How to Put Your Newsletter on Auto Pilot

Carol Dunlop

Carol J. Dunlop is CCO at CSI Corporation, the company she founded twenty-five years ago with her husband Alvin. Carol is an Amazon #1 International Best-selling author for her book, UN-Market Your Business; 10 Ways for Savvy Entrepreneurs to Stand Out, Stop Struggling, and Start Profiting. Carol is known as “The Online WOW! Strategist.” She teaches entrepreneurs to convert marketing into money so they can find and perfect the marketing strategy they love to get more clients and live the life they want. Carol’s clients hail from cities across the U.S.A., the U.K., and Australia.

Carol is prompt, knowledgeable and easy to work with

Carol has been attending to Mom-Talent's website for several years. She is prompt, knowledgeable and easy to work with. She...

Barb Stengard
Owner
Mom-Talent, LLC

www.mom-talent.com

5.0

2016-10-31T16:18:27-04:00

Barb Stengard
Owner
Mom-Talent, LLC

www.mom-talent.com

Carol has been attending to Mom-Talent's website for several years. She is prompt, knowledgeable and easy to work with. She provides superior services at prices that are affordable.

https://csicorporation.com/testimonials/carol-is-prompt-knowledgeable-and-easy-to-work-with/

Thanks to CSI, I now have a web presence.

I like the one-on-one and the feed back that CSI gave me to get started. I had no idea as...

Bartina Sigman, Owner
American Elite Cleaning Services

5.0

2016-10-31T16:25:07-04:00

Bartina Sigman, Owner
American Elite Cleaning Services

I like the one-on-one and the feed back that CSI gave me to get started. I had no idea as to how to begin my web page project. Thanks to CSI, I now have a web presence.

https://csicorporation.com/testimonials/thanks-to-csi-i-now-have-a-web-presence/

Carol is a beast at bringing my vision to life

Finding the right person to support my dream projects hasn't always been easy. That is -- until I connected with...

Wendy Y. Bailey - Master Business Coach, CEC, C.NLP
Income Acceleration Mentor at Business Beyond Limits

playbiggernow2016.com

5.0

2016-10-31T14:21:14-04:00

Wendy Y. Bailey - Master Business Coach, CEC, C.NLP
Income Acceleration Mentor at Business Beyond Limits

playbiggernow2016.com

Finding the right person to support my dream projects hasn't always been easy. That is -- until I connected with the Online WOW! Strategist, Carol Dunlop. Carol is knowledgeable about her craft and truthful about what can be accomplished within proposed time frames. She is a beast at bringing my vision to life while setting up the right tools to ensure my online success. The project Carol just completed for my live event is absolutely AWESOME! I look forward to our next project. It's because I know without a doubt that NO ONE can translate my vision into reality like Carol. She is truly my Online WOW! Strategist. I highly recommend Carol not just as a web designer but as a consummate professional with the ability to support you in achieving all of your online goals.

https://csicorporation.com/testimonials/wendy-y-bailey/

Carol and Alvin went above and beyond

I hired Carol Dunlop to design my website because I had no idea about what was needed. Carol really listened...

Betty Humphrey Fowler
Feng Shui Interior Re-Design Consultant
Energized Spaces

https://www.energizedspaces.com/

5.0

2016-10-31T14:24:55-04:00

Betty Humphrey Fowler
Feng Shui Interior Re-Design Consultant
Energized Spaces

https://www.energizedspaces.com/

I hired Carol Dunlop to design my website because I had no idea about what was needed. Carol really listened to and answered every question I had. She was patient and gave me suggestions that I would never have considered. Carol is truly an expert in the website design and social media arenas. I am also grateful to both Carol and Alvin for going above and beyond to repair my website when it was hacked while under Go Daddy's hosting. Go Daddy left me out in the cold but they stepped in, found how deep the hack was and brought my site back as good as new with new protocols in place. Needless to say, I dropped Go Daddy and now use CSI Corp for my website hosting. I highly recommend hiring CSI Corporation for any website or online business concerns you have. They deliver on their promises!

https://csicorporation.com/testimonials/betty-humphrey-fowler/

Carol was also able to answer all of my questions

Working with Carol Dunlop of CSI Corporation for the past few months has introduced me to new social media platforms....

Tracey West, CEO
Tracey West Irresistible Pound Cakes
www.irresistiblepoundcakes.com
www.facebook.com/irresistiblepc
www.twitter.com/irresistiblepc
Orders: (678) 613-3973
irresistiblepoundcakes.com/

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2016-10-31T14:26:48-04:00

Tracey West, CEO
Tracey West Irresistible Pound Cakes
www.irresistiblepoundcakes.com
www.facebook.com/irresistiblepc
www.twitter.com/irresistiblepc
Orders: (678) 613-3973
irresistiblepoundcakes.com/

Working with Carol Dunlop of CSI Corporation for the past few months has introduced me to new social media platforms. I was very familiar with Facebook and Twitter but wasn't using Pinterest and had recently switched to using Mailchimp to send newsletters. Carol was able to setup Pinterest and Mailchimp and merged them with all of my social media platforms making them easier to manage. She was also able to answer all of my questions even those dealing with my website and made recommendations for improvements. Thanks Carol for all of your hard work.

https://csicorporation.com/testimonials/tracey-west/

How to Put Your Newsletter on Auto Pilot

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Time is money, when it comes to creating your newsletter. It can be extremely time consuming, depending on how long it takes you to put everything together. I’m all about saving time, so when I began putting together this Biz News You Can Use series, I knew that I would have to create some timesaving measures somewhere without sacrificing quality of the information. If only there were a way to magically create my newsletter AND get it out to my subscribers.

Hold on a sec… I’ve got just the ticket. You can roll your blog articles into your newsletter and VOILA! instant content generation.

Relax, it’s pretty simple and you only need a couple things:

Your Blog articles
MailChimp account

Now you can publish your blogs as you normally do and have the newsletter sent out to your subscribers on a regular basis without even thinking about it.

Here’s how you do it.

Create and post your blog articles
Set up an RSS to Email campaign in MailChimp
Choose how often to send your newsletter
Choose one of the RSS templates
Customize to your liking
Hit the Send button

The way the service works, it will only send out a newsletter when you have new content or posts. So you can look at this as a reminder to create more great content so that your subscribers always have something to look forward to reading.

Customization

Of course, if you’re like me, you don’t work well with out-of-the-box solutions, so you might want to customize your newsletter a bit. During the setup, instead of choosing an RSS template, choose one of the other pre-designed or naked templates. Create your newsletter just as you would if it weren’t an RSS email, meaning take advantage of:

Copyblocks
Space for ads or coupons
Adding in static, ever-green content

Then use the MailChimp RSS Merge tags to place your RSS feed anywhere in the template. This way, you can pause (stop to edit) the newletter’s sending and change anything before the next issue goes out. Leave the RSS feed intact. Simply re-start the newsletter again when you’re finished editing.

RSS Feed Ideas

Create a monthly sales newsletter then publish automatically with your store specials
Showcase one of your Pinterest boards with MailChimp’s Pinterest templates.
Send out a monthly update in your newsletter of a particular category instead of everything.

These are just a few examples of how you can make it easier on yourself to get your content into the hands of your readers.

Ready to put your newsletter on autopilot but are unsure of what you need to do? Contact me for a Social Media Marketing Analysis so we can discuss your goals and how to accomplish them.

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