Here are five reasons to start a LinkedIn newsletter for your business. Lets explore why LinkedIn newsletters are a strategic tool for businesses aiming to outsmart the LinkedIn algorithm and drive business growth.
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Key moments in this episode:
00:00 Introduction to LinkedIn Newsletters
00:41 Uplift Live 2025
01:57 The Evolution of LinkedIn Newsletters
05:10 LinkedIn Newsletter Client Success
08:05 Top 5 Reasons to Use LinkedIn Newsletters
09:00 Reason#5: The Power of Two
10:09 Reason #4: Indexed by Google
11:14 Reason #3: Power of Repurposing LinkedIn Content
12:10 Reason #2: Ease of Setup
14:01 Reason #1: Ultimate Algorithm Buster
16:41 LinkedIn Company Page Invites Have Moved
17:43 LinkedIn Newsletter Best Practices
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There is one form of content on LinkedIn that outsmarts the LinkedIn algorithm.
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It was previously only available to a chosen few, and now it's available to both pages and profiles.
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What are we talking about?
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LinkedIn newsletters.
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If you don't have one, I want you to listen in to my top five reasons that I think every business
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should consider setting up a LinkedIn newsletter.
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G'day everyone.
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It is Michelle J Raymond back again for another episode and, you know, podcast hosts always
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say they're excited, but this week listeners, I am genuinely excited, not just about the topic
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that we've got today about LinkedIn newsletters and how they can really drive business growth,
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but I've got some other news to share with you, hot off the press I'm heading to the
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UK to speak at the Uplift Live conference.
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If you're anywhere nearby that area and can make it, I would love to meet as
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many of the podcast listeners as I can.
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It's super exciting.
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Of course, I'm going to be talking on LinkedIn company pages.
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So I'll start up my Speaker Diary series again, another country that I can tick off the list.
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So this is a conference that is dedicated to nerding out on LinkedIn only.
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So we don't talk about any other social media platforms.
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So if like me, you want to learn from the best of the best and understand how you can really
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level up and get more out of the platform, then I would hope that you can join us and of course
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the details are going to be in the show notes.
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So grab an early bird ticket before the allotment is sold out.
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I believe we're about 50 percent of the early bird tickets are already sold.
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So don't miss the opportunity.
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And I really hope that I'll get to meet you there.
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The second thing that I'm excited about is we're talking about LinkedIn newsletters this week.
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And once upon a time, like I said, in the intro.
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You may not have known it, but LinkedIn newsletters were reserved for a chosen few.
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Very few people had access to them.
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Fast forward to 2021 and they rolled out LinkedIn newsletters as part of creator mode.
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So if you had creator mode switched on, you had access to LinkedIn newsletters,
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and then not long after that, you know, about six months, a year later.
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LinkedIn company pages then had the option to run newsletters.
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And now with the disappearance of creator mode, we've now got newsletters available to all.
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Now I'm going to go into my top five reasons that I like LinkedIn newsletters, but there
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was also a report done the Edelman Thought Leadership report, which I've spoken about on
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the show several times because it's just so good.
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And it was commissioned in conjunction with LinkedIn.
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So, you know, we can really get some insights into what is driving the decisions of LinkedIn.
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Why are they going long when on every other platform, people tell you go shorter,
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that people's attention spans are shorter.
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Well the difference is in the B2B world, we're often looking to make buying decisions
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that are for hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars in some case.
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They take, you know, 18 months, two years, sometimes even longer to make happen.
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And you're not making decisions on those numbers over those timeframes based on a
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short form TikTok, you want to do a deep dive and people are looking for that information.
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They want to make sure that they're making the right decision along the way.
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And there's so many different ways that you can use LinkedIn newsletters, which is
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obviously one of the reasons that I love them.
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Now I've had mine going for a while.
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I've had about seven and a half thousand subscribers on my personal one and another
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few thousand over on my company page.
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And it was just so easy for me to get started.
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For me, setting up a LinkedIn newsletter was way easier than setting
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up a newsletter off the platform.
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And even understanding the downside of this is I don't own my list.
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I'm building on borrowed land, so to speak.
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But the upside for me was pretty simply and easily I could set up the newsletter and
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then automatically be in communication with the community that I've built on LinkedIn.
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They don't have to go off the platform where they're used to interacting with
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me, we can continue that conversation.
