Are Monthly Newsletters to Clients Beneficial? Heck Yeah!

By Mary Beth Ausbrooks, Rothschild & Ausbrooks PLLC (Nashville, TN)

With the prolonged decline in case filings, I found that sending a mass emailed newsletter has been very beneficial. In order to send a mass email to a group of people, it was necessary to find software that would send the emails out in such a fashion that the email would not be flagged as spam. Through a recommendation from Hank Hildebrand, I bought a very inexpensive software program called Sperry. With this software, I simply create an . . .

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