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Emailers Diluting Their Own Credibility, Lately

by azmanar
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Hi,

Not complaining. It is just a concern about a changing trend for the past several months.

I'm subscribed to 30 personalities' email list. Some because I bought their powerful products and some because I like reading their enlightening articles.

Lately, most of the emails I received from the list are just promoting other people's WSOs. This is a shame.

What struck me dumb really is when 6 different people are promoting the same WSOs.

This could mean 3 things :
=> those WSOs are simply very powerful and should not be missed or
=> it is one of their ways in making commissions without being original
=> maybe both of the above.

Now the clog in my inbox is getting worse. I'm about to drain the stales out and cut off the source of the problem.

There are more and more emails of similar nature - overlapping promotions of other people's WSOs. I did check the recommended WSO's but I don't find them radical nor exciting. They are not interesting even. So the main reason they got sent to my inbox is to make commissions, and nothing else.

I'm already subscribed to 3 list, which do WSO evaluations specifically. So I don't need more.

What I want from my hero Warriors are definitely NOT WSO evaluations. What I want are enlightening articles, great advice, useful tips and exciting ideas. I want their original products AND NOT OTHER PEOPLE's products.

Note:
There are still some great warriors who remain as original as I subscribed to since day one. They always came out with the WOW! factor every time in their emails. Never missed their products too, if relevant to my needs.
#credibility #diluting #warriors
  • Profile picture of the author Marcus Rockey
    I take your point but from the list holders perspective they have thousands of people on their email list, only a tiny percentage are Warriors.

    If the list holder knows what they are doing then they promote what the majority not minority of people want and need.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    Just out of curiosity...

    What does an email have to have for you to consider it has the 'Wow factor?'
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  • Profile picture of the author retsced
    I agree with you. I immediately unsubscribe from an email list if I get 2 WSO offers one after the other. This is not marketing. It's lazy - and unoriginal. The whole point of being on someones list is to receive quality tips, tricks, strategies etc. If your idea of providing value is to link to WSO threads then I'm gone.

    Personally, I only promote stuff I use. If I haven't bought the product and found it useful myself, I will not send it to my subscribers. I wouldn't send WSO offers to my friends so I won't send them to my list unless I already bought it myself - and it's safe to assume these peddlers have not bought these WSO's.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by azmanar View Post

    I'm subscribed to 30 personalities' email list. Some because I bought their powerful products and some because I like reading their enlightening articles.

    Lately, most of the emails I received from the list are just promoting other people's WSOs. This is a shame.
    Agreed.

    In fact I think it's worse than just "a shame". It's often deceptive. If they tell you that you're opting in "for product updates" or whatever, and then they promote WSO's to you as an affiliate on an almost daily basis, they're also stupid. They don't do it "because it works"; they do it "because they believe it'll work" and those are two very different things. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them, albeit temporarily (they don't normally survive a year in the industry), but unfortunately their places are all too regularly taken by others repeating the same nonsensical behavior.

    One has to unsubscribe, when one can (that isn't "always", contrary to what so many people claim), and just hope they haven't passed your email on to others (though they sometimes have, as is readily verifiable if you use specific email addresses for specific things).
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