Soooo much email - Who to Follow.... Who to Trust?

by NetworxNZ

Posted: 15 years ago 16 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I've just reached yet another milestone, that being just over 2000 unopened mail messages in my primary email inbox (and I have many) - so it's time for some rationalization and simplification.... being constantly bombarded by email was one of the reasons I left my corporate role in the first place right.... :-)

So then I say to myself - well - who really do I believe is worthy of following?
Who does bring value in every / most of the material they send me?

I started with a core follow list of gurus but overtime this has grown and now many just seem to be pitching whatever "new" product is coming out....

What does everyone here do in terms of choosing who to follow?

My fav's are;

Ken McCarthy - systemseminar
Perry Marshall - adwords guru
Mark Ling - fellow kiwi and affilorama fame
Frank Kern - but now I'm a little grey on this as well....

So you see the problem - keen to hear what are the best mail lists to be on - I want to relegate the rest to "file X"

Darren

#email #follow #trust

Rich Struck 15 years ago

Unsubscribe from all of them.
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- Jagged 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Rich Struck
  
  Unsubscribe from all of them.
  
  I'm with Rich on this one...unsubscribe from all of them.
  
  I've been a subscriber of all of those mentioned for a long time...Did I learn anything...sure, but after some "self analysis"... I found I was learning more from others...such as Paul Myers newletter....Kevin Rileys product creation newsletter....John Taylor's blog.....so I dumped everyone but a handful.
  I'm turning more to reading blogs than signing up to endless lists...
  
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Globe_Trotter13 15 years ago

I agree with you Darren, it is not easy when you receive a few hundreds to a few thousands of those emails a day. Nowadays, I just delete them all.

The email lists I like receiving info on are the following:

Yanik Silver - this guy knows his stuff!
Mike Dillard - anyone into network marketing has to listen to what he has to say.

These are the main ones to come to mind. I am sure there are others, depending on what one is focused on.
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CDarklock 15 years ago

Originally Posted by NetworxNZ

I've just reached yet another milestone, that being just over 2000 unopened mail messages in my primary email inbox (and I have many)

Amateur. I've got 13,913.

On the bright side, I've only gotten 27,090 spam mails in the last thirty days, which means more than a third of the email I get is actually wanted!

See, it's all in how you look at things.
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rob6188 15 years ago

I actually like Alex Albert. Despite getting tons of things I'm not interested in, I do get a little gold nugget once in a while, and he never charges much.

I subscribe to most of the ones mentioned above, and do read a few when the subject hits on something I'm working on. But I also delete tons daily, especially when they are all offering the same thing.

The ones I really take to heart are from those that I have a paid membership with.
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xc-mikey 15 years ago

I'm at about 10,000. I keep them to see who follows who, and where there is a trend. You can always read one or two if you're stuck for writing copy. Some have compelling language in them.
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- Yudi 15 years ago
  
  The ONLY 'guru' who's emails I read every single time are Perry Marshall. There's just so much gold in everything he says.
  
  I'm slowly unsubscribing from everyone else.
  
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  mikeyman120 15 years ago
  
  I'm on many lists. I want to see what the gurus are up to and learn all I can from their free info. Also I learn how they do their email marketing so I can get ideas for myself. I use a special email address just for the internet marketing lists I'm on.
  
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morry 15 years ago

Mark Ling is definitely a guy you want to follow. I subscribe to a few others but mostly just to see how they do things and I'm not really impressed by too many people. The best are the guys who preach "give value" and only ever send out blatant sales pitches

I don't think unsubscribing is the best thing to do as it's one way I keep my finger on the pulse of the IM world. But if you're addicted to buying stuff and never using it, then it's probably not worth your time being on 100 lists of people who will only ever sell stuff.

Sean
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- Pnigro 15 years ago
  
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Gusm 15 years ago

Hi Darren,
I agree, it's so easy to end up spending ALL available time just sorting through them, instead of really accomplishing anything.
Perry Marshall is defintely good. I've recently heard/met Mark Ling. I'm very interested in how you have found him to be. (Another successful Kiwi!)

Alot of the rest just seem to promote each other's products, one after the other, round in circles!

Cheers,
Gus
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- W.P. Allen 15 years ago
  
  Quit reading your emails and get to work.
  
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wisecrone333 15 years ago

I feel I have a similar problem and I only wake up to about 700 emails over two accounts in the morning - I have this silly idea that if I do unsubscribe I might miss some great new tool, or some new idea, although the longer I keep at this the more often I am seeing the same band of affiliates promoting the same new products - at leasat their similarities in subject lines cuts down the number of emails I actually read. I do like the emails from Tiffany Dow though, so I would keep hers and a couple of others, but when I tally up the amount of time I spend on emails I could be using that time to create a new product.

I agree with the others - unsubscribe, or have an email account for those emails so that you only have to go into it once a week or something similar.

Best wishes
Lisa
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- barbling 15 years ago
  
  I never unsubscribe from lists; I figure the copy they send are gold for my swipe files.
  
  What I do is create folders in my inbox and then set up filter rules if I want emails to automatically be separated into the proper categories. That way, I receive the FULL autoresponder sequence...and that can be precious beyond belief for when I devise my own.
  
  Regarding on finding who to trust, trust those who have walked the walk they talk. I write a lot about that in my prelaunch of Income Fitness.
  
  Everything in life is a learning lesson. View marketing emails the same way. It can work wonders for sparking your own creativity.
  
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  drmani 15 years ago
  
  Who to Follow.... Who to Trust?
  
  Keep the ones that are useful TO YOU.
  
  Cancel the ones that are NOT.
  
  Understand that this dynamic WILL keep on changing -
  for as long as you want to keep learning!
  
  As for 'trust', if they don't let you down, trust them!
  
  When they do...
  
  All success
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