Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject: Insurance Community Newsletter
The idea is being kicked around about developing an Insurance Community Newsletter.
What do you think?
What information should the newsletter contain?
How do we promote our newsletter?
Who gets the newsletter?
How often should we provide the newsletter - weekly, monthly, quarterly?
Would you be willing to provide articles for the newsletter?
What do you think? great idea maze
How often should we provide the newsletter - weekly, monthly, quarterly
Would you be willing to provide articles for the newsletter? yep _________________ Have you been helped by a poster? Do you want to show your appreciation? YOU CAN !! Just simply click on the donate button and send them some coin!
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:02 am Post subject: Newsletters Are Most Welcome!!!
Hi everyone,
I have already posted some articles at the guide section (..awaiting your valuable comments).
Now, i'd be glad to contribute towards ournewslettersas well!
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What information should the newsletter contain?
I've seen across many websites, these newsletters are an important tool to promote their important features that are introduced from time to time. The only ever changing thing that we have at this forum-based site are the valuable discussion threads >>>which would often highlight a financial hazard of our modern times. Apart from the discussion-threads, we might as well promote the newly introduced articles ( at the guide) through these newsletters.
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How do we promote our newsletter?
Well, promoting these newsletters could not be easier than be emailed.
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Who gets the newsletter?
Only the registered members (let us keep it like that for the time without being too restrictive in terms of their contributions, since our soul purpose is to spread the forum-awareness)
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How often should we provide the newsletter - weekly, monthly, quarterly?
I'd agree withLoriat this one..
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Would you be willing to provide articles for the newsletter?
In my opinion, we should accept articles from our Moderators, Senior members as well as the Full members (Well, ofcrs..I'd let the final decision come from the moderators& the site admin at this).
But, one thing I'd like to remind to all forum-participants is that- this has to be a consistent & qualitative effort from all quarters in order to make it successful!
The idea is being kicked around about developing an Insurance Community Newsletter.
I vote for it We should now try to promote the site to get more contributors /visitors, the Newsletter is a great idea.
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How do we promote our newsletter?
How about submitting it at different newsletter submission sites?
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Would you be willing to provide articles for the newsletter?
More than eager, I too have contributed to the guide section of this site. If lakemen wish me to contribute to the newsletter I'll be more than glad to oblige.
Hope Lakemen will soon drop a line to this thread.
Ok guys, I am here now. Yeah, I am mooting this idea of a community newsletter along with InsuranceMaze.
I really appreciate the response it has got till now (expecting more) from the community members. Maze is helping me in finalizing the design of the newsletter along with other things. I think some of Maze's questions are answered.
1. We will do it every 15 days.
2. All community members get a copy and they can then refer it to their friends as well.
3. Many of you have accepted to contribute to the newsletter content here and I have got some more PMs on this too. That helps!
I would like the community to,
1. Suggest some more ways to promote the newsletter.
2. Tell us what more should the newsletter contain apart from articles and forum discussions.
Great idea Lakemen and InsuranceMaze. Count me in too!
The newsletter can contain some of the features that comes with the site, like, insurance calculators, article archive, expert guides. We can even highlight the contests - AmPmMarathon and the new Referral Contest.
But, one thing I'd like to remind to all forum-participants is that- this has to be a consistent & qualitative effort from all quarters in order to make it successful!
I couldn't agree with you more ArindamSenIndies.
Thanks Juanita, Evan and Lori for agreeing to contribute to the newsletter.
It might be a good idea to include a "Member Highlights" section where your articles appear.
What do you think?
I personally think that we should use this newsletter to expand the community. All present members should receive it, but I also think that we should develop a mailing list of non-members.
We need more insurance professionals who can give advice on areas of insurance other than auto insurance.
I think there is already enough information on auto insurance and auto accidents here in the threads. Of the 20,000 plus posts, probably 18,000 of them are on this subject.
We need to be known around the search engine community as the premier insurance forum for all types of insurance, not just auto.
Please take a look at some sample newsletters. We need to know what you really think.
Do they contain the right kinds of information?
Are there too many graphics?
Are there too many links?
Which one do you like best?
If you don't like any of them, that's OK. The "Dyson" vacuum cleaner guy tried some 5,000 times before he came up with the right one.
Do you have examples of a newsletter?
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Maze, I've not been getting prompts (emails) on this thread....all kinds of wacky crap going on I can't edit my own posts...blah blah....anyway I'm going to look at some of them now...also what types of information are you going to want? and hopefully you will be providing a good time line/deadline... _________________ Have you been helped by a poster? Do you want to show your appreciation? YOU CAN !! Just simply click on the donate button and send them some coin!
