to be busy and eager to find guerrilla marketing tactics they can implement with one or two team members.
To eventually increase our ad revenue, we need to actively grow our subscriber list. So we'd like to see "small business" in the name (or smbiz or similar), rather than a name that's less immediately clear to newcomers, like Know-How News. We do plan to promote the new newsletter to the existing KHN subscriber base, and discontinue publishing KHN.
What else would you like to know? I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Val |
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