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What do Honda and Justin Bieber have in common?

This lens might not be all that relevant but Joe, if you starting selling shit tomorrow, I'd be buying..../snip/... It's a stretch to say this is similar to a newsletter, i get it, but it's in the same vein of thought in my head. Am I too off kilter with that?

Mitch, you took my lead, I was going to say that if we worked together and YOU are leading the newsletter charge, I'd walk away and KNOW that it's gonna work... 'cuz you have the TALENT and PASSION to knock it over the fence.

That being said, you're an outlier. 99% of the dealer body (me included) don't have a talented player that can take the ball and run with it. You have so much fun that readers would just love to go along for the ride!! Just to lock it up, if you do a Bieber spoof, I AM SURE a FORD will find its way onto your set ;-)
 

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A dealer criticizes a local dealership's email newsletter for mixing irrelevant lifestyle content (Justin Bieber facts, useless trivia) with promotional messages, questioning whether this unfocused approach actually drives results. The debate splits between practitioners who defend this "air cover" strategy as proven effective for engagement and skeptics who argue it wastes the limited attention of prospects and dilutes the core sales message with noise. The key insight: there's a fundamental disagreement about email marketing strategy—whether providing varied lifestyle content alongside deals builds genuine customer relationships and drives sales, or whether it's lazy marketing that annoys recipients and damages brand credibility.

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