NWA Daily | July Recap

The summer's top stories, reader travel tendencies, and how to make boring email stuff not so boring.

Author

Tad Moore
July 30, 2025

Hey folks!

I sent our last Pulse email on May 27—two days before my fourth son was born!

It’s been a wild month in the Moore household to say the least, but I’m thankful for my team who kept the Daily running so I could take some time away to be with the fam.

Now let’s catch up on things! Today’s email includes:

  • 🖐️ The top 5 stories from June AND July

  • 📊 What our poll revealed about locals’ travel tendencies

  • 📧 An offer to help you spruce up your own newsletter

Here we go!

🖐️ Top Five Stories From June AND July

Since we missed our June Pulse email this summer, let’s turn up the competition and see what stories rose to the top from the past two months!

📊 From The Reader Polls

We run polls to learn more about our readers’ opinions, preferences, concerns, etc.

Some are serious, and some are just for fun. But they often spark ideas for me as I curate content for the newsletter. Maybe one will spark an idea for your business or organization, too!

If you have a free weekend to get away, what are your plans? (112 Votes)

  • 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ 🚲 Staycation in Northwest Arkansas (35)

  • 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🚙 Hit the road for a short trip (~3 hrs or less) (48)

  • 🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🛫 Board a plane to one of XNA's direct destinations (29)


Have an idea for a poll? 📊 
Reply to this email and let me know!

💬 How Can We Help You With Your Newsletter?

You've probably accumulated a lot of emails in your business or organization. And maybe you know you've got a big opportunity to turn that list into a community cultivator or customer engine.

But where do you start? And how do you make sure the emails aren’t… well, bad? Maybe it feels like one of those important but tedious tasks that always ends up on the back burner.

Since launching NWA Daily (and growing it to 40,000+ subscribers), we've definitely learned some things the hard way. So we'd love to share what's worked for us and help you skip the mistakes we made along the way.

Would you take this quick 10-question survey about your email approach? It'll help us understand how we can be most helpful.

Plus, for the first 5 people to complete it, we’ll run a free audit on your email system to point out simple improvement opportunities.

All the best,
Tad

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