Are Newsletters a Good Idea? | LinkedIn Updates and Changes | Tips, Events and more

In the past month, we have set up three newsletters here on LinkedIn, utilising the platform’s newest publishing format. This experiment has been interesting, not least because – let’s be honest, newsletters aren’t exactly new or exciting.

This makes their popularity on LinkedIn somewhat surprising. More on than in a moment.

Before I was given access to newsletters I’d seen other people’s newsletters with big subscriber numbers. I assumed that was because they had large networks. Now, I’m not sure if it might not be we, the members, driving it. After all, the algorithm can only do so much to persuade us to get on board with new formats. With newsletters we vote with the subscribe button.

Let me share our results in publishing newsletters.

This newsletter, published for the first time on March 17 (4 weeks ago), has garnered slightly greater than a 26% subscriber rate, keeping in mind that the first issue is sent to all connections. Some of these subscribers may be people who follow but are not connected to me so while it’s not an entirely accurate measurement, it is indicative.

Our Link∙Ability company page newsletter was published for the first time on April 4, just over two weeks ago, and has so far also been subscribed to by 26% of the page’s followers.

Two weeks ago we published the first company page newsletter for a client which has gained a nearly 21% subscriber rate. We expect this to increase over the next 2-3 weeks.

Published newsletters are stored in the same tab as articles on profiles and pages but they may get their own tab in due course which will make them more visible. However, if a newsletter is published from a personal profile, as is this one, it can be pinned to the Featured section.

This proximity to articles may explain why we’re seeing many newsletters being written as if they were articles, instead of a format usually associated with newsletters. Usually this is made up of several shortish articles, plus news items, promos and company news.

However, it seems many people are using the reach of the newsletter format to get their articles more widely seen. And that certainly seems to be the case. Comparisons of the newsletters mentioned above show that this newsletter received 3754 impressions whereas the previous article a month before scored 1569. However, the impression or view number of newsletters from company pages doesn’t seem to be available or wasn’t when I was writing this.

Bearing all this in mind, and given that it is early days, it seems that newsletters have taken off. The proof will be in subsequent issues, however. But if you have the resources or already publish a newsletter elsewhere, then adding it to your LinkedIn content marketing makes great sense.

New from LinkedIn in the last month

 💠 Live captions will display on audio events. (This already occurs for LinkedIn lives which are video-based.)

💠 Improvements may finally be coming to Groups with a pop-up displaying after you publish a post inviting you to share it in a group you belong to.

💠 Lead generation forms are being added to product pages on company pages.

💠 Employees will be able to invite connections to follow the company page without being an admin.

💠 Company page super or content admins can comment directly on any post as their company rather than as themselves.

💠 A new Workplace module allows page admins to display established workplace policies on the About page.

💠 Someone who invites you to connect automatically becomes a follower, whether or not you accept their invitation.

These are just the changes announced or have begun roll out in March and early April. There is a longer list of earlier 2022 changes in our last newsletter: https://bit.ly/3E5tmWc

Some of our most useful recent posts:

Posting Quality Content on LinkedIn – https://bit.ly/3KSYb3f

Is it Time to Rethink Your About Section? – https://bit.ly/3J7lDYC

What We Learned From Our first LinkedIn Live – https://bit.ly/3rjj0gh

Have you fallen out of touch with your early connections on LinkedIn? – https://bit.ly/3rjd6vQ

How to Block and Unblock Another LinkedIn Member – https://bit.ly/37GglGv

The Important Components of a Quality LinkedIn Post – https://bit.ly/37conHp

Want to Use LinkedIn as a Platform for Your Thought Leadership? – https://bit.ly/3xhgDP2

Upcoming event:

Our next FREE Link∙Ability webinar is on Thursday May 12 and will focus on How to Give Your LinkedIn Profile the X-Factor with New Features and Techniques. In this webinar I’ll take you through profiles section by section, sharing ways you can give yours a new lease of life.

We’ll cover new features, some you may not know about and discuss how to structure your profile in a way that helps you meet your particular goals on the platform.

Please do join us on Thursday May 12 at 1pm NZST / 11am AEST for this deep dive into LinkedIn profiles. You can find out more details and register to attend at https://bit.ly/3u89bnt.

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Catch up with our recent webinar:

Our April webinar about creating content on LinkedIn sparked a lot of debate about different ways to build visibility on the platform. If you’d like to catch the replay, it’s available at https://bit.ly/3rjJWN4

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