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If You are doing any email marketing you need to add this to your messages

by netwiseprofits
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Hey guys/gals most if not all of us are doing some type of email marketing and with the new changes from the FTC you need to update your email messages.

You need to add a disclaimer if you are are selling affiliate products. Here is a disclaimer you could use:

*The sender of this email receives compensation
when products and services featured herein are
purchased. Results are unique. Your results will
vary. This is an advertisement.


Here is a little trick or tip if you will. At the end of your message do a hard return for about 10 or 12 lines then place a period, this lengthens your message. Now place this disclaimer after the period.

Before anyone thinks this is evasive your wrong. All my messages (before) the FTC change have this hard return period trick.

Why?

Many if not all auto responders place an unsubscribe link very close to the end of every message, so to avoid people accidentally unsubscribing I added this hard return period so the unsubscribe link is pushed down and out of the way.

Have a great holiday
Leo
#add #email #marketing #messages
  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    Thanks for this information I will make the changes right away for my campaigns.
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    • Profile picture of the author ExRat
      Hi,

      Many if not all auto responders place an unsubscribe link very close to the end of every message, so to avoid people accidentally unsubscribing I added this hard return period so the unsubscribe link is pushed down and out of the way.
      I always look for the unsubscribe link on any list I sign up for.

      If the emails aren't too useful and the decision whether to unsubscribe or not is being considered, I've often been tipped over the edge by something like this, which I view as a tacky, cheap trick designed to enable spamming of those who would like to unsubscribe, but aren't experienced enough to know to scroll down.

      Also, with those people, you might be exchanging a simple unsubscribe for an email reported as spam or sent to the spam bin, as the receiver might think that there is no other way of stopping the emails.

      I realise that you say it is done for more honest reasons, but I never view it that way. It's the same as someone sending you to a url to log in to a membership to unsubscribe, but deliberately mis-spelling the url to send you to a parked page - tacky.

      Much better to just send content that makes people want to buy from you, and not unsubscribe - no need to hide the link then.
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  • Profile picture of the author SuiteJ
    so to avoid people accidentally unsubscribing
    Do people really "accidentally unsubscribe"? I've never clicked the unsubscribe link at the end of an email, and then accidentally clicked again to confirm the "yes I would like to unsubscribe" message on the following page.

    If you want to push it down, push it down, but don't pretend you're doing the subscriber "a favor". lol

    But thanks for the disclaimer swipe. Appreciate it.

    Cheers
    Jay
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    • Profile picture of the author petedw
      Disclaimer will come in handy to many on this forum. Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author netwiseprofits
      Originally Posted by SuiteJ View Post


      If you want to push it down, push it down, but don't pretend you're doing the subscriber "a favor". lol

      But thanks for the disclaimer swipe. Appreciate it.

      Cheers
      Jay

      Your welcome Jay.

      As for the accidental unsubscribe, it happens more then you may relize, I never claimed to be doing anyone a favor.

      I have one list of over 180,000 and growing by 2000 a month, and I have gotten many people emailing me saying they unsubscribed when they did not want to. I find it's because people are clearing out their email lists they are on.

      Yep I tell them just subscribe again and you'll be good to go. But the trouble with that is they end up at the beginning of my auto-responder series, so I manually put them back in and start them where they left off (if I can), if not well they start at square one again.

      Hey I'll be blunt people make mistakes, and honestly people can be idiots (hell I include myself in that statement)

      So I decided to reduce the problem and it works. This is a solution for me and I thought I would pass it on, no worries if it is not your cup of tea, but hey what works for me may not work for everyone.

      And in the grand scheme of things what works for me and makes me money, that's what counts.
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  • Profile picture of the author promoga
    Nice idea man
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