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Email Marketing vs. Newsletters: What’s the Difference?

If you’re a therapist, coach, or financial advisor starting an email newsletter, you’ve probably noticed people use “newsletter” and “email marketing” interchangeably. But there is a difference, and understanding it matters for choosing the right platform and strategy. Email marketing exists on a spectrum from pure information-sharing to active selling, and newsletters typically sit at the intersection of thought leadership and updates. Knowing where your emails fall on this spectrum helps you make better decisions about what to send, how often, and which tools will actually support your goals.

Should you have a newsletter for your small business?

Newsletters are one of the most effective marketing tools for therapists, financial advisors, coaches, and consultants. Email marketing offers service-based businesses a reliable way to stay visible and nurture relationships with past clients, prospective clients, and referral partners without fighting social media algorithms. This guide covers how often to send newsletters, what content resonates with professional audiences, and essential best practices.

Kit vs. Substack: Which Platform is Right for Your Business?

Choosing between Kit (formerly ConvertKit) and Substack for your newsletter? Kit is an email marketing platform built for service-based business owners who need to segment their audience, automate their marketing, and sell their services or products. Substack is a newsletter publishing platform designed for writers focused on thought leadership, with built-in community features and discoverability. Choose Kit if you need to send different emails to different groups (clients vs. prospects), automate your onboarding sequences, and promote your services. Choose Substack if your newsletter IS your product, you want simple publishing with community engagement, and you’re focused purely on editorial content. In this post, I’ll break down how these two platforms compare across features, pricing, and use cases—so you can make the right choice for your business.

3 Automated Email Series to Repurpose Your Content and Keep Marketing Sustainable

If you’ve ever signed up for someone’s email list and immediately regretted it, you know how email marketing automation can go wrong. Maybe you got five emails in a single day. Or maybe you didn’t hear from them for months, and by the time they finally popped back into your

Case Study: How Diann Upgraded Her Email Marketing by Moving from Kajabi to Kit

Before migrating to ConvertKit (now Kit), Diann Wingert, a business coach and host of the podcast, ADHDish, was using Kajabi for her email marketing. It was kind of working for her business, but something about the pricey all-in-one platform was missing the mark.

Intent vs. Impact in Email Marketing: How to Align Your Messaging with Subscriber Experience

As empathetic business owners, we use email marketing to build relationships, provide value, and engage our audience. But sometimes our messages don’t always land as intended. In this post, we’ll explore common email marketing missteps where intent and impact don’t align, and how to fix them to create a more ethical, human-centered email experience.
This blog post explores common email marketing missteps—such as overloading welcome sequences, skipping onboarding emails, misusing countdown timers, and automation errors—and provides practical solutions to align intent with impact.

Client Case Study: Transforming a ‘Jumbled-up Cluster’ into an Automated Email System that Freed Up this Lactation Consultant’s Time

Amy’s Kit (formerly ConvertKit) account was a mess. As a lactation consultant providing high-touch services, she knew email marketing was important for her business. She’d heard it everywhere – from podcasts to business coaches – email marketing was key to nurturing relationships and building trust with potential clients.

But the time and effort she was spending on getting her Kit account to do what she needed it to do was taking away from her client time.

How to Automate Your Email Marketing with Link Triggers

A link trigger is a simple but super powerful tool that will help you to automate and personalize your email marketing for your small business. They’re like a virtual pathways that enables you to connect more deeply with your subscribers transforming your small business’s email from one-size-fits-all broadcasts into personalized conversations.

Does Your Freebie or Newsletter Need a Double Opt-in?

Ever wondered if your freebie or newsletter needs that extra click of confirmation? The debate between single and double opt-ins is more complex than you might think, involving factors like consent, deliverability, human connection, and business model. This guide explores the pros and cons of each approach, helping you stay on the right side of email regulations while reflecting your business values.

Email Segmentation Strategy using Tags, Segments, and Custom Fields in Kit (Formerly known as ConvertKit)

Wondering what’s the difference between tags and segments in Kit (formerly known as ConvertKit)? And honestly, what the heck is a custom field? We’ll break down what all these jargony terms actually mean and how to use them the right way so that you can ensure that the right emails go to the right subscribers at the right time.

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