When launching a LinkedIn newsletter, the platform notifies all your followers. The best tactic is to wait for this initial wave of subscribers to join *before* sending your first issue. Publishing too quickly means most of your new audience will miss the inaugural email, wasting the launch's momentum.

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The concept of a single best day and time to send an email is misleading. Instead, marketers should vary send times throughout the week to reach different segments of their audience. The key metric is the aggregate number of unique individuals engaged weekly, not the performance of a single blast.

B2B marketers typically target corporate emails, which are transient. LinkedIn newsletters are often sent to a user's personal, long-term email address associated with their account. This provides a durable and direct line of communication to a highly-guarded inbox that is difficult to access through other means.

The conventional wisdom is to move followers off social to an owned email list. However, the reverse is also powerful. Drive engagement and grow your social following by embedding links to your best social posts directly within your newsletters and promotional emails.

Prompting subscribers with simple, non-work-related questions (e.g., "What's your favorite holiday cookie?") encourages replies. This builds a conversational relationship, improves engagement signals, and positively impacts email deliverability and open rates.

Unlike standard posts that are subject to algorithmic reach, a LinkedIn newsletter sends an email directly to every subscriber's inbox. This provides a powerful, free distribution channel with nearly 100% deliverability, allowing marketers to guarantee their content is seen by their most engaged followers on the platform.

The idea of a single best time to send an email is outdated. Instead, measure success by the weekly aggregate of unique individuals opening your emails. Sending at various days and times hits different audience segments, maximizing your total reach over time.

Instead of treating social media as a long-term home, use it as a strategic tool to get your audience onto platforms you own, like an email list. The primary goal is to capture attention and immediately guide followers into your ecosystem, building a more resilient business off-platform.

Over 80% of marketers send emails on the hour, flooding inboxes in the first 10 minutes. By scheduling campaigns for a non-standard time, like 8:07 AM instead of 8:00 AM, you avoid this clutter and can increase open rates by around 15%.

Reverse the traditional marketing funnel. By linking from newsletters directly to a relevant social media post, brands can leverage their highly-engaged email audience to boost post performance and grow their social following simultaneously.

Launching a LinkedIn newsletter notifies your entire network, making it tempting to use for a single, high-priority announcement. However, LinkedIn's community team considers this a misuse of the feature and may intervene. Newsletters must provide ongoing value, not serve as a one-time promotional blast.