This Email Subject Line Made Me Unsubscribe Right Away! Would You Do The Same??

Of course. I only stay on lists written by intelligent marketers.

I got one of those in my junk mail folder. It's called spam, and I wouldn't click any links found in those emails if my life depended on it.

Absolutely,

Either that or the "Notification Of Instant Payment Received" emails. Those things are instant unsubscribes.

Kevin

I can see why marketers would have these subject lines and I believe a few years ago a very well known marketer used something similair AND he advised others to do so in a course. His name escapes me but that is probably the reason people are still doing it now.

I would unsubscribe personally but the method must work whatever our thoughts... or people would stop using it.

False hope = unsubscribe

Many people force you to open your email to sell you dreams.
Too much of that BS already.
Its so easy to spot.
If you have a great relationship or reputation, one shouldn't be forced to open emails. People will WANT to open your emails.
Its a smart decision that you opted out because thats one less money beggar in your inbox.

I made a similar thread like this a month back... I keep getting these emails a lot.. that say you got an affiliate sale. People I read even send out these emails so I just ignore those types of emails

I got this same email from a support address I just hit unsub immediately

It truly amazes me that people stoop to this level
-Will

Happened to me today too.
That's what I call taking things too far!

Lol guess this is a common thing I got about 10 of them today-so guess alot of marketers are using it-I didn't actually see what it was as I deleted it right away myself.

Yeah, what an incredibly stupid headline.

That's what happens when you don't think a single step beyond getting the e-mail opened, I guess.

I got that exact same email today. I was going to unsubscribe but there was no unsubscribe option. Plus it went further and put the word support in the subject line.

Support for what? SPAM?

They just guaranteed that I will never buy anything from them ever!

I have never gotten an email like this, but I have been unsubscribing from lists like crazy lately.. it's just people sending me the same old junk over and over..

I have gotten similar emails, but most of mine have come from having my list sold to a third party. Very dissapointing when you sign up for a software,service, etc. that the people you follow rave about only to have your list sold to a third party. In the end it told me that my 'IM leaders' were a little too interested in their bottom line and I wound up unsubscribing from everything.

Its sad but I think it actually works, because a lot of top marketers are doing the exact same thing, they are copy and pasting these emails from the products affiliate resource page... it seems they are more worried about getting the click through than the conversion...

Email marketing has been taken too far. Most of it is automated which takes out the personal effect that email, by virtue of its name 'mail' should have.
You really can get the information you seek without opting into all of these lists. Their (marketers) way is NOT the only way.

I know a person who knows this marketer who uses this method, and they claim that he converted 8% of that email he sent,(his list is 15,000+ to) with that misleading title.. I would think people would run from that as soon as they seen the title..

I got that same email believe it or not (in my junk folder). For the record, my legitimate sales notifications from ClickBank never go in the spam folder.

I have never checked emails from this marketer before and don't know why I was even on the list, but as soon as I saw the headline AND who it was from (obviously not from ClickBank) I opened it for the sole purpose of un-subscribing. (I did not read the email and scrolled straight to un-subscribe link)

I unsubscribe from intentionally misleading emails. In fact I was pissed off that this marketer was impersonating ClickBank.

It's like your idiot neighbor knocking on your door at 6 am, and when you open, he says "I've got a great present for you." and after he's let you in, he ****s on your new Persian rug and says "now I can sell you a great carpet cleaner."

Well, maybe it's not quite like that, but it leaves the same smell.

Yes, I do unsubscribe from people sending deceptive email headlines.

But having a perverted sense of humor, I might also send an email back with the header "Payment Sent ... product not received."

Marvin

Technically, that subject line is in violation of the CAN-SPAM act, as are any subject lines indicating "notification of payment received", or "you got an affiliate sale", or anything similar indicating that you're owed some type of money, or made some type of purchase that you didn't actually make...

But, I don't expect them to stop anytime soon...

-Gary Ambrose

I hate these subject lines and I've seen a lot of them (and variations) lately... It have made me very "cold" when it comes to unsubscribing, which means I actually unsubcribe from a lot of lists I wouldn't normally have...

Definitely, as this is a fake and misleading headline that has very little to do with the content in the email.

However, since I've noticed similar titles being used a lot by marketers recently, perhaps they're tracking their email open rates and are finding such titles to be effective in getting their emails opened?

