Hey I love Christmas too, it's one of my favorite holidays but it's not like the whole world just stops moving.

I'm in Thailand right now where most of the population is Buddhist. Today has been pretty much a normal day. Christmas is a religious holiday and many people don't celebrate it. Even in places where it's celebrated, many places are still remain open or operate with reduced staff.

What if you emailed someone in India when it was a religious holiday for them? Do you know of all the holidays of different cultures and countries?

Maybe the list your on is an autoresponder sequence or maybe the marketer thought they could stand out from the clutter by emailing today. If you don't like it, then just unsubscribe. No need to really create a post about it.

Lots of places open for business today. In fact, this will be the best business
day for a lot of businesses. Airlines, gas stations, hotels ... the list goes on.

-Ray Edwards

P.S. And don't forget the Warrior Forum is open today as well. I see lots
of advertisement on the forum and you are here.

I also received tons of discount and deals for all the tools and services. It is normal to receive such deals on Cyber monday, black friday, Christmas, etc! This js a marketing strategy I also send out my emails to my subscribers and earned about $1200+ now.

The most popular one is toys. Seems like many people are buying toys as gifts.

Most of those are likely autoresponder emails...

...written a long time ago, and sent out automatically. "Don't they know it's Christmas?" No, the autoresponder doesn't. All it knows is today is Day Seven of the series. Plink. There goes today's email.

Honestly, if you don't want to be surrounded by marketing, you should probably get out of the marketing business.

Or not check your email on holidays. Or use a different email for marketing than personal. After all, you CHOSE to give these people your personal email address...and you CHOSE to look at their emails today and CHOOSE "Offended" as your emotional response.

The number of people walking around looking to be offended makes me giggle to contemplate.

And if you don't want to receive content from these people, why are you on their lists?

I'm only on a couple, and they specifically DON'T use canned series (Hi, Declan).

'Course...I'm not desperately looking for magic bullets from deified gurus. So I have no need to be on their lists.

Pretty arrogant to think that everyone is a Christian and celebrates Christmas, or realizes the importance some of us put into it. Also, those emails you are getting are probably on an autoresponder, I am sure they are sorry there is no algorithm that would not send this information to you and offend you so much. Merry Christmas al

How are you guys earning today? I believe here are all PRO Internet marketers!

Well Bah-Humbug! Lol. Quit being such a Scrooge, not everybody celebrates Christmas. You have to realize money never sleeps (even on Christmas day.) Happy Holidays!

I also got a lot ...First wish Merry christmas..than scroll down..standard selling a product

I have a inbox just for big box retailors... I would say that any and every one that I know I regularly get messages from sent an e-mail today. One being so bold to have in the head line, "Didn't get what you wanted this year?"

Some top marketers who I am subscribed to emailed me yesterday with holiday wishes. None of them actually emailed today.

Those who email today are usually newbies but you may have been on their automatic sequence so that is why they emailed you.

Hi Charlie,

Honestly, I used to not like it either until I understood that a lot of them are from autoresponders, as both Jason and Kay already pointed out.

I've also cleaned my list of subscriptions and rerouted most of them to a second email address a couple years ago, as Jason suggested.

Finally, most of the handful of emails I received today were just saying "Merry Christmas", but of those that were selling something, the offers were fantastic!

You must try not to take things too personally in this industry. Not everyone is going to think like you or I do. Yes, you can unsubscribe from their list, but in the long run you may be hurting yourself more than them, especially if one or more of these people are teaching you things that will help you reach your goals.

Note: Unless someone IS teaching you things that will help you reach your goals, you shouldn't be on their list in the first place, right?

Try to look past it, smile and have a Merry Christmas! :-)

Best,

Joe

Marry Christmas!
i'm new here and hope to know more about internet marketing !
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They should be emailing you with Free WSO products as a gift

Life's way too short to waste a nano-second of it giving a damn about
something as inconsequential as an email from someone you don't
know and will likely never meet.

People who are offended by such things are just waking up looking
for something to be offended by. Priorities, people... seriously.

I agree that sending affiliate offers to your email list on christmas day is a bit over the top. Christmas day is a day to relax with family and have fun, not to be bombarded with affiliate offers. What i do is wish all my subscribers a merry christmas and a happy new year on this day.

