As the heat of July rolls in, it’s a perfect time to add a dash of summer zest to your newsletter content. Whether it’s sharing tips for beating the heat, showcasing summer product launches, or simply sharing behind-the-scenes glimpses of your team's summer activities, July is ripe with opportunities for engaging newsletter content. Remember, the goal is to create a sense of community, offer value, and most importantly, ensure your brand stays top of mind in a fun, relevant way...

As we usher in June, a month synonymous with the vibrancy of summer, the possibilities for your newsletter content bloom like flowers in the sun. (Assuming you're in the northern hemisphere, of course! I've got some ideas for southern hemisphere folks too...)

After last month's "April Showers," it's time for the good stuff: May flowers, sunshine, and the impending summer season (at least in the northern hemisphere; you down south are bundling up for winter!). May is generally a pretty good month to be a blogger or site owner: it's usually the start of the lucrative summer season with high traffic and high ad revenues. We've gotta take advantage of that and bring our most devoted readers back – and that means email...

"April showers" might be what we think of, but I personally love April: it's a month where life returns to the world in the part of it I call home. Flowers bloom, the sun returns, the temperatures warm, and it's my birthday month! (Okay, maybe that makes me partial to April a bit more than most people...)

If there’s one area we all struggle to be as committed as we should, it’s email, right? I mean, I feel you – I admitted as much in my recent London On My Mind two-year case study update – and that’s a site I love and work hard on. For that reason, I’ve decided to commit myself to send emails more frequently on many of my sites, and that means coming up with a lot more ideas for what to send. I started a series on the Site School podcast each month sharing 4-5 ideas for what to send – and then realized it could be a very helpful series…

There's a lot of buzz about email marketing and why you should be doing it – but as I've discovered, email is probably the most neglected part of every website owner or blogger's business. Literally, it's the thing that everyone says "I know I should be doing it but I just don't know what to do/how to do it." If you feel the same, you're not alone...