One reason I have seen for companies avoiding newsletters is that they do not want to take the time to set up an operation like that. After all, newsletters are going to require a much different approach when it comes to the design and the way you implement them than a lot of other forms of marketing.

I have also seen companies who avoid newsletters because they do not think that they are unique enough, or that their customers are not going to want to sit down for the amount of time they would have to in order to read a full newsletter. This may or may not be true, but so long as the company believes it, they are not about to pay for newsletters.

Well, there are other ways to go about creating newsletters if you are willing to look at some interesting takes on what a newsletter really is.

Is the structure the most important part of a newsletter or is it merely the information being presented? I would think that the information is the important thing no matter what kind of format you happen to put it in, and that is why postcards can be a very good way of getting a newsletter out there.

A large number of companies are already going to print postcards as a part of their marketing, meaning they are well acquainted with the style and they are used to making them. They should also have the structure set up for easily sending out their postcards to a group of customers. They already have the names and addresses along with a system for adding in new names to make the process that much easier.

But a postcard obviously does not have the kind of room that a normal newsletter does, so you have to approach it differently. Send out a single postcard perhaps every month or maybe biweekly that has two articles on it; one articles on the front of the postcards and one on the back.

Now you can get just as many articles and information to people as you would from a full newsletter except that you are doing it spread out over multiple postcards rather than all at once.

With this system you are giving people something unique, which will help spark their interest in it, and they do not have to read the entire newsletter at the same time because they are reading the newsletter spread out over the different postcards.

You could also include different coupons or other deals with each newsletter, which will encourage people to take a greater notice of them and be more likely to read through them.

There are other unique ways to approach newsletters if you do not want to print postcards, or are not already using postcards with your marketing. My purpose is not to give a comprehensive list of what you can do, but instead to get you thinking about how you might vary up your newsletter, and give people something unique.