What Makes You Click Unsubscribe

With most email lists, if I'm not interested, I often just won't open the emails anymore, and they'll go unread into my archive.

However, there is one type of email promotion that peeves me off so much that I unsubscribe never to return.

The case where this happens is when the list owner is recommending an affiliate product for multiple emails in a row. The worst I've seen it was when someone was promoting an affiliate or JV offer for ten emails in a row. It got really annoying since I wasn't interested in his JV partner.

I guess that's a potential risk to pushing a JV partner for a launch. I liked the emails concerning my list-owner's product, but it got too irritating hearing about the other guy.

However, if a list-owner emails me just one message about an affiliate product he recommends, that never bothers me, as long as it isn't a different affiliate product every week.

--Dan

Yep...I click unsubscribe when I start receiving 2-3 emails a day from the same marketer and all they do is copy/paste an affiliate product email into their auto responder. Theres nothing wrong with this but whatever happened to providing GOOD content as well and building a relationship with your list

Too many emails that are pitches and not content. Or, even giving away "free" stuff (as in recommendations to other people's products that you can "get free for an email address" which ALSO ends up in pitch after pitch), OR "one time offers" after submitting.

Yeah, I know, that's the nature of the net, but when it is happening in almost every email that hits you, it gets a little annoying :p

I have absolutely no problem with a person emailing me even daily, if they provide something informative... but just to pitch another product or affiliate link, even if it IS related to something I've bought from the person sending the emails.

Remember that, (and even when the content is good), sometimes we are SO overloaded with emails from many marketers, you have to stand out to be different, to get people wanting to stay.

That's all it takes.

I don't sign up to any mailing lists... ever! I used to. Being on a list is what newbies do

I unsubscribe from any list where I get an e-mail with the title "RE: Subject Here" when I know that it isn't actually a reply to anything.

It's a lame and feeble way to get attention - and it doesn't work. So why would I want to read anything that someone using that type of technique would say?

I would agree with Hamish on this one. The biggest thing that gets me to unsubscribe is when they can not even get the simple formatting right. These kind of things are good lessons on how not to treat your list. I do give away freebies for joining my list, however I have even yet to send out an email to them hocking an affiliate product. I would rather earn their trust through content, etc and be able to earn more on a high ticket item, or with having more authority by not email bombing them.

I don't unsubscribe often, but when I do it's usually because of:

* Tricky subjects like "Payment Notification" or "Urgent! Personal Matter..."
* Too many promotional emails with no content
* Political or religious stuff (I personally hate seeing this in business emails)

Other than that, I'm usually okay with most stuff.

Misleading subject line. You lie to me to get me to open the email, I'm gone.

I am 90% of the lists I'm on because I wanted to be there. You don't have to lie to me to get me to open.

There are loads of reason why I unsubscribe. One of the main reasons are, usually I dont know who they are or forgot who that person was. I usually prefer taking advice from someone who already has credibilty.

When I get multiple email messages a day from the same person, no matter what the content, I get aggravated and unsubscribe. Tell me what you have to say in one per day, max, please.

I agree with some of the other folks up above - sell to me too much, and I'm gone. I think we ALL expect some sort of sales pitch (after all, that's the whole point of having a list!). However, you had better give me something of value to go along with it.

Affiliate offers no question.

If you can't at least take the time to give me some good information, I say the heck with you, don't clutter up my inbox.

I usually always unsubcribe if I start getting more than one or two emails a week.

If a marketer starts promoting products that seem sleazy to me, I will go ahead and unsubscribe also.

If I don't trust the marketer i.e. they promote every single product under the sun, I don't want them clogging up my inbox.

Here's about 100 comments on this very topic from just a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...subscribe.html

There must be something in the air... LOL Maybe it's fall (email) cleaning....


Best,
Robin

The most egregious emails are the ones where they send repeated copy-paste emails for the same product (usually a big launch). Those are really annoying, at the very least they should have the creativity to either write something themselves or pay a copywriter to do so!

I click on unsubscribe button when I see:

- anyone I don't recognize
- 1st email promoting affiliate products
- nothing but rehashed garbage

Joe

But I do keep every email I receive from people who are marketing successfully so that I can study them and apply to my own email marketing tactics. It is really handy if you want to promote a certain product and have no idea what it's like, especially the big launch products. You can just study every email you receive from "gurus" how they market the same products. It's really a FREE lesson.

