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14 years ago

That is very true! I also like to check my emails for ideas when writing my own emails to my list, writing newsletters, checking out marketing strategies from other marketers I subscribe to, etc.

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JasonParker

14 years ago

Nice one George.

I've got an Email Swipe File folder in my Gmail that I put my favorite e-mails I get into.

Never thought to search for topic specific e-mails though.

Good stuff.

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Steve Faber

14 years ago

It's also great for examples of emails you don't want to send to your list!

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Site87 14 years ago

Originally Posted by opportunitiesaplenty

It's also great for examples of emails you don't want to send to your list!

Haha true!
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cbest 14 years ago

Originally Posted by opportunitiesaplenty

It's also great for examples of emails you don't want to send to your list!

I was going to add that myself... track the headlines you find really obnoxious and make sure you aren't doing something similar.
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imagene

14 years ago

That's a great tip - one mans trash is another mans treasure! I only keep the great emails or the terrible ones. Examples on either side of the spectrum

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donhx

14 years ago

Glad to hear I'm not the only crazy one.

I have virtually every email I have sent or received since 1996. I can only search those from late 2002 forward, but I have the older ones stored in case I ever want to prep them for search. Those emails have proven very valuable to me in many different ways, including researching projects and resolving various issues that have arisen long after deals were done.

It seems most people delete emails soon after they arrive. I have always thought of them as a personal historical resource.

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cbest

14 years ago

Originally Posted by donhx

Glad to hear I'm not the only crazy one.

I have virtually every email I have sent or received since 1996. I can only search those from late 2002 forward, but I have the older ones stored in case I ever want to prep them for search. Those emails have proven very valuable to me in many different ways, including researching projects and resolving various issues that have arisen long after deals were done.

It seems most people delete emails soon after they arrive. I have always thought of them as a personal historical resource.

I'm amazed at the resources I can pull out of the emails I received and have done webinars with pretty good response.

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CurtisN

14 years ago

Nice! I'm only closing in on 46000

I usually archive everything that isn't spam anyway. For the really important ones though, I'll label them in case I forget what keyword to search for.

It's very interesting to see how different marketers' newsletters have changed (or not).

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mikemcmillan

14 years ago

George,
If you check those emails you will find that about 214,000 of them came from me, but you still haven't bought anything from my links. Gunna keep sending them 'til you buy!

Really, I save almost all in one account as well. You are right on target. People complain about promotional emails, but they really are a terrific resource just as you said. By studying the subject lines and content you can get a great, free education on how successful marketers do things. Great for pointing that out. I wouldn't delete mine for the world. Thanks! --Mike

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cbest

14 years ago

Originally Posted by George Sepich

Don't delete your emails. It makes for a killer swipe file and research tool.
Anytime i need an idea, i can do a keyword search on my gmail account.
Since the emails are all from people i have subscribed to, the content is targeted more to my own tastes. As opposed to just searching with a search engine. Gmail gives you lots of space. Save them and use them.

280,000 emails is an awesome resource.

George

When I first started list building with Safelists etc I set up a seperate acct just for them and then applied filters to organize and do the same for specific emails to categorize them for copy -swipe files.

Great topic George

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George Sepich

14 years ago

I should add, that it is also a great way to learn not how to end up in the spam folder. Right now I have 2000 plus in my spam folder, that i did not count in my original number. Most of that is true spam, but there are a ton of big time marketing names that should not be there. You can also learn from their mistakes, so you don't end up in the wrong place as well.

George

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Shannon Herod

14 years ago

Originally Posted by George Sepich

I should add, that it is also a great way to learn not how to end up in the spam folder. Right now I have 2000 plus in my spam folder, that i did not count in my original number. Most of that is true spam, but there are a ton of big time marketing names that should not be there. You can also learn from their mistakes, so you don't end up in the wrong place as well.

George

If you look I bet a lot of the emails that ended up in the spam folder are emails from a hosted solution and not an autoresponder company.

Shannon

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seafrontsteve

14 years ago

I agree that copies of emails are a great resource - but that you need to be a bit picky.
I have signed up to so many lists that I just file most emails for possible later reference.
When I discover a great marketer, I then go back to browse some of the emails he or she has sent.
But when I find a scammer or 'me too' kind of guy, his messages get deleted and I opt out of his list

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Fernando Veloso

14 years ago

George,

Beware Gmail closed the account at least of a fellow warrior with no warning and aparently he wasn't doing anything wrong - he just got hacked or something weird like that.