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But yes, of course, I do know the downside and I appreciate that when you do a deep dive
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into email off LinkedIn, there is so much more targeting and personalization that you can do.
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So I'm not anti having newsletters off the platform and in fact, you can borrow some of that
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information and skills or repurpose what you've already done and bring it across onto platform.
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That's one of my favorite ways to use them.
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I'm coming off a high this week because I've been working with one of my clients
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on a strategy around how they should launch a new newsletter for their company page.
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And we've been working on that and we've been focused so much on making
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sure that the newsletter was all about adding value to their target audience.
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This is a page that has 150, 000 page followers.
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So not your everyday page, a pretty chunky size of followers and we wanted
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to really take advantage of that.
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Now within 24 hours, we had over 20, 000 subscribers.
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Within 72 hours, we were up to 25, 000.
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And I'm predicting easily within the first week, they'll have a brand new
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newsletter with 30, 000 subscribers.
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This has now become an extremely important channel for them to reach their target audience.
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So yes, that number's impressive.
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Who wouldn't want 30, 000 newsletter subscribers, but it's not just the number that counts.
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You know, I'm all about the demographics when it comes to analytics.
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And when we analyze those through the page analytics, we were blown away that the
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people that had subscribed were absolutely in the target audience that we wanted.
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So they had the job titles, they had the locations, they had the company sizes.
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So it was just a win on all fronts.
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And, you know, if that's where we start, it's only going to get better with time
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as we learn what their audience reacts to, what they like, and how we can really make
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sure that that newsletter stays valuable.
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Before we go into my five favorite reasons that I think you should have a LinkedIn newsletter.
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I'd love to know in the comments, have you got one?
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Is it on your profile?
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Is it in your company page?
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What success have you had?
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Let me know.
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If you can't comment, then drop me a DM over on LinkedIn.
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Make sure that we're connected.
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Let me know that you're listening to this episode.
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I'm going to rank my five favorite reasons that I think you should consider a LinkedIn
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newsletter in order saving the best to last.
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So make sure you stick around for number one.
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But let's start with number five.
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What is my fifth favorite reason for LinkedIn newsletters that I think
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you should take into consideration?
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Well, quite simply the flexibility, you have the opportunity to run it through
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your company page or your personal profile.
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Or if you have employees, you can run it through their personal profiles as well.
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So you have so many opportunities to do it in different ways with lots of flexibility.
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Now I'm all about The Power of Two.
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The LinkedIn Branding Book, when we wrote it is built on that.
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How can we leverage the both sides of LinkedIn.
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Now, when it comes to your company page, if you set up a newsletter over there, the
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only proviso is you need 150 page followers.
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So that's a bare minimum.
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The best part about it is if you have a much bigger page and you have separate brands,
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or maybe you deal with information going to different locations, you can set up up to
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five different newsletters per company page.
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So that's a pretty cool idea that you can play around with and remember, we're always
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only setting up content that we can manage over the longterm and do consistently.
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My fourth favorite reason for loving LinkedIn newsletters is the fact that not
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only do they get discovered on LinkedIn, but they also get discovered on Google.
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That's right, they're indexed by Google.
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Which means that if someone goes to Google and types in a question, looking for answers, and
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your LinkedIn newsletter is the best choice, then Google will put that information forward.
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So I think that's brilliant because LinkedIn is seen as trustworthy, and credible with Google.
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So quite often those results are way up the top, far more than I can
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achieve by myself as a small business.
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And if you think about it, if you create your own newsletter off
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LinkedIn, we don't get this benefit.
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So that's why it comes in at number four for me.
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Moving on to my third favorite reason that I love LinkedIn newsletters,
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and that is the power of repurposing.
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These newsletters on LinkedIn, give us opportunities to reuse some of our
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content and that could be a blog article that you've written off the platform.
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It could be an existing newsletter that you do off LinkedIn, but want
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to leverage your LinkedIn community.
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Podcast episodes you can easily embed.
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YouTube videos you can easily embed.
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Same with LinkedIn posts.
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There are so many different ways that you can take what you've already created and give
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it another life on your LinkedIn newsletter.
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You know, I'm a big fan of any time that we can take existing content and stretch the life
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out of it, repurpose it, get more return on our investment for the amount of time that it takes.
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So from this perspective, it's another big tick for me.
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My second favorite reason for loving LinkedIn newsletters is just how easy they are to set up.
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It takes just a few minutes.
