My first serious attempt at a website included a weekly newsletter that I would send out of Outlook Express (!) with a maximum of 50 people at a time. It was just a weekly wrap of interesting links and design thoughts around the Internet – and I had loads of fun doing it.
Since then, I’ve been fascinated with email as a business building tool. Not really just email marketing, because I feel like there’s ways of doing email to groups that doesn’t really come under ‘marketing’ – but for all intents and purposes the banner ’email marketing’ works.
I’m also a big fan of email newsletters! Like a step back to when the Google of the day was Alta Vista, and directories like DMOZ were super useful – email as a business has that personal touch. Where it can be a one on one communication with thousands of people at a time.
Here’s a list of email businesses I can find (updated periodically):
News Related Newsletters
- Next Draft (Daily, USA)
https://nextdraft.com/
Each morning I visit about 75 news sites, and from that swirling nightmare of information quicksand, I pluck the top ten most fascinating items of the day, which I deliver with a fast, pithy wit that will make your computer device vibrate with delight. No bots. No computer algorithms. - Morning Brew (Daily, USA)
https://www.morningbrew.com/
A daily email newsletter covering the latest news from Wall St. to Silicon Valley - The Skimm (Daily, USA)
https://www.theskimm.com/
The Skimm is a daily newsletter of news stories intended to be simple and easy to read.