Even if their emails get opened, I doubt that the response/conversion rates would be all that great, given the misleading nature of the headlines.

I really dont like emails with that subject line. The worst thing is they go straight to my inbox and not in the spam box.

Andrea

I unsubscribed from this list right after I got the email. It left a really bad taste in my mouth.

I got the same email myself today, and promptly unsubscribed.

I'm sure that this sort of thing has been tested and tracked and converts.
(or at least someone has pretended that this has been tested, tracked and converts and given that advice in a product somewhere - lets face it, if they are dishonest enough to try and trick their subscribers in to opening an email can you really trust anything they have to say).

I think too much focus is put on owning a big list, and milking it for all it's worth. Yes, they can test and track conversions, unsubscribes and the like, but I think that somewhere along the line ethics are being shoved to the wayside.

Personally, I'd prefer to leave some money on the table and be able to look myself in the face rather than attempt to fleece every poor sod who finds their way on to my list for every penny I can.

He did get you to open the email though...If anything, he did accomplish the task of that...

Sure would.

Ranks up there with the 'You have received a $10 discount' nonsense which is always flying around.

I think the main problem is the marketers who could not care less about their list and just copy and paste the affiliate emails that are recommended by the 'magic bullet makers'!

I'm finding a lot of marketers must not care about their list, and I'm talking about well known names. I've ended up unsubscribing from almost every list due a lot to the sheer frequency that some of these people throw offers at you.

Yep, got that one too. Unsubscribed from that marketer's list in a heartbeat.

Talk about a cheap shot!

Phil G

iAdvertise4You said,
"Internet Marketing *sighs* is always aimed for the stupid, I wonder how much money internet marketers would make if they aimed for the smart."

I understand your thoughts, but the fact is, there is just more easy money to be made marketing to the "stupid" and gullible because there are so many of them out there. Now, I don't do that because I want to take pride in what I do, but for many big marketers that's not an issue.


I also understand wanting to unsubscribe from the lists of these guys. But here's why I don't: You don't have to agree with the morals or ethics of a person to learn something from them. Okay, so you won't buy a product from the person who sent you the email.

But by reading emails from dozens or even hundreds of top marketers you can learn a lot about copywriting in their emails and on their sales pages. You may not like the copy they write, but you can learn some skills from them. These people didn't build 7 figure online businesses by doing stupid things!

You can also learn about how they handle upsells, their exit capture methods, and their opt-in techniques. So I agree, I would never send someone my money that uses these email subject lines but that doesn't mean I can't learn from them and apply bits and pieces of what I learn, in an ethical way to my own marketing toolkit.

My favorite marketing story of the week was that of Ted Williams, the homeless guy with the great radio voice. His pitch, his subject line was simple:

Give me a dollar and listen to me talk for 30 seconds!

How's that for a sales pitch? He tells you what you'll get. He tells you what it costs. And 99% of his customers leave feeling they got more than their money's worth. What a gig!

--Mike

Terrible strategy!
I myself have not been in a list that sends such junk but
there are many emails with similar subject lines in my spam folder from blackhatters who
have scraped my email somehow.

Yip, I'd bin it straight away, don't be clicking on something that comes through like that if you haven't even signed up for it. Sometimes email like this can have viruses attached.

If it gets through your filters and lands in your inbox and you didn't sign up for it, HIT THE DELETE.

gmails spam filters seem to be working great for me

i get those emails in my junk folder everyday, since it's in the junk i just hit delete and forget about it

lol - yes, got that one a little while ago and "unsubscribed" immediately. I DO have a Clickbank product that doesn't make a ton of sales - so, um - yeah.

What's funny is I got a "real" sale about 15 minutes later.

I also posted a thread in here last week about the email subject line:
"Congratulations! You've just made a Sale"

- getting those a lot now too and those guys can go pound sand also.

Wow, I got that too..These poor list owners gave me laugh everyday. I always open emails with these deceptive subject lines, and click on unsubscribe, right away. Its ridiculous that they have buried the unsubscribe link very deep.

These types of emails are growing in number for the past few months..Guess some "Guru" recently sold a new product teaching "How to Increase the CTR of your Emails".. Lolz... I have unsubscribed from 100+ lists for during the past few months and still new ones are lurking in my inbox..Here's some of the subject lines, I remember..

"About your Clickbank Account.."

"Urgent: About Your ClickBank Account"

"Thanks for Buying"

"CONGRATS <name>, Your Access Link..."