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And for me, that took away the headache of trying to solve, which is the best
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tech platform that I should be using, doing all of my branding, creating lead
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magnets, having signup forms, worrying about welcoming sequences, all of these additional
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steps that are involved in traditionally creating a newsletter off the platform.
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And that for me has put me off for a number of years to the point where I'm
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only now just getting around to it.
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And in my head, there's still a mental block about, Oh my God, what
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if I make the wrong tech choice?
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What if I set it up over here and then I have to move it?
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What is an email sequence that is not going to annoy everybody else?
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Oh man, do I have to go and create a lead magnet?
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What is a lead magnet?
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What's the best one?
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These are the kinds of questions that have been going on in my mind
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at different stages over the years.
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With the LinkedIn newsletter, it was set up pretty quickly in a few minutes.
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Very easy to follow.
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Press publish and away I went.
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So that is my second favorite reason for why I love LinkedIn newsletters so much.
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The ease of setup is second to none.
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So what is my number one reason that I love LinkedIn newsletters?
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I'll let you know after this quick break.
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So my number one reason for loving LinkedIn newsletters is the fact that
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they are the ultimate algorithm buster.
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So let me tell you how this works on the very first time that you publish the
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newsletter goes out to every single one of your personal connections and followers.
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Think of it as a golden free kick that only happens on that first ever newsletter.
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And the same happens over on your page.
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When you press publish, it gets notified to every single page follower.
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It is the only time that that happens on LinkedIn.
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So make sure your first newsletter is the best.
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Once that goes out to people, they have the opportunity to subscribe.
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And once they hit subscribe, that means every time you publish the newsletter, They'll
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receive a notification for some people, depending on their settings they'll also
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maybe get a copy in their inbox off LinkedIn.
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So it's not even lost in amongst the notifications.
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It is the ultimate LinkedIn algorithm fighter.
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And if you think about it, when you do a normal post, the algorithm determines
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who that is most relevant to and shows a percentage of your followers and connections.
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With a LinkedIn newsletter, every time you hit publish, it goes out to all of your subscribers
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who have their notifications turned on, or it will show up in their inbox off LinkedIn.
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So if you think about it, you press publish on the newsletter.
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It notifies every single one of your subscribers and then automatically you're no longer
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fighting for space and, you know, really facing fierce competition in the home feed.
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Now this is especially important for company pages, which we know
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aren't being displayed there as much.
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So we've got to find ways to work around this.
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So that's why I love LinkedIn newsletters.
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That is my favorite reason of all.
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And if you're just starting out on LinkedIn, I would suggest just
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hanging back on this for a little bit.
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Find your feet, work your way around on the platform.
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And then when you have that consistency and grow a decent community, then you can
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really take advantage of that free golden kick that happens on the first newsletter.
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So I hope that that has inspired you to consider LinkedIn newsletters, that there is
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a place for long form content on the platform.
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That the modern B2B buyers are actually asking for this content, they don't
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always want short form content.
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So no more fighting with the algorithm is exactly what I'm up for.
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And I hope that you are to listeners.
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Now, rather than an actionable tip this week, it's a bit of a LinkedIn new feature, public
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service announcement that I thought I'd go with, and it's actually related to LinkedIn
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company page invites to follow the page.
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Now, the reason that I want to bring this up is that LinkedIn did some changes with
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the admin layout over in page admin view.
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And when they did that, they moved the invite to connect where you get 250 invites, they
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moved that into a random place under analytics.
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And so we all lost it and there was a bit of an uproar and we gave them feedback
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and thankfully they listened and now it's sitting over in the admin view.
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Left hand menu down the side, you'll see invite followers.
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And so that's the place where you can go and look for it.
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You get your 250 invite credits per month.
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If you don't use them, you lose them.
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So if you haven't been able to find it, that's where it is now.
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If it's not there, then it just means that the update hasn't rolled out to you as yet.
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So hang in there.
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They are fixing it.
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So listeners, as we wrap up the show today, if you want to know what a LinkedIn newsletter looks
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like, or have a look at some best practices, why not come across to my LinkedIn profile,
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Michelle J Raymond, have a look in the featured section and you will see my newsletter there.
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Click on that.
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You can go back and have a look through the past editions at the different layouts
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and styles that I've tried and I'm always happy to make recommendations if you'd
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like to look at some other great examples.
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So until next week, cheers.
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