My fears on building a list.

I understand your risk in list building. It's not for everyone and just like any other business model. There are risks involved. Permission marketing has been around for a very long time and will continue to do so. As long as you give value to a list and work on building a relationship with your list. You will be fine. A list is a powerful assist to have...

The key word is perhaps "almost"?

It's possible, but extremely unlikely, to get into some trouble through no fault of your own.

Nothing is totally risk-free. You take a chance (and a more serious one) every time you cross the road or get into a car. You can control the overwhelming majority of the risk by behaving appropriately/sensibly. The remaining tiny little bit of "pure random chance" isn't worth worrying about, because if you worry about it obsessively, you'd never get anything done at all (is how I look at it, anyway).

Regarding sending out auroresponder emails, it's obviously sensible to comply with all your autoresponder company's terms of service (not so easy, perhaps, for people using Mailchimp?!), and not to send out anything about which you think people might complain.

This might help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

By the way, Email Marketing discussions belong here: Email Marketing

James,

You can be sued for being ugly to someone else these days.

Will it get tossed out?

Not the point.

The point is this:

You have a choice to make, right now, between this:

Living In Fear, or Being Fearless.

Really, that's all there is to this.

How about you contact Mailchimp to get the full details? Educate yourself to the best of your ability and press on.

Life is too short to worry about 'possibly, maybe, getting sued'.

Yes excellent points, fear gets you nowhere.

Nowadays there are a lot of people like this who are afraid of everything and eventually life passes by and they have done nothing...

It's probably worth mentioning that AWeber has a built in "spam score" and doesn't let you even add an email to your sequence if it's too high on the spam score. Not sure if mailchimp has something similar.

You must face your fear to be success on online business.

I was reading through some guides from mailchimp and it describes how some folks can get in serous trouble and almost by accident.

First of all, I wouldn't advise using Mailchimp. Although their low costs are very attractive they don't allow any form of affiliate promotion. In fact if you read through their T&C's they make it clear that they really don't like affiliate marketers and they will close your account down and you'll lose your susbcribers list.

(I'm presuming that as you are new that you don't have your own products and that you'll will be starting out by recommending affiliate products).

As mentioned already on here, Aweber will give you a spam score before you click send so that you can edit your emails to make them less likely to hit the spam box.

But if you're subscribers make it a habit of not opening your emails, eventually your messages will end up going into the Spam any way, no matter which autoresponder service you use.

So it's really your responsibility to make sure that people will want to open them.

Staying relevant to the Free gift you used as bait, keeping your email subject lines under about 38 characters ( for mobiles ) and using mobile responsive templates ( Aweber and Get response do some good ones ) as many people won't read an email that they have to keep stretching and shrinking to be able to read).

Also, using a double optin forces people to go back to their email and re confirm, so if they really want your Free gift they will do this and will be more likely to open your following emails, provided they found it valuable and useful to them

Personally I've never heard of anyone who got into serious legal trouble for spam but if they did it's probably those who 'buy' email lists. Not because they're subscribers relegated them to the spam box



Aweber and Get Response both have excellent blogs/newsletters you can sign up for that will be able to help you with all this.

But there's no point in not starting your list because your'e worried about it.

Hope this helps

Debbie