I don't Care About My Internet Business< Is this your Message?
This is a major rant.
It may be that I will lose any potential readers before
paragraph 2.
Tough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I apologise to all the Internet marketers I have subscribed from -
this is an open letter to explain why, and to ask you why do you
bother carrying on as an Internet marketer.
I spent much of the backend of 2010 subscribing to emails
because I wanted to develop my list and I had no experience
with email campaigns.
I quickly found that most of the email letters I was receiving
were not worth opening. There were several reasons for this
1. Too many of them had the same headline.
If you are promoting a new product or an old one why would
you want to send out exactly the same message. Do you think
I am the only one that can read that ten different emails all
have the same headings. I am not likely to open any of them,
they merely get deleted.
My question
Are you too lazy to rewrite even the headline. Again I can't be
the only one that ignores them, if you only cared enough about
your business to rewrite the headline it may increase your open rates.
Did no one ever tell you that the money is NOT IN THE LIST,
The money is in your relationship with your list.
Are you devoid of any imagination to create another subject line,
or is is that you can't be bothered?
Are you so blasé that you think it does not matter.
2. You write a completely nonsensical subject line that
causes me to delete it immediately.
examples are
'"Your clickbank refund'"
"Click here to get your cheque"
"20 million people found"
"6,000 subscribers in an hour"
You get the point There are hundreds more equally facile
subject lines. Why would I want to open any of these?
when I can open an email that says
"How To Engineer QUANTUM Breakthroughs In Your Business Today"
"Do you understand how to Take Your Business to the Next Level "
My Question
Am I the only one that is now looking at who the email is
from rather than the subject line?
What criteria do other forum members use when deciding to
open an email.
The most import point here is the fact that I have spent
ten minutes a day during the last fortnight unsubscribing from
lists, that have not given me any value in the last three months.
Do you send out emails wiht ridiculous subject lines to just one
list, after all it does not matter.
Well here in my view is why it can very very much matter.
I have been to seminars and spoken to Internet marketers and
they have said well I have two lists my customers are on the
first list and they are really important. But well frankly my fifth
Seventh list does not matter, I just promote anything.
OK I even get that to a degree, but I am asking you to reflect on
this. During my frenzy of unsubscribing I have unsubscribed from
about a hundred and twenty people's lists. However, in real terms I
unsubscribed from nearer five hundred actual lists.
How come...................... Well on some autoresponders give me your
full list and I have been so hacked off I have not even looked at them
and just unsubscribed from the lot, without looking at them.
Also some autoresponders have a do not contact list available
and I have used that big style in the last fortnight. So not only have
you lost me for now, but you have lost me forever.
3. Irrelevant spammy content.
OK you have sent to me two relevant emails, so I am still on your list,
and then I open an email from you and it is sending me a completely
spammy email selling me something that you cloearly know nothing about.
My question, have none of you heard of the art of presell? Clearly many
of you have not. Perhaps like me you have had to be around the block
a few times with Internet Marketing - below is a link to a free ebook that
explains the art of preselling
Make Your Content PREsell!
Feel free to read it and increase your profits, its not rocket science just
a sequence of doing things that gets results.
So if I have unsubscribed from your lists recently it is because I am bored,
fed up, disgruntled and franklt can't believe a word you say. if you don't care
about your business how do you expect me to? Why is it that you clearly can't
be bothered to nurture and look after your list.
P.S A special thank you to the INTREPID small band of warriors, that have
developed their own style which may be sardonic, sarcastic, irrelevant, pig
headed, informative or anything else. The point is it is you, and you have
created a presence that can't be ignored. I hope I have learned from all
of you as my list hopefully grows and devlkops. At least I hope it will if
I give them value.
My apologies for the rant, but I would love to know am I standing alone -
engulfed in a sea of indifference.
If you feel that you have something to say and i cna learn from your experience
please feel free to ask me to join your list
Thanks for taking the time to get this far!
P.S. I understand as internet marketers that we all have to promote something
but am I the only one ot ovject at soem of the methods. If you have no credibility
wiht your potential customers you do not have a business you have a hobby horse.
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