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
- Read it!
Use it to stay in touch with your clients
Use it to introduce yourself to new clients
Fill it with beneficial, entertaining content
- Cut out the recipes–create a recipe book
- Share the recipe book
- Fold it into a paper airplane
- Put it in your shock-and-awe package
Add it to your mailing packages
- Hang it in your cubicle/office with pride
- Make a cootie catcher
- Use it to wrap a present
- Make a paper football
- Use it to stuff an uncomfortable pillow (most likely for a house guest that you wish would leave)
- Use it as a makeshift paper plate–a utensil and an entertainment source all wrapped into one!
- Make blackout poetry
- Burn it to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland (although you might want to save it in case you get bored)
- Stick it to your walls–instant wallpaper!
- Share it with your business partners
Share it with your acquaintances
- Make chinese lanterns
- Make an origami crane
- Use it for paper mache
- Make a pinata
- Make a pirate hat
- Cut it up and use the letters to write a ransom note (Read your newsletter… or else!)
- Fold it up and stick it under the leg of your wobbly table
- Use it as packing paper
- Use it as scrapbook paper
- Make a paper fan
- Cut it into a paper snowflake
- Make paper dolls
- Share it with your friends
Share it with your co-workers
- Tape several together and create a “finish line”
- Make a paper wall to break through (Oh yeah!)
- Make a paper chain
- Use it as a Valentines Day card
- Use it as a birthday card
- Make a collage
- Make a paper quilt
- Use it as a placemat
- Make Christmas ornaments
- Use it as a makeshift coloring book
- Doodle on it
- Use it to self publish (your hilarious comic strip)
- Use it to make picture frames
- Roll it up and use it as a megaphone
- Roll it up and use it as a telescope
- Roll it up and use it as a sword
- Recycle it
- Make book covers
- Put it on your fridge (with 5 gold stars)
- Stick it on someone’s windshield
- Put it in your portfolio
- Use it to entertain yourself on long road trips
- Use it to entertain yourself on short road trips
- Leave it in the library (AKA the bathroom) for reading material
- Keep it on your nightstand
- Ball it up and throw it at someone in order to get their attention
- Cut it up and use it to write an anonymous love letter
- Leave it in local businesses
Leave it in places where your ideal clients will find it
Frame it and hang it on your wall (matter of fact, we’ll frame it for you)
- Make a paper beard–wear it on your face
- Make paper flowers–give them to your wife
- Bury it in a time capsule, dig it up in 10 years
- Weave paper baskets
- Use it as your holiday letter
- Throw it in the air
- Wave it like you just don’t care
- Use it as a movie prop
- Make a paper dream catcher–dream of increased profits
- Ball it up and practice your dunking skills
- Make party hats–host a party
- Make a masquerade mask–host a ball
- Sell it to the highest bidder as a work of art
- Use them as bag inserts at a trade show
- Roll it up and use it as a wand (Expecto Patronum!)
- Roll it up and use it to conduct an orchestra
- Read it to your children
- Send it to your prospective clients
Send it to your current clients
- Use it as a flag for an imaginary country
- Tape it to your window and use it as a light blocker
- Tape it to your window for decorative purposes
- Staple it to a street pole
- Leave it in your reception area
Leave it in your breakroom
- Make a treasure map
- Make ninja stars
- Give them away as gifts
- Send it to your parents
- Send it to your referral sources
Give them away at networking events
- Make “high fashion” outfits — host a fashion show
- Use them to make a path in a game of “the floor is lava”
- Use it as a last resort napkin
- Keep it on your coffee table
- 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!
