Recently, Jason Hirschhorn, a man with serious digital savvy, raised @2.25 million in seed funding to turn his popular email newsletter into a company. That’s right, he built and then pitched a successful business idea based on linking to great content other people created. The vehicle that drives those links (and essentially the business)? Email. Marketing.
Whether you’re actively ignoring email as a marketing channel (because you think it doesn’t work) or it’s just one of those things you “haven’t gotten around to”, we have a few suggestions. Change your mind and/or find the time. Quickly. It takes time to build lists and concoct the perfect email recipes, but it’s going to pay dividends well into the future, so the sooner you start, the better.
Think about it: we all use email. Most of us use it daily and some of us use it all day long. Email is at the core of our digital experiences. While it might seem like email is old and out of style, that’s only due to the rapid growth and popularity of social media. It’s understandable that the flair and panache of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are more intriguing than tired old email. But at the end of the day, you have to go with what works. And for many businesses, the simplicity of email marketing has become little more than a missed opportunity.
Hirschhorn, somebody who would know, summed email marketing up perfectly when he said: “It’s a great place to get in front of people who are interested in what you have to say. Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons – it’s the cockroach of the Internet.”
Embrace The Newsletter

If email isn’t going anywhere and everybody is using it, why aren’t you? It’s a question that deserves an honest answer. “It’s too hard,” “I don’t know how” and “it costs too much,” might have been legitimate answers a few years ago – but now they’re just excuses. The fact is there are tools and services that allow you to get an email newsletter up and running in no time; and if you really need help with strategy and set-up, we would be happy to help. After all, doesn’t remaining connected to potential customers who have asked you to send them information on topics they’re interested in sound like a good, long-term idea?