Print Newsletter Vs. Online

[Dien Rice]

Hi Millard,

Off the top of my head, I can only think of one printed physical paid-subscription newsletter I am aware of... That's the Doberman Dan Letter, about marketing and copywriting, by Doberman Dan...

It's paper and ink, and sent through the mail. Not cheap though... I just looked through one of his promotions, and it's $199 per month (with some other bonuses included)...

(I'm not a subscriber. But I did buy a big box of his printed newsletters once, years ago...)

I also once did a stint working for a subsidiary of The Agora. Agora consider themselves to be the world's largest newsletter publisher... I don't know the exact number of paid-subscription monthly newsletters published by all their subsidiaries, but it would definitely be well over 100 (maybe even over 200)...

However, all of their newsletters nowadays (to my knowledge) are electronic. You subscribe, and it's a kind of "membership website" type of thing, where your password gets you into the newsletters you've subscribed to...

You can read them online, or download them as PDF files...

(Each Agora subsidiary is independent of each other... They all compete with each other.)

Best wishes,

Dien

Originally Posted by Millard Grubb

I am sure we've got tons of files on our computers that we just don't want to part with. I've got two separate hard drives with information I have kept along with the hard drive on my computer.

However, there are only three newsletters I have kept over the years...

They are:

The Bill Myers Letter

Business Breakthroughs by Jay Abraham

The Antin Bros. Newsletter

In the fast paced world of today, would it make sense to create a newsletter for local businesses that would be geared to help them build their customer base as well as increase sales in a printed format?

I suppose I could go to a big library and look in the directory of newsletters to see what's working now, but figured I would see what others here have experienced.