I looked at them Maze, nice layouts...then it's kind of a recap like thing? with links to the posts? _________________ Have you been helped by a poster? Do you want to show your appreciation? YOU CAN !! Just simply click on the donate button and send them some coin!
What do you think about a "Member Spotlight" section where we will feature some registered member from the community, a brief bio on that member, and a featured article by the member?
The plan is to publish the newsletter every 10-15 days, with the first edition coming out sometime in the first week of April.
Would you mind if you were the featured member in the first edition?
If you agree, we would need your article by the end of March.
All of this has to be coordinated with Lakemen, of course.
I think it would be OK if you actually wrote your newsletter article as a Post in the Claims Forum and Lakemen could get it from there. That way we could get a "double" benefit from the article.
What do you think about a "Member Spotlight" section where we will feature some registered member from the community, a brief bio on that member, and a featured article by the member?
I think that is a great
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The plan is to publish the newsletter every 10-15 days, with the first edition coming out sometime in the first week of April
WOW! that's fast, and frequent...would you then be requiring/needing a new article every time?
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Would you mind if you were the featured member in the first edition?
HOLY MOLY! Ok, for the good of the community ...but I guess I'm not 100% on what you want ?
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If you agree, we would need your article by the end of March.
About what though?
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I think it would be OK if you actually wrote your newsletter article as a Post in the Claims Forum and Lakemen could get it from there. That way we could get a "double" benefit from the article.
Need some help in what you are wanting... _________________ Have you been helped by a poster? Do you want to show your appreciation? YOU CAN !! Just simply click on the donate button and send them some coin!
WOW! that's fast, and frequent...would you then be requiring/needing a new article every time?
OK, how often do you think we should publish the newsletter?
Yes, we would want to publish "fresh" information, but we are only talking about a couple of paragraphs. Space is limited.
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HOLY MOLY! Ok, for the good of the community ...but I guess I'm not 100% on what you want ?
In every edition, we could feature one registered member - when they joined the community, what they do for a living, general area of the country where they live, contributions to the community, etc. I, personally, am not going to put very much "personal" information in the newsletter or any where else on the web. I think Lakemen would like a photo, but I just don't agree with that.
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About what though?
Since your expertise appears to be in the areas of "claims", you will probably want to write about that.
I think an article like, "What To Do And Not To Do At The Scene Of An Auto Accident" would be a good one. Sometimes, people really get "loose lipped" when they should be silent.
Again, just a couple of paragraphs (250-500) words or something like that.
We neither want nor have space for a three page report.
By the way, what's going on with this area of the site, my page is splattered all over the place and half the stuff doesn't work.
Its good to see two of the senior most members of the community discussing about the newsletter here. About time I joined in as well!
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I think Lakemen would like a photo, but I just don't agree with that.
No problem Maze. We can have the photographs of only those members who are willing to share it with us.
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I think an article like, "What To Do And Not To Do At The Scene Of An Auto Accident" would be a good one.
Lori, I think that would be a good topic to choose. Good suggestion Maze. And yes, we do want it to be not more than a 400-500 word article. What do you say Lori?
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By the way, what's going on with this area of the site, my page is splattered all over the place and half the stuff doesn't work.
I dont see anything wrong at my end. May be it was a one-off thing for you as well. Keep me informed though.
OK, how often do you think we should publish the newsletter?
I'd say once a month would be pretty frequent...but hey, you're the one doing most of the work...
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we are only talking about a couple of paragraphs. Space is limited.
that makes me feel a little better, i thought you were wanting full on in depth articles...
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In every edition, we could feature one registered member - when they joined the community, what they do for a living, general area of the country where they live, contributions to the community, etc. I, personally, am not going to put very much "personal" information in the newsletter or any where else on the web. I think Lakemen would like a photo, but I just don't agree with that.
Yeah, he's already got a pic around here somewhere of me with my first ipod....ok, I've got a suggestion...how about if you ( ) come up with like a questionaire/profile that you would use on each one
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...."What To Do And Not To Do At The Scene Of An Auto Accident"
that's fine, when do you want it and how do you want it? pm/email?
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We neither want nor have space for a three page report.
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By the way, what's going on with this area of the site, my page is splattered all over the place and half the stuff doesn't work.
all seems fine at the moment, i've been having a lot of 'issues' lately as well....just random weird stuff...
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What do you say Lori?
ok _________________ Have you been helped by a poster? Do you want to show your appreciation? YOU CAN !! Just simply click on the donate button and send them some coin!
We should now try to promote the site to get more contributors /visitors, the Newsletter is a great idea.
About time I joined in as well!