Joe

This thread is the exact reason why I diverged my sales funnel(s) from my newsletter...to keep from flooding inboxes.

At the end of the sales funnel, in the last few emails, I put tempting offers to get funnel subscribers to jump to the newsletter which consistently has legit content and ads mixed together, because getting more than one two offers a week outside of the initial sales funnel(s)/course(s) is irritating I am sure.

I really only use one email address and like to keep it clean and spam free. I follow two Guru's just to see what they are promoting. Pretty much everybody else get unsubscribed. Following a list(s) takes you away from building assets, but you can learn from some.

No good INFO JUST BUY MY PRODUCT! It's horrible salesman ship!

Unsubscribe right away.

I have been unsubscribing left and right from a lot of lists recently.
My top reasons to unsubscribe are:

1. Countdown spam. As the emails promoting the same affiliate offer everyday were not bad enough, some marketers took it to the next level spamming my inbox every hour. I hate those countdown style spam emails 'hurry! 2 hours left! '30 minutes left!' 'closing in 10 minutes' '30 seconds left, this si your last chance!'

2. Deceptive subjects insulting my intelligence. Anything that falsifies stuff like 'your first clickbank sale', 'Re: you received a paypal payment', 'Your $50 commission', 'confirmation: your $47 order', 'Re: Your Clickbank purchase' -you get the picture. This is retarded as hell and no one needs it. Even a 5 year old can come up with more interesting subject lines than that.

3. Promoting crap products: It's sad to see so many well respected names out there going out of their way to promote complete scam products like the latest facebook TOS violator script or the twitter spam launches. Promoting ancient methods from 2006 as some brand new system ain't cool. If you have such a shortage of decent products, let me know, I can tell you where to find some good PLR's to rehash (at least they are new!) For crying out loud, why do they have to promote the crappiest stuff is beyond my comprehension. has there been a mass exodus of decent product creators I don't know about?

4. No content, all affiliate pitches, mystery meat garbage: I don't mind mostly pitch kind of emails so long as it's pitching good quality stuff. I stick with the marketers who pitch their own products and fully disclose the nature of the products they are pitching. No mystery meat whatsoever (like those recent big launches). If it's CPA, they say it. If it's article marketing, they say it. No unknown mystery BS.

5. Pathetic attention fiend behavior: Constantly mailing out wrong stuff (I am not talking about the occasional honest mistakes here) to inflate their open rate. They send out stuff and deliberately put broken link or wrong info, then they send out another one correcting it. I have seen a pattern of this with different marketers. If your open rates suck, then come up with better copy or hire a copywriter instead of wasting people's time!

6. Churn & burn marketing: General disrespect to subscribers and outrageous spamming behavior. These guys don't give a rat's arse about their subscribers, they keep whoring out their list to everyone in town, spamming every waking hour, then they dish out tons of cash to buy solo ads, run PPC campaigns and whatnot to replace the thousands of defectors with fresh new leads. These reckless sleazebags are ruining the list building for everyone. They are the reason why building sustainable income as a clickbank affiliate is now harder than opening a brick & mortar store. This is why it's getting more and more difficult & time consuming (not to mention EXPENSIVE) to build a list for beginners/newbies out there. You have to give people serious incentives to sign up in your list these days unless you are in some obscure virgin niches.

The only email list that I unsubscribed to was one where he person would have an automated machine call my cell phone once a week to remind me about the webinar that was taking place. It got really annoying.

When I have all their info already and my knowledge has already exceeded the things that they are sharing. Nothing new to me. No value. Always trying to sell something first before earning my trust. Sending me emails each day. Ad swaping me around, makes me feel used and abused. And sometimes I just unsubscribe cause I don't want to be a sucker forever on their list. Anyone that I feel is dishonest and unethical who treats me like I'm just another dollar on their list. It would also help if they actually reply back to your email. People that always hype up their email talking about secret this secret that. Secret my A$$ there is no secret only information that I don't know yet. The only secret is the name of your writers, your VA's, your bank account, and your actual system that you use to make money.. ( no one shares their exact money making system ) and if they claim they do on the sales page.. It's not their exact system it's just an overview of what to do to make money.. Not what they do to make money.

