Unsubscribing From A List - Your Approach?

I have a rough personality at times so it depends on when you catch me. I try and do not want to respond though. Sometimes I do.

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Oh there wasn't a spot for my answer is why I dd not do your poll.

Sometimes depending on my mood, I give them a shout.
I mean my first personal website liftingforlife when I was a bodybuilder
some one came and stated you can't even spell whatever right who would take
you seriously. I went off on them. Sometimes someone cusses me out in my email marketing and I just think how stupid can you look, so it just depends.

I guess I'm the arrogant type then. If someone unsubscribes from my list I tend to think, 'How the hell could you be so crazy!? My emails have the best sh*t in the biz! What's yo' problem punk!? I don't care about your feedback. It's irrelevant to me! Loser! Feedback, Pah!! You talkin' to me!? Ya talkin' to me!???'
Said with a wink.

I'm not unsubscribing from you emails lol.

I learned a long time ago the best thing to do is not even read those. They will most likely get you upset and responding back with "equal venom" is a good way to get a blog post written about you or get your comment shared on social media.

I read a course from a very successful list builder some time back that said those types of comments are best ignored. He goes on to say that unsubscribes in general are "irrelevent figures" that you shouldn't pay attention to and that most people who unsub weren't going to spend any money anyway so you shouldn't even pay attention to that number. The number that you should concern yourself with is new subscribers. It might sound cold but in a way it's true. By the time the subscriber has gotten to the point that they not only unsubscribed but left a nasty comment, it's far too late to turn them into a customer so why waste your valuable time & energy on something that you cannot achieve?

If you want to read the comments to possibly get some feedback for your marketing campaigns that's fine, but I wouldn't respond. You might say something you will end up regretting. Like I said, I wouldn't even bother reading them. Why invite negativity into your life?

When you have people on your list, you will always have people who are negative and offensive. As soon as someone start complaining to you and being negative, I would not even reply back to them. Just delete them from your list and move on.

I personally just delete them and move on. I have a bad habit of holding onto things, so I have learned it is much better to let things go. After all, the person is not of value anymore. There are also people that are just having a bad day and want to vent on someone.

I used to yell back at people quickly when things like that happen. I hate negativity, but I went to a different approach. I started to wait a good hour or two before I replied to see if I settled down my anger a bit. I am now just ignoring it altogether.

They are un-subbed so they are gone. Not my day to babysit!

I concentrate on the people who want to hear from me.

I have received plenty of emails that had me cussing, but usually they come from people I know for a fact I did not sign up to be on their list. My take on this angle is they are most likely paying to have me on their list, so I just 'filter' skip the inbox, and let em keep sending their garbage to the dump at their expense, not mine!

However, I don't have an established list to speak of as of yet, and have yet to experience the 'disgruntled unsubscriber' - I'd probably just let it go, but I've been known to snap on people for undeserved attacks, so who knows what might transpire.

It's the "you've got commissions waiting" emails that piss me off, especially when they come from 20 different names, but the physical address is the same! - I've been pounding the spam button on those all week. (Again, I know I didn't sign up to their list!)

Simple. If someone unsubscribes that means that they do not want you to email them anymore. Honor their request and do not email them anymore.

Rather than waiting to find out why someone unsubscribed by reading the comment, you could go on the offensive. If you really wanted to know what your subscribers thought, couldn't you simply ask before they unsubscribe (such as while they are actively subscribed)? This would be a better way to know what to include in your emails, rather than taking the defensive approach and responding after the fact or trying to tweak your email list based on people who are no longer interested.

As for any email replies I get - I typically "ignore" the random "hate email". But if you are using a "leave feedback" option at Aweber then I would disable it. Only negativity will come from using this option...

Cheers,
Coby

Simply asking your email subscribers what they want from the news letter or list will be an act of good will. People want to be included and have their opinion count. After all, the only people you should be trying to appease are the current not past subscribers you have already lost.

You could garner input by offering a survey or poll for your subscriber to take; asking the subscriber to respond to a newly created forum thread (assuming you own a forum) or blog post or to simply RE back with the email so you can read their response.

If a few people leaving your list or sending you poor messages upsets you, your list isn't big enough.

Ignore it, make money off the other thousands still subscribed.

You be the bigger person! You just ignore them, that's why they have the option to unsubscribe it they are not satisfied. People like that don't deserve your attention.

[x] silently unsubscribe that user, and go on with your day.