We all know that newsletters help create opportunity for your agency. They keep you in the client’s mind, display your industry knowledge and show that you are invested in keeping your clients educated and informed. Unfortunately, if you choose the wrong articles for your newsletter, you risk not just a deleted email or unread newsletter, but being seen as a pest and a spammer by your client.
Who is Reading Your Newsletter?
In order to choose the right articles for your newsletter, you need to know who is reading it. Think about it–if you are a 50-year-old male heading toward retirement, you wouldn’t want to read an article about how women graduating from college can ace their first job interview, would you? Your clients are no different. They want content that is pertinent to their lives, or where they want their lives to be.
Look at your audience. How much do you know about them? Are they from one general age group or gender? Or is there a wide variety of people, ages and life stages accounted for? Make sure you have the appropriate mix of articles to appeal to each of your subscriber groups.
What Do You Want Your Newsletter to Accomplish?
What is the end goal you’d like to achieve from the distribution of your newsletter? Do you want to sell your existing clients new products? Do you want your clients to recommend you to their friends to buy products similar to the ones they bought?
If your goal is to sell your life insurance clients an annuity, don’t fill your newsletter with life insurance articles. Instead, put one or two life pieces in the newsletter and pick annuity and retirement information for the rest. If you want to be known as the life insurance guru in your town, then pick life insurance articles that mix practical, widely known information for much of the newsletter and include some more complex life insurance information and strategies for the other articles. If you’d rather focus on selling multiple products to families, choose articles that deal with the concerns of new parents and homeowners.
