[NEOPAL]really, REALLY, important message from Fred about making NEOPAL more EFFECTIVE

Sat Mar 25 17:20:48 PST 2006

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Hi Everybody,

We all want NEOPAL to be as effective as possible.   Ironically, the more 
postings that go out, the more likely you all will delete  the majority of them 
without reading them.

So, here are a few guidelines (not rules, just guidelines) to  improve 
everyone's experience.

1)  When posting, less is more.  Instead of sending out  the same message 
every other day, limit it to once a week.

2) Your subject line is the most important part of the  message.  Subscribers 
will decide whether to open your message and read it  based on how personally 
relevent it is.  Even if they don't open your  message the subject line is a 
summary of your message and they will read that,  so make the most of it.   
Make sure you include the producing  organization and event, and any other 
important information.  IE - "BOGO  for Sunday's performance of The Iceman Cometh 
at North Coast Rep"

3) Use a prefix in the subject line to let people know what it is  about,  
AUDITION:, OPENING:, SALE:, FREE:, WORKSHOP:, POSITION NEEDED:,  PROP NEEDED:, 
ACTOR NEEDED:, GUITARIST NEEDED, etc.

That's it.  Thanks!

Fred  Sternfeld
_http://www.fredsternfeld.com_ (http://www.fredsternfeld.com/) 
216-360-0708-home
216-496-6087-cell

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