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This sounds like a great plan, @leigh-kristensen!

That's an awesome goal, @mary-roth — good luck to you!!!

I would make the regular newsletter one of the launch newsletters, or skip it. I wouldn't send 4 emails in a week to the same list unless they were SUPER “hot” (aka, really likely to want more information about this product so they can buy it).

Like during a Starship launch Tara might send a few emails a week to the Early Boarding list because…[Read more]

Hi @elizabeth-floyd!

The answer to most of your questions is to do what your customers most want! I always recommend sending a newsletter at LEAST once a month, so people don't forget who you are. More than once a month depends on how much information you have to share, how often you're updating your shop, and how much your customers really want…[Read more]

@elizabeth-floyd

My pleasure 🙂 I do have a blog which I use when I have something to say like a new product or a big topic I've researched. I use my newsletters to be more informal and chatty with my core folks on my newsletter lists. I tell them behind the scenes things, details about the how and the why a particular product came about,…[Read more]

. how often do you send them out?
I try for weekly but often don't manage it, and there's usually at least 2-3 during the 8-day monthly Floating Gallery, though often a week apart.

. what type of specific action requests do you make in them?
I try to ask people to go to the gallery, my shop, etc, and preferably with a specific thing (or small…[Read more]

@shelley-husband Thank you!

So, if I understand what you shared, you do not have a blog, but instead your email lists serve in the same way a blog would with project updates? Also you have rotating themes which help you decide what you will be writing about. That is a really good idea.

. what type of specific action requests do you make in…[Read more]

how often do you send them out? – weekly to my main list and collection list, fortnightly to my new project update
. what type of specific action requests do you make in them? reply to a question, purchase a product, link to a blog post, affiliate link
. how many specific lists do you have? 3 – main newsletter, a collection specific one and a new…[Read more]

thank you @grace-shalom-hopkins for your input and experience.

I will also check out the blog While She Naps!

Liz

. how often do you send them out? I send mine out once a month.
. what type of specific action requests do you make in them? In the newsletter I have a welcome blurb, one or two pieces of highlighted news and links to my videos of the month. So typically it's a sales item in the blurb and then watch my videos.
. how many specific lists do you…[Read more]

Thank you so much for all of your help!! I learned how unprepared I was to make this sale (which will change in the future), but I came up with a homemade card and thank you note with a coupon code for the next purchase, paper flowers, and a detachable tag with care and fiber information. I'm off to order more branded items now because I know I'm…[Read more]

I won't be able to attend the weekly chats often, Wednesdays always seem to be full and require me to be out of the house when the chats meet.

Whatcha workin on?
Completing paintings and getting up to date with the business/admin work I am behind on.

What’s going well?
I am implementing an editorial calendar for my blog and Instagram. I went t…[Read more]

When I did physical I added my card, a handwritten note, any care or usage or content info.

I feel like there are two ideal routes.

Beautiful and mildly warm. Great branding and packaging. This is beautiful and gives you a high class feel.

The other is like a package from a dear friend. Handwritten, kind of homemade looking, extremely sweet.…[Read more]

For July I pretty much just cruised along making bags. I met my productivity target, but not my profit target.

Over the last six months I've learnt that I can push myself much harder. I'm not as stressed and mentally fragile as I was when I left work four years ago. Also, if I don't meet a target, nobody is going to be bothered except me. I…[Read more]

Thanks @tabitha-dukes, I'll check them out 🙂

I buy mine from Mountainstreetarts on Etsy Link

congrats @karen-robinson

And good luck with the house prospects @riin-gill