Without a good newsletter, you don’t own a list.

e-newsletter marketing exampleI’m all for social media. I use social media and am dependent on it for the reach and the level of engagement it enables.

I also have a website, and am dependent on it for how it presents my products and services to an interested audience.

Finally, I have an e-newsletter, which is as important to me as either my social media pages or my website.

But a lot of companies and freelancers online don’t have an e-newsletter. Among these, some have never had an e-newsletter and others had one once, but have let it go.

I think these companies are making a big mistake. Some think that their blog is now their new “e-newsletter”, so they have stopped publishing. Others think that social media can do everything an e-newsletter can do, and more.

They are all wrong.

Here are 3 reasons why, whatever else you do, you need an e-newsletter.

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