Thank You, Here Is Your Download Link

by mikeyman120

Posted: 14 years ago 19 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hello All,
I subscribe to an awful lot of other marketers and gurus newsletters. I use one email address for all of them. So I am also always subscribing to new newsletters. I have just noticed a trend of marketers saying in their subject line - "Thank you, Here is your download link". At first I thought it was something I signed up for the first time I saw this but it wasn't. Then it happened again and it wasn't something I requested it was just another email.

I have gotten 5 of these emails now. It seems to be the new trend to get you to open the email like when someone sends an email with RE: in the subject it tends to make you thimk it is a reply to one of your emails.

Is anyone else noticing this? And does it seem like a cheesy move just to get someone open an email? Or is it clever marketing?

Mike

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bhopkins 14 years ago

It depends is there actually a download link in the email? I've noticed a lot of new tricks to get people to open the mails.
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- mikeyman120 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by bhopkins
  
  It depends is there actually a download link in the email? I've noticed a lot of new tricks to get people to open the mails.
  
  No, no download link in them.
  
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  bhopkins 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mikeyman120
  
  No, no download link in them.
  
  Mike
  
  Then I would agree that this is cheesy. I give away stuff all the time to me lists so I may do this sometimes, but there is always a link in the mail. Most of the time I won't even send them to a OTO after getting the freebie as I believe the more you can help someone the more loyal they will be and in the end you will make more money than just trying to use sneaky tactics
  
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tecHead 14 years ago

Yeah, I've seen it and think its very cheesy.

Then again; this technique and any other version of the rubber neck technique of marketing (to me) is cheesy, misleading and bit over the top. But, I'm a programmer and think a lot of techniques employed by "marketers" are a little cheesy.

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Spinethetic 14 years ago

I use a few variations of this subject line where I give them a direct download link right there in the email after explaining and prepping them for what it is that I'am about to give them.

I don't use it very often though because I dont want my list to expect me to give them stuff for free all the time, I am in this market to make money; but I do definitely see the potential for abuse here, even though as of now it works pretty well to boost open rates ... until of course every list subscriber on the face of the earth starts getting 3 to 4 of them a day and the technique just becomes as worn out and stale as a 50 year old toothless prostitute ... but i digress :-P

I find that using similiar subject lines 2 or 3 times in a 7 day period helps help develop 'mini sales funnels' as I like to call them, prepping and teasing them with information directly relevant to a coming sales email. When I set it up like this I can expect pretty good open rates, usually between 35-60 %, thus ensuring maximum return on my sales page.
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Sumit Menon

14 years ago

Yeah.. It's Reed Floren! The email is usually about a giveaway launch! I got fed up and unsubscribed from his list.

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Spinethetic

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sumit_Menon

Yeah.. It's Reed Floren! The email is usually about a giveaway launch! I got fed up and unsubscribed from his list.

I usually don't point out specific marketers, but in this case I must second your thoughts here. Most of his giveaways all contain the same friggin bad quality products, nothing really original. I may join a couple here and there that have nice graphic design because I know it may attract a lot of members and I just offer up my own original ebook or something and you'ld be surprised how many subscribers you may get since everyone else is offering the same thing, from one giveaway to the next.

I don't have much respect for marketers who have a philosophy of just puking on the wall and seeing what sticks.

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Sumit Menon

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Spinethetic

I discovered that I was joined to 11 more sites to his! (I used to be a giveaway junkie).

And just whilst we were talking:

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Ok.. So, this time he didn't use Download Link. But this one works the same.

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- KonaGirl 14 years ago
  
  I unsubscribed from all of his crap a long time ago and now he's spamming me on Facebook. I think I'm going to have to block him there too.
  
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- Sumit Menon 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Alexa Smith
  
  Are you sure it's not just "RE: Ed Floren"?
  
  Maybe it's just another way of writing it!
  
  ReSumit. :p
  
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kennethtang 14 years ago

Hehehe...

I was wondering when someone would bring this up. Yep, got a TON of those -- with real download links. They served only to point out to me who among those I've subscribed to are mere "followers" and lack imagination. And I usually unsub from them.
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Lambert Klein 14 years ago

I think most people would unsubcribe one away.
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kennethtang 14 years ago

I got "thank-you's" from a whole lot of marketers promoting a whole bunch of products, not just any one individual.
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iw433 14 years ago

I guess we all know what subject line NOT to use.
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desmond11 14 years ago

I think these type of subject lines are cheesy when everyone's doing it. If Reed was one of the first and it worked, Power to him I say.....
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- Lambert Klein 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by desmond11
  
  I think these type of subject lines are cheesy when everyone's doing it. If Reed was one of the first and it worked, Power to him I say.....
  
  JEEZ
  
  That's sad.
  
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Chris Parker 14 years ago

Yeah, I was getting those...I unsubscribed after the fourth one!
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Micheal Perkins 14 years ago

I've seen a few also. All of mine have come from Reed Floren also.
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