Lots of local tourism groups and chambers of commerce send out excellent email blasts to their members. If you send an email newsletter, I’ll bet you routinely talk to people who didn’t know about it. It’s like the best kept secret.
Did you know you could be multiplying your reach with social tools?
You can use the same content to reach out in multiple ways, in multiple places. I realize you don’t have time to do more work. So, we’re going to do this the absolutely easiest way. Posterous. Add post@posterous.com as a subscriber to your email list. Then Posterous will automatically create a new post from each email you send out.
Posterous includes a wonderful Autopost feature that will then send the post to your regular blog, the post and photos to Facebook, the headline and link to Twitter, and the photos to Flickr. Yes, you do have to go in and set those up, but you only have to do it once. Then it works on automatic pilot.
So from your existing effort, you can multiply that to reach many more people. The Posterous site becomes a new public face for you. Every email is saved there. The search engines are able to crawl through that content, all those events, adding to your online presence. The autoposts to Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr put you in front of your residents and visitors where they spend the most time online. And the autopost to your regular blog means it’s all backed up on your own site.
Do this, and your email blast won’t be the best kept secret in town any more.
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Going to give this a shot. Thanks for sharing, Becky!
Your website/blog is filled with great stuff. I like both posterous, and amplify.com. You can truly re-broadcast your original email with very little effort.
Lance, thanks for the link to Amplify.com. Looks like an interesting curation tool.