Some people worry that they are pesting people with their newsletters. They don’t want to send out too many because people will get annoyed.
If you are in danger of “pestering” your readers, you shouldn’t send a newsletter monthly.
You shouldn’t even send it quarterly…or annually.
You should send it never.
Fears of “pestering” come down to an anachronistic way of looking at the relationship with your clients and prospects.
My caller was doing business the old way. In the past, marketers interrupted people with their message.
They said “buy my stuff,” and “hire me today”.
And … this is the worst sin of all … “I’m really great, you know.”
“Me, me, me!”
Sure….that’s pestering – like the child who can’t pass a Baskin-Robbins without tugging on his hapless parent’s arm.
That kind of newsletter deserves to go straight in the trash.
But that’s not the best way to communicate with your prospects and customers.
Instead, your aim with your newsletter is to make your prospects’ and customers’ lives better.
To help them do their jobs better, to make their days easier.
That’s why instead of putting out a newsletter that’s overflowing with self-promotion, you publish something that’s packed with useful
information.
Content that has value.
If you do that, people will start reading your newsletter. They’ll even start looking forward to it.
Not only do you avoid pestering your readers, but you become in their minds a trusted advisor.
And
they’re much more likely to do business with a trusted advisor … who is thinking of their needs … than someone who interested only in
themselves.
