Newsletters

[David Smith]

Does your forum have newsletters? Do you use them at all? Well in my old forum, I had newsletters because it tells people what is happening with the forum and what is improving. It helps to bring new members in because it can show that your changing and willing to adapt to changing things in the forum and bettering yourself. Some owners don't do it and just use the news section in the forum as it could be easier rather spending a week on a newsletter.

 

[ahmedo241]

It better to use news update section in your forum or website than newsletter because most people don't read mails

 

[BrolySSJ]

Does your forum have newsletters? Do you use them at all? Well in my old forum, I had newsletters because it tells people what is happening with the forum and what is improving. It helps to bring new members in because it can show that your changing and willing to adapt to changing things in the forum and bettering yourself. Some owners don't do it and just use the news section in the forum as it could be easier rather spending a week on a newsletter.

I think that a newsletter can be a good way in order to ensure that all of the members are up to date on the news of the forum however in order to make it interesting there has to be a lot of developments.

 

[Busybee]

The newsletter can be a great way to interact with our members. And to inform them about the latest updates, activities, competitions, or events on the site. It also acts as a discussion topic thereby increasing the site connective ness and engagement

 

[BrolySSJ]

The newsletter can be a great way to interact with our members. And to inform them about the latest updates, activities, competitions, or events on the site. It also acts as a discussion topic thereby increasing the site connective ness and engagement

It can be very good and since you have their email address for all of the members that you can contact them directly in that way and in so doing get more of a response as well.

 

[opaline]

It better to use news update section in your forum or website than newsletter because most people don't read mails

I totally agree with this, receiving a lot of emails can be annoying at times and they might unsubscribe too so it would be best if there's going to be a news update section in the forum itself. Or might as well, you can do both so members have options, right? Whichever works for them.

 

[BrolySSJ]

I totally agree with this, receiving a lot of emails can be annoying at times and they might unsubscribe too so it would be best if there's going to be a news update section in the forum itself. Or might as well, you can do both so members have options, right? Whichever works for them.

I think that giving them teh choice of how often they want to be informed is the best way to go because if they are in control of what communication that they are getting them they are unlikely to get annoyed.

 

[Kane]

I don't send newsletters on my forums. I have tried sending newsletters to my blog subscribers but the conversion was low, so I never tried for my forums. However, if you have a lot of members and a lot of new content updating every now and then, sending newsletters woulr be highly beneficial

 

[Grant]

Some of my sites and forums have newslettes, but not most of them. I feel it best to have a newsletter is when your site/forum posts a lot of info, or has a ton of users with differing hobbies. Also I think a newsletter for a site/forum combo makes sense, but for a forum itself, I don't know if it's really needed.