Marketing Pretenders

I think I got the same email you're talking about. I got 5 or 6 emails with the exact same subject line. I got many of them around the same time too because they were mostly one right under the other in my inbox. At least that made it easier to check each box one by one and click the delete button.

I don't mind being marketed to but I do think it would be a good idea to come up with an original subject line. The marketers sending out these emails should realize that many of the people on their lists are also on several other lists and will be seeing that same offer. Whenever I get a bunch of the exact same subject I just delete them all without even opening the email.

I go farther - I unsubscribe from all of them. Go be a clone on someone else's email address. Actually, since I began doing that, I seldom get such emails at all!

Maybe the truth hurts.

Sorry - but if you can't come up with your own spin to sell a product, you're toast.

I wonder why people would bother to build a mailing list and send out what amounts to "plr emails" to them.

The reason emails are provided is give affiliates something to send out because so many would just freeze up at the thought of having to write their own. That doesn't mean using them is a good idea.

kay

Ladyjems:

Welcome to the forum.

We all know the product owner gave out the email for affiliates to use. That's not the issue.

This is not "proven converting email copy" - the product owner sent the same email given to the affiliates, almost simultaneously. Whether it is proven to do anything requires the test of time.

The issue is a marketing lesson. When it is released (again, nothing yet has been sold to determine conversion rates), I believe this is a $3000 product with a $1500 commission.

By being cheap and lazy, and spending 5 seconds copying and pasting an email, blindly hoping someone on their list buys the product, a bunch of 'marketers' are showing, at least IMHO, that they are not marketers. Whores. Pimps. Idiots. Misguided pseudo-marketers. Spammers. Make up your own reference if you're offended.

The point being - why should I stay on their list? Why should I trust their recommendations? They are not making a recommendation.

There's a huge difference between the marketers who provide useful information to their list about new products and services. Giving them an honest and personal evaluation. And there's the fake marketers.

Emails like this are given to affiliates to give them a starting point. (I've done it myself with my own affiliates). However I always suggested to them that they change the email and personalise it to themselves. Not doing so IMHO shows contempt for the people we're marketing to.

None of us (well mostly anyway) are stupid, the IM niche is a relatively narrow one so if folks are going to get the same email from various marketer's then yes they are going to be disgruntled.

Kim

But does it work Lance, I usually found those affiliates selling my stuff who didn't make changes to the generic email I gave them sold less products.

It's all a numbers game. A sales message with a 2% conversion rate fails to connect with 98%.

So you don't like the cookie cutter affiliate promotions (I don't care much for them either). Well, you're (we're) in the "98%" category.

But how can you call someone an idiot, pretender, or anything else without seeing their metrics and knowing their level of profitability.

As long as it works for them and they want to run their business that way, what concern is it of anybody else? The consequences (whether real or imagined) their actions have on their business are irrelevant to me. It's their business.

Has anybody ranting in this thread done a split test with their own list using a cookie cutter message compared to a unique one? What were your results?