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How to extend your brand through your email newsletter

Greater Philadelphia Cares recruits and mobilizes thousands of volunteers each year for projects that benefit children, the elderly, the environment and the quality of life in our area. A nonprofit with a small staff, GPCares leverages the power of email marketing to reach out weekly to its 20,000 volunteers and tell them about current needs and opportunities. GPCares asked Hollister Creative to upgrade that email newsletter from good to great.

The improvements we made might give you ideas for upgrading your own email newsletter.

  1. Make your newsletter an extension of your brand. GPCares had named its newsletter "Weekly e-citizen," which had no direct relationship to the GPCares brand. "Volunteer Action" makes an obvious connection.
     
  2. Build in important hyperlinks. People are engaged with GPCares when they open its newsletter, so we made it easy for them to take the next step to its website, its Donate page and its Facebook page.
     
  3. Include at least one item that is entertaining or has a human interest tug. For GPCares, we added a weekly "Featured Volunteer" article and photo through which readers connect with one local person's thoughts and experiences.