I;m building a pretty good swipe file so I don't unsubscribe from much, but when I do it's for a lot of the reasons listed above (too much noise, every offer under the sun), but condescending copy also does it for me. I will leave a list if the author sounds like a snakeoil salesman most of the time.

Usually what makes me unsub is either I have unintentionally subscribed to two lists of the same name and person(Like a customers list for a product, and a list for another offer they had an optin with) But I have also unsubbed if I don't follow them anymore, they email too much(Even if it's good content) or if I am just a lead on too many others.

Thanks for your feedback. I will use some of this in an article I am putting together on How to treat your most important asset with respect. Thanks for your feedback

Here's a good one I saw today.

- Subject line was about claiming my (nonexistent) check.
- Lots of blank lines before the mandatory footer with unsubscribe link.
- Said unsubscribe link was labeled "Modifier votre inscription" - oh, sorry, don't you speak French? Well, now you know at least enough French to unsubscribe from the lists that do this.

Subject line & actual email donot mtach - unsubscribe
Guru promoting a product every week - unsubscribe
Series of emails from different gurus promoting same product on a particular day - unsubscribe ASAP!

That's me

Dennis

Misleading headlines every time. I'm so tired of those. I don't care how magnificent your the product you are recommending is. If you feel you have to mislead me to have me open your email, I unsubscribe. I also hate hype for products especially the doomsday ones "If you don't buy XYZ you will never make it as an internet marketer."

I absolutely detest misleading subject lines that "trick" you into opening. I received one today that said "Late Payment Notice" and it made my heart skip a beat. When I opened it it was an IM pitch about the latest greatest product that will supposedly prevent the subject lines like the one received from ever appearing in my email box. Oh really, THIS one made it in. Aaargh! Might be clever and get you to open but the sender has completely lost my trust . . . No thought at all . . . UNSUBSCRIBE!

Guys, don't click unsubscribe from email that you don't recognize, or you know are clearly spam. Those links are usually not actual unsubscribe links, and you are likely verifying that yours is a valid email address to be sent/sold to other spammers. Just delete those. Only unsubscribe for lists you know that you have joined.

I will unsubscribe if I am emailed with nothing but promotional stuff, especially when it's completely unrelated to the reason I joined their list. The more often they email me with that stuff, the more likely I will unsubscribe. I stay on lists of marketers that I respect, and that provide good information in their emails. And typically, when those marketers do promote things, they provide first hand working knowledge of the product or information they are promoting, which is usually, at least somewhat, related to the reason you joined their list in the first place.

I don't unsubscribe very much but sometimes you just have to. I got one this morning telling me my friend had suggested I join a particular club. They were gone in a flash.

Some of the weird subject lines - i just never open and if I see the same person sending the same thing - sorry but you have to go.

People who recommend obvious crap without knowing squat about the product as well as those who never add value. The other thing is the "my good friend" line. An obvious cut and paste of a JV template is another.

One that got me when I was new to Im was purchasing a wso, and signing up to a hosting company recommended by the warrior in his ebook, soon to find out that hosting company was actually his. This didn't bother me, sounds like a reasonable way to earn some more beer tokens. What peeved me was I started receiving emails for Clickbank products from the warrior about "earn billions in minutes" and then 10 minutes later I'd receive the same email from hostadmin@thehostingcompany.com.

I don't mind getting this sort of marketing from his personal making list but I signed up for hosting and I don't want marketing junk from the hosts as well. I soon cancelled the hosting package for this reason. I was just doubled up with the same emails

What I later noticed was the testimonials on the hosting company were from the site owner. Hehe

Nowadays I'm pretty selective with who's list I subscribe to. If a rogue does slip through then emailing me more than once a week will soon see them leaving my contact list!

C

Just bout anything that makes me wanna say tl;dr

Hahaha, but seriously, when I get like hundreds of e-mails from the same person and all of them are just affiliate offers it gets so annoying. Like I think, "wait, wasn't the last e-mail the best product ever? and now this one says that as well?"

definitely what has made me recently on two occasions has been:

1. those email subject lines that make it look like it's either a reply from a message board or a payment of some kind (and i've seen top marketers use this approach).

2. i've had a marketer i use to respect spend virtually daily emails about the same program over and over again and i've even replied on two occasions saying stop over promoting over hyping the same program on a daily basis and i didn't even get a reply.

regards

colleen