How often are you sending news letters?

[Scott S.]

How often are you sending your customers news letters?

 

[Johnny]

Never. If they want me, they know how to reach me.

 

[jcooper]

None.

 

[ruff]

Never.
And none ........whatsoever.
Hope that unifies and clarifies the two previous responses

 

[hogjowl]

I only send out ServiceMonster Fill My Schedule cards, but have been thinking about not sending out so many of them and interspacing a newsletter every other month instead.

But, I don't tend to think about anything long, so I keep letting it slide.

 

[Desk Jockey]

 

[D Luke]

Monthly. Thinking about switching to quarterly.

 

[Charlie Lyman]

Where do you guys get your newsletters?

 

[D Luke]

Piranha. Don't use a whole lot else of their other stuff but the newsletters are fantastic. Cheapest I've found, too.

 

[Scott S.]

Where do you guys get your newsletters?

Darcie makes ours. Based on whats new, season, events, schedule etc.

 

[PrimaDonna]

Where do you guys get your newsletters?

We used to...I should get back to doing that. I used Steve Marsh's newsletter. Really liked it. Had the "voice" of owner operator and we were able to add our own blurb each month, photos and specials. We bought just the newsletter, I'm not sure if he still sells that independently or if you have to purchase it as part of a package now. We bought it about 10 years ago. Came on a CD that you could customize parts of the newsletter. You can send to your local printer or we ended up using an online printer to get them done. Came glossy and looked really sharp.

http://www.becompetitionfree.com/index.php

Jon Don has a good one too.

http://www.jondon.com/how-to/newsletter-marketing.html

 

[mirf]

Never

 

[darcie smith]

Darcie makes ours. Based on whats new, season, events, schedule etc.

Windows 10 just ate the one I was almost done with. It's gone. Disappeared. I searched the entire C drive and OneDrive and Publisher shows a location for the file in recent documents that no longer exists. I am not amused. Only good news is I had printed a rough draft for Scott to look at, so as long as it's still in his backpack, I won't have to rewrite everything.

 

[Desk Jockey]

It has to be there somewhere. Could it have saved it to the clipboard in Publisher?

Sounds amusing. But I think everything is funny...until it happens to me. ; )

 

[darcie smith]

Could it have saved it to the clipboard in Publisher?

Nope

 

[Desk Jockey]

Can you describe what happened?

Network /

OR
C/users /your name

 

[darcie smith]

Can you describe what happened?

Network /

OR
C/users /your name

A lot of things happened because I just got a new computer, so I have been transferring files from the old laptop to the new over our home network. First, I transferred everything to what I thought was C:/This Computer/Documents. Then when I went to open a file, it showed everything in OneDrive/Documents and it said my OneDrive was almost full. So I highlighted all the folders and dragged them to again what I thought was C:/This Computer/Documents.
I believe this is when I started the newsletter and saved it to what I thought was C:/This Computer/Documents/C&S. When I went to file explorer to open a scrapbooking file that should have been in C:/This Computer/Documents/Scrapbooking, the entire path C:/This Computer/Documents was blank! So wtf. I looked in Photoshop's recent file and it showed the file I was looking for under C:/Users/Darci/OneDrive/Documents/Scrapbooking.
When I set up my computer, it never asked me to set up users, and I don't even know who Darci is because if I had set it up, it would have either been Darcie or darciedeann. AND I MOVED EVERYTHING OUT OF ONEDRIVE.
And so again, I highlighted everything and moved it back to C:/This Computer/Documents.
There is absolutely nothing left in the C:/Users/Darci path, and everything appeared to be where I wanted it. And then last night I went to open the newsletter and it was gone. Publisher showed the above photo in recent. And two of my folders in the scrapbooking folder are gone. Nowhere.

 

[Mikey P]

None

FMS (too often for repeats, much like Marty)
And two mass emails a year.

 

[Desk Jockey]

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A lot of things happened because I just got a new computer, so I have been transferring files from the old laptop to the new over our home network. First, I transferred everything to what I thought was C:/This Computer/Documents. Then when I went to open a file, it showed everything in OneDrive/Documents and it said my OneDrive was almost full. So I highlighted all the folders and dragged them to again what I thought was C:/This Computer/Documents.
I believe this is when I started the newsletter and saved it to what I thought was C:/This Computer/Documents/C&S. When I went to file explorer to open a scrapbooking file that should have been in C:/This Computer/Documents/Scrapbooking, the entire path C:/This Computer/Documents was blank! So wtf. I looked in Photoshop's recent file and it showed the file I was looking for under C:/Users/Darci/OneDrive/Documents/Scrapbooking.
When I set up my computer, it never asked me to set up users, and I don't even know who Darci is because if I had set it up, it would have either been Darcie or darciedeann. AND I MOVED EVERYTHING OUT OF ONEDRIVE.
And so again, I highlighted everything and moved it back to C:/This Computer/Documents.
There is absolutely nothing left in the C:/Users/Darci path, and everything appeared to be where I wanted it. And then last night I went to open the newsletter and it was gone. Publisher showed the above photo in recent. And two of my folders in the scrapbooking folder are gone. Nowhere.

Google that Darcy, I pulled up where it has happened to many people. Most go ballistic but they re-post they found the files in a folder. It sounds like a common problem.

 

[Scott O]

I send 2 a year, April and October. Will be sending post cards March, July, August and September. Send Thanksgiving card early November. Also send SM fms cards. Plan on sending eddm cards this year too. If I did restoration I'd send a monthly newsletter.

 

[Scott S.]

I send 2 a year, April and October. Will be sending post cards March, July, August and September. Send Thanksgiving card early November. Also send SM fms cards. Plan on sending eddm cards this year too. If I did restoration I'd send a monthly newsletter.

how much does service monster cost?

 

[Scott O]

Think it's 1.35 per card. They more than pay for themselves

 

[Nate The Great]

Can you describe what happened?

Network /

OR
C/users /your name

It was there, now it's not...........Durrrrr............

And no, we don't send out news letters... But thank you cards after work has been performed.... Since the early 1990's......

 

[Scott S.]

How many of you use the piranha marketing news letter?