{"id":5461,"date":"2014-09-25T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2021-03-25T06:51:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T10:51:59","slug":"how-designers-design-their-own-email-newsletter-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/how-designers-design-their-own-email-newsletter-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Newsletter Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5499 size-full\" title=\"Email Newsletter Best Practices. How Designers Design Their Own Email Newsletter\" src=\"https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/How-Designers-Design-Their-Own-Email-Newsletter.png\" alt=\"Email Newsletter Best Practices. How Designers Design Their Own Email Newsletter\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/How-Designers-Design-Their-Own-Email-Newsletter.png 650w, https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/How-Designers-Design-Their-Own-Email-Newsletter-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>How Designers Design Their Own Email Newsletter<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Publishing an email newsletter is a great way to <a title=\"Email Marketing for Creative Freelancers. Yay or Nay?\" href=\"https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/email-marketing-for-creative-freelancers-yay-or-nay\">keep in touch<\/a>\u00a0with past, current and potential design clients. Below you can learn email newsletter best practices from fellow freelance creatives. Use the their layout as a starting point for your own newsletter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Look at the graphic below! It shows which content most freelancers\u00a0include in their newsletters, and also how they\u00a0order it.\u00a0Boxes with solid lines show content most freelance creative include in their newsletters.\u00a0Dashed lines\u00a0show somewhat less frequent content.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Email-Newsletter-Best-Practices-for-Freelance-Graphic-Designers-and-Web-Designers-2.0.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5462 size-full\" title=\"Email Newsletter Best Practices for Freelance Graphic Designers and Web Designers\" src=\"https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Email-Newsletter-Best-Practices-for-Freelance-Graphic-Designers-and-Web-Designers-2.0.png\" alt=\"Email Newsletter Best Practices for Freelance Graphic Designers and Web Designers\" width=\"380\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Email-Newsletter-Best-Practices-for-Freelance-Graphic-Designers-and-Web-Designers-2.0.png 380w, https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Email-Newsletter-Best-Practices-for-Freelance-Graphic-Designers-and-Web-Designers-2.0-86x300.png 86w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>But, of Course, You Can Do It Differently<\/h3>\n<p>If you want to differentiate yourself, you can use the above as a guide for how NOT to structure your own email newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two freelancers doing their newsletters differently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Visit Paul Jarvis' Website!\" href=\"http:\/\/pjrvs.com\/\">Paul Jarvis <\/a>is a freelance web designer.\u00a0His &#8220;Sunday Dispatch&#8221;\u00a0newsletter\u00a0often consists\u00a0of just one long text. Sometimes with a\u00a0short announcement added at the bottom.\u00a0Many times his only text is 1,000 words,\u00a0or\u00a0more. Subscribe\u00a0to his newsletter\u00a0<a title=\"Sign-Up Page for Paul Jarvis' Newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/pjrvs.com\/signup\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Visit Deidre Rienzo's About Page\" href=\"http:\/\/connectwithcopy.com\/about\/\">Deidre Rienzo<\/a>\u00a0is a freelance copywriter publishing\u00a0publishing\u00a0what she calls her\u00a0&#8220;un-newsletter.&#8221; Deidre just writes something short and cute \u2014 and sends it. Check out her\u00a0past newsletters <a title=\"Deidre's Past Newsletters \" href=\"http:\/\/connectwithcopy.com\/past-un-newsletters\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you ready to start, but\u00a0need ideas for\u00a0what to write about? Check out: <a title=\"Newsletter Ideas for Freelance Creatives\" href=\"https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/newsletter-ideas-for-freelance-creatives\">Newsletter Ideas for Freelance Creatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not convinced yet\u00a0if a newsletter is a good idea?\u00a0Read <a title=\"Top Two Reasons for Email Marketing for Creative Freelancers\" href=\"https:\/\/flauntmydesign.com\/email-marketing-for-creative-freelancers-yay-or-nay\"><span style=\"color: #ff9d00;\">Email Marketing for Creative Freelancers. Yay or Nay?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Designers Design Their Own Email Newsletter Publishing an email newsletter is a great way to keep in touch\u00a0with past, current and potential design clients. Below you can learn email newsletter best practices from fellow freelance creatives. Use the their layout as a starting point for your own newsletter. Look at the graphic below! 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