Some ideas for ebid - no 6 - revamp the newsletter

[booksntings]

A link to the online version of the newsletter is being posted in the forums now.

http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthrea...92#post1596992

has been for a few months now.

[burgyeb]

Thought the March Newsletter was very informative. Gave updates on Apple and Android Ap's. Addressed various seller level areas, site improvements, and site events and accomplishments. Quite a lot of ground covered. Kudos to G, M, and team.

[Gill]

Taken from the eBid vacancies forum Newsletter Editor by Gazza the newsletter emails are sent on the 20th of each month.

It is now 26th March and I still haven't received mine - 6 days to do a mass emailing when all it takes is a few clicks. So, is it possible that eBid are going to stop the newsletter emails? After all, you can now see it online as posted by Mark on a monthly basis - see post #21 for the link to the March newsletter.

[bluebedouin]

..... 6 days to do a mass emailing when all it takes is a few clicks. ....

Not quite that simple.Have a look at Brunwulf's post here.

[Gill]

Not quite that simple.Have a look at Brunwulf's post here.

Okay, I've looked at and read through. According to that, ALL members receive the newsletter but only admin can state how many members opted to receive the newsletter by email.

Ah, jimbo, I remember him

At those costs I can only see that my previous statement applies blue. No more emailed newsletters is the best way to go. But where has the email budget gone? API?

[Gill]

My March newsletter has just arrived. LOL

I maybe wrong but I think this so called newsletter is a 'poster' for want of a better word due to the way it's received. It's copied and pasted onto an email rather than being an email, as all content is on the left of the screen.

I'm going to give this some thought although I still don't believe the members' database needs splitting into groups.

[TiasTreasures]

A link to the online version of the newsletter is being posted in the forums now.

http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthrea...92#post1596992

has been for a few months now.

Did they skip a few months? I did check the forum in December and January, and neither was listed there so I hadn't looked again. Now March 2014 is there. Of course if this is the only place the newsletter is available now this whole discussion may be pointless.

[Juliebabe25]

Just as an aside....

It actually costs a lot of money to send millions of emails.
It is not free.
Your local ISP will not allow it.
So you have to pay a mass mailing email company.
And even they probably cant do a million emails in one day.

[TheTomsBoutique]

I had actually never looked at the newsletter before, and now that I have, I can agree with a revamping. There is a lot of good information in it, but it's incredibly boring to look at...maybe adding some colors or something would give it some extra "pop" that would make it stand out.

I do agree that splitting it into four different newsletters is pretty tedious, time-consuming, and pointless overall, but I think making the existing one a little more attractive might suck people in and make them want to read it more.