The day you receive my follow-ups will depend entirely on the day you opt-in. If you opted-in yesterday, you will get email from me today.

I don't feel the least bit "desperate or greedy or sad."

What a life...

To be honest ,there was no need for a post like this ,either you unsubscribe or continue to get the emails thats the name of this game ,All these emails are from autoresponders

Anyways Merry Christmas and happy holidays
Chyanit

I did get a few emails today and opened a couple. One of the biggest brands I aware of mailed today and I read the whole thing. I actually enjoy seeing the case studies and of course there will be a join button at the bottom. Unsubscribe? Hell no!

YouTube played an ad on Christmas when I was trying to watch a video, I'll never use them again, same for Hulu and the radio station in my car... Pandora played an ad while I was listening to Christmas music, I will never listen to it again...

Seriously man, listen to yourself, doesn't sound like your cut out for business...

People don't turn off autoresponders and not everyone celebrates Christmas.

So what's the point of the rant?

I mailed my list yesterday. I did exceptionally well and had an above average day in sales. Should I have just left that money on the table because it's a holiday? My answer is no. Many major retail companies are open on Christmas Day and all the other holidays. Why shouldn't my business be open?

I also made sure to wish my list happy holidays, of course. I had hardly any unsubscribes so I don't think anyone minded. If I do ending up losing a few subscribers over that then so be it.

To give people some credit, some are likely scheduled and some are in different time zones.
Either way, I'm not sure why anyone would try to push anything on Christmas, just seems like bad timing

Oh HumBug!!! There is one in every crowd.

You sound like Ebinezer Scrooge, from the book "the Christmas carol". Baaa Humbug!!!!

I just want to say you need to calm down and enjoy your holidays while others go on their business. All can be understood.

I am not really into Christmas and I am not religious. However, I totally get what you mean.

I think there is something pathetic about using Christmas to promote your stuff. It shows a lack of respect and I would certainly consider this as unprofessional behavior.

I run several companies, I have been in business offline and online for over 25 years. We send a Merry Christmas email to the companies we already have a business relationship with to thank them for their support. These emails are personal, sincere and we make sure we don't promote anything in these emails. Also we send these emails a couple of days before Christmas on a work day.

Think about this Charlie, most of the replies to your OP disagree with you but perhaps many of those who did not reply understand what you mean and agree with you.

It depends on your product niche, blackfriday always works better than christmas for me

A couple of points I would like to add...

Firstly, what type of nonsense is this...?
When people join many of my free lead lists, there is an AR sequence set up to introduce both me and my products to them. I don't think that there is anything in Aweber that allows me to stipulate that those mails do not go out on holidays for all of the world's major religions.

...And why would those offers go "out of date"?

Secondly, I think it is the receiver rather than the sender making an error here. Personally, I did not even check any of my business emails from Christmas Eve until the day after Boxing Day. Didn't even open the folders. I was on holiday.

I checked only my personal emails over the holiday.

Oh...and I did send a message out to my subscribers on Christmas day. It contained no links or offers, just a message wishing them a happy holiday if, indeed, they were celebrating one. I actually like my subscribers and customers and see no reason why I should not extend the same courtesies as I do to friends & other business acquaintances.

I saw yesterday that many people had hit reply and sent good wishes back to my family & I

Lastly, I noticed that I had over $200 worth of sales on Christmas Day even though I was not promoting anything at all... So not everyone is knee deep in turkeys and mince pies, obviously.

Actually the Christmas is a religious festival for the Christan Only. So the other religious People will no celebrate this day. So the people of other religion view's may work on this day, if they want. Thanks

I can't help but notice you opened your business email on Christmas day. Why?

Don't you know, we marketers, ever so thoughtful and caring about you sent you messages on Christmas day so you'd have them at the ready the first business day after Christmas?

Why do you go make a faux pas and blame it on us?

Do you not control when you read email messages?

If Christmas is such a Holly day for you, why on earth are you working? Reading email messages? Posting here on Christmas Day about email messages? You did noticed you started your thread on Christmas day, right?

Are you going to unsubscribe from yourself too?

I sent out a carefully-crafted email blast on Christmas and it was one of my most engaged emails all year.

Bear in mind I wasn't promoting anything directly, but still.

I'd hope anyone that threw a temper tantrum over it would unsubscribe because those aren't the type of people I want as subscribers anyway.

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