100 Things to Do With a Newsletter

Welcome to our 100th blog post! In honor of the occasion, we’ve compiled a list of 100 things you can do with your newsletter! Our very favorite things to do with a newsletter are outlines in our signature orange. As for the other suggestions, proceed with caution! Some of them could literally poke your eye out.

So without further ado, here’s

1. Read it!

2. Use it to stay in touch with your clients

3. Use it to introduce yourself to new clients

4. Fill it with beneficial, entertaining content

5. Cut out the recipes–create a recipe book
6. Share the recipe book
7. Fold it into a paper airplane
8. Put it in your shock-and-awe package

9. Add it to your mailing packages

10. Hang it in your cubicle/office with pride
11. Make a cootie catcher
12. Use it to wrap a present
13. Make a paper football
14. Use it to stuff an uncomfortable pillow (most likely for a house guest that you wish would leave)
15. Use it as a makeshift paper plate–a utensil and an entertainment source all wrapped into one!
16. Make blackout poetry
17. Burn it to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland (although you might want to save it in case you get bored)
18. Stick it to your walls–instant wallpaper!
19. Share it with your business partners

20. Share it with your acquaintances

21. Make chinese lanterns
22. Make an origami crane
23. Use it for paper mache
24. Make a pinata
25. Make a pirate hat
26. Cut it up and use the letters to write a ransom note (Read your newsletter… or else!)
27. Fold it up and stick it under the leg of your wobbly table
28. Use it as packing paper
29. Use it as scrapbook paper
30. Make a paper fan
31. Cut it into a paper snowflake
32. Make paper dolls
33. Share it with your friends

34. Share it with your co-workers

35. Tape several together and create a “finish line”
36. Make a paper wall to break through (Oh yeah!)
37. Make a paper chain
38. Use it as a Valentines Day card
39. Use it as a birthday card
40. Make a collage
41. Make a paper quilt
42. Use it as a placemat
43. Make Christmas ornaments
44. Use it as a makeshift coloring book
45. Doodle on it
46. Use it to self publish (your hilarious comic strip)
47. Use it to make picture frames
48. Roll it up and use it as a megaphone
49. Roll it up and use it as a telescope
50. Roll it up and use it as a sword
51. Recycle it
52. Make book covers
53. Put it on your fridge (with 5 gold stars)
54. Stick it on someone’s windshield
55. Put it in your portfolio
56. Use it to entertain yourself on long road trips
57. Use it to entertain yourself on short road trips
58. Leave it in the library (AKA the bathroom) for reading material
59. Keep it on your nightstand
60. Ball it up and throw it at someone in order to get their attention
61. Cut it up and use it to write an anonymous love letter
62. Leave it in local businesses

63. Leave it in places where your ideal clients will find it

64. Frame it and hang it on your wall (matter of fact, we’ll frame it for you)

65. Make a paper beard–wear it on your face
66. Make paper flowers–give them to your wife
67. Bury it in a time capsule, dig it up in 10 years
68. Weave paper baskets
69. Use it as your holiday letter
70. Throw it in the air
71. Wave it like you just don’t care
72. Use it as a movie prop
73. Make a paper dream catcher–dream of increased profits
74. Ball it up and practice your dunking skills
75. Make party hats–host a party
76. Make a masquerade mask–host a ball
77. Sell it to the highest bidder as a work of art
78. Use them as bag inserts at a trade show
79. Roll it up and use it as a wand (Expecto Patronum!)
80. Roll it up and use it to conduct an orchestra
81. Read it to your children
82. Send it to your prospective clients

83. Send it to your current clients

84. Use it as a flag for an imaginary country
85. Tape it to your window and use it as a light blocker
86. Tape it to your window for decorative purposes
87. Staple it to a street pole
88. Leave it in your reception area

89. Leave it in your breakroom

90. Make a treasure map
91. Make ninja stars
92. Give them away as gifts
93. Send it to your parents
94. Send it to your referral sources

95. Give them away at networking events

96. Make “high fashion” outfits — host a fashion show
97. Use them to make a path in a game of “the floor is lava”
98. Use it as a last resort napkin
99. Keep it on your coffee table
100. Make spitballs — shoot them at your enemies (this one might poke someone else’s eye out)

Okay, we would prefer if you didn’t use your newsletter as confetti — after all, the point is to get those things out and about! But even we have to admit that making ninja stars and going to war with your co-workers can be a good time.

What’s your favorite thing to do with your newsletters? Let us know!