Be Careful of What You Send Your List!

I recently emailed my lists (I have several under different opt-ins), with a free offer of registering for calls to listen to internet marketers being ‘grilled’.

What a huge mistake that was I had a large batch of unsubscribers. The mistake I made was to send a blanket broadcast out and covered all my lists.

If I had put my brain in gear before proceeding with this course of action I would have realised that my subscribers to a site where I give away free products would not be the list bit interested in internet marketers being grilled hence the unsubs (if they think I am going to be sending this type of information to them – they are going to just say forget it). Let’s face it we all get more than enough emails sent to us with the stuff we are interested in.

So a word of caution be very careful and selective as to what you send to your subscribers – keep it topical to the kind of list they signed up to.

Again, learn from others mistakes. I now have to work that bit harder and definitely smarter to rebuild the numbers in one of my lists.

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2 Responses to “Be Careful of What You Send Your List!”

  1. Hi Barbara

    If its any consolation, I did the same!

    It took a pal of mine (from business) to unsubscribe to make me realise my mistake. Whoops, what a twit!

    Fail forward is my middle names!

    Joe

  2. Not sure I follow that Barbara. I don’t think you can know who will be interested in what.

    I don’t usually unsubscribe myself on the strength of one email. I stay on a list until I see what is being offered over a period of time. It’s only if I get a lot of emails that I don’t get any benefit from that I will then unsubscribe.

    Point worth considering though.

    Sandy
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