"RE: Congratulations...Access has been approved"

"RE: <name>, About Your <any niche> Website.."

"Please log into your account"

"Re:Here's the info you requested"

"Thanks for your payment"

"Notification of Payment Received" <--Very Famous

"New Password Confirmation"

"Just send you $37"

"Invoice #xxxxxxx"

"Clickbank Notification: New Sale Confirmation"

"Congratulations <name>! You just made an affiliate sale!"

"Reroducts sold today"

"Wow, You just made $49"

"[URGENT] Paypal Transaction Error"

"Payment Confirmed. Please dispatch the product"

"Reayment Confirmation"

"<name>, Urgent"

"CONFIRMED: Your download link..."

"Paypal New Transaction IDxxxxx"

"Paypal payment received"

"Thanks for your Order"

"Unable to send you payment"

"[IMPORTANT UPDATE] - Accept your Payment"

"17 New Payments in Queue"


....the list goes on...

These list owners invited me to open their emails and click on 'unsubscribe'. No matter how good is the product they are offering, I'll consider these people as IM beggers, kneeing down and begging to buy a product from their link..

They lied in first place and now 'Is there any reason I should trust them?'

I actually searched for this thread. I checked my email on Tuesday and found I had a few junk emails. I went to go and delete them as I usually do, until one caught my eye. It was a notification of a CB sale. I am not on clickbank, nor have I ever been near em. How is it possible that I would receive a sale item notification?

Needless to say I deleted it without opening it, because I am painfully aware of email viruses and didn't think I should take the chance on infecting my system.

I agree that such tactics speak volumes about the character of the marketer. Can you imagine walking past a shop down the street only to have the owner come out of the doorway and pull you inside saying "Look in here - have I got a bargain for you! This is the discount of the century, blah, blah, blah," and it all turned out to be baloney? I mean, would these marketers SAY the things that are in their emails to your face?
I am also really annoyed when there IS no unsubscribe link! Or it is in a font colour so faint that it is intended for you to miss it..........

Sue

Yes I also would have unsubscribed right away. Anything remotely misleading just stinks of desperation. Nowadays I just look at the sender and delete those I don't recognise. There are a few select marketers who I will always read, regardless of what they put in their subject line.

I got several emails like that. I am really disappointed with the emails I receive lately. I used to enjoy at least looking at new products. Now I dread the notifications (that come from several sources).

Lol yes I would unsubscribe right away. And the list of unsubscribe-able subject are including: fake notification of payment receive, Re: Your username, You receive $XXX comission and so on...

Yes, I get a lot of those these days.

I never open them since my CB email is different from the email I use to subscribe to lists so I know it can't be from them.

If anyone is under the impression that the people who send these things WANT intelligent people like you guys on their lists, I think you're mistaken. You are not the target market. You are the people to be screened OUT, in order to achieve a higher concentration of suckers and marks with open wallets.

This is the reason I love gmail. I receive like 100 spam emails a day, many of them with that kind of title. I am also subscribed to some guy that uses "support" as his name and ****ty titles like "Notification of Payment" etc.

I keep only a couple of people on not-spam (my main inbox) including Daniel McGonagle. I strongly suggest you sign up for his mailing list, he's great! And almost never sends any ****.
Cheers!
Dominium

If you're as fed up with this idiotic (and illegal) behavior as I am, do something about it (besides just unsubscribing). Forward the email (including full headers) to the abuse email address for the list service (usually abuse@whateverservicename.com) as well as spam@uce.gov

Deceptive subject lines are a direct violation of the CAN-SPAM Act and reporting these violations to the mailing service does make a difference. Help clean up the world of Internet Marketing by showing these jokers that you're not going to stand for their hijinks any more.

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I'd do the same, all they try is to get your attention in a cheap way, very amaturistic.

I've been to lazy to unsubscribe. I've never actually read any of his stuff, but the funny thing is, he is still sending them. It's only been a few days since the last one.

I seem to be getting quite a few of these types of emails lately. As an attention grabber it's great but I'm turned off by it. However, judging by the number of times these emails hit my inbox I would assume that's it's paying off for somebody.

Ya that's a pretty jabroni move to send emails like that. Absolutely mindless.

yeah, and I wouldn't bother sending an email to complain. Your time is too valuable, and he will discover soon enough this is not the way to make money...when everyone else unsubscribes too!