I'll try to find the thread for you.

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paulie888

14 years ago

George, I definitely like your thinking here! I'm glad I'm not the only insane person who never deletes his emails. I have trounced you on numbers though - as of right now, I have 382,877 emails in my Gmail inbox and 4,577 emails in my Spam folder!

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Daniel Fonda

14 years ago

So true- deleting an email list is one of the biggest mistakes an online marketer could ever make.

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Heck, I even learn a lot from the spammers. Say what you want about them,
and no, I'm not defending spam, but some of these guys write killer ad copy.
It's a shame that they don't use their skills for good rather than evil. But I
have picked up quite a few "catch phrases" and ideas from some of this spam
that have actually worked in a legit email marketing campaign. A lot of these
guys truly understand the power of mystery, scarcity and a killer offer at
an unreal price.

Like I said, it's a shame that they don't use their skills for good.

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the_knight

14 years ago

hahaha, I too subscribed to people's list just want to know what they will write so it can give me inspiration about what I should write for email marketing

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Meharis

14 years ago

Originally Posted by George Sepich

Don't delete your emails. It makes for a killer swipe file and research tool.
Anytime i need an idea, i can do a keyword search on my gmail account.
Since the emails are all from people i have subscribed to, the content is targeted more to my own tastes. As opposed to just searching with a search engine. Gmail gives you lots of space. Save them and use them.

280,000 emails is an awesome resource.

George

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Richnana

14 years ago

I absoutely can not stand to have that many emails anywhere. Spring cleaning is kind of an addiction and I have to do the same with emails. You guys have ultimate patience and tenacity. It makes me crazy to even think about that much space being utilized by old emails.

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Hamida Harland

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richnana

I absoutely can not stand to have that many emails anywhere. Spring cleaning is kind of an addiction and I have to do the same with emails. You guys have ultimate patience and tenacity. It makes me crazy to even think about that much space being utilized by old emails.

I'm the same. Every so often I go through my inbox and delete a ton of emails. I keep only the best ones for my email swipe file, and I know that the few thousand I DO keep are really good. I actually don't see the point in keeping as much as 280,000 - surely the vast majority of those must be junk.

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RobertoJSanchez

14 years ago

I never thought about emails in that manner. Wow I guess I better start saving them for ideas when I do my copywriting. Food for Thought and I do love food. Thanks for this great idea.

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K_tir

14 years ago

Originally Posted by George Sepich

Don't delete your emails. It makes for a killer swipe file and research tool.
Anytime i need an idea, i can do a keyword search on my gmail account.
Since the emails are all from people i have subscribed to, the content is targeted more to my own tastes. As opposed to just searching with a search engine. Gmail gives you lots of space. Save them and use them.

280,000 emails is an awesome resource.

George

I am amazed! For how long have you collected all these emails?

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yourreviewer

14 years ago

Travis Sago is one marketer I follow very closely in this regard. His emails hardly read like emails, it is as if he is having a conversation with you on a personal level. Very few marketers can do it. Plus he sends the right mix of informative content and promotional content unlike the other Gurus where you have to really scratch your head to remember the last time they ever sent an informative email.

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paulie888

14 years ago

Originally Posted by yourreviewer

Travis Sago is one marketer I follow very closely in this regard. His emails hardly read like emails, it is as if he is having a conversation with you on a personal level. Very few marketers can do it. Plus he sends the right mix of informative content and promotional content unlike the other Gurus where you have to really scratch your head to remember the last time they ever sent an informative email.

I definitely agree, he's one of the few marketers that has truly mastered the art of email marketing, and his emails are always well thought out, conversational and tend to deliver a lot of value even when he's promoting something because he makes it a point to get very well-acquainted with it, unlike your typical email marketer.

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MaxReferrals

14 years ago

Tip: Create a FILTER where you can auto-sort your inbound email to folders, for easy organization.

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Sarah Russell

14 years ago

Haha - I thought you were going to turn that into a time management thing, and say that with new search features and the capacity of most inboxes these days, it's a waste of time to try to keep your inbox to a manageable level (seriously - one of the best things I've done recently was stop caring how many unread messages there are in my inbox).

But this is good stuff too

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davewebsmith

14 years ago

had mine since 2005 - 734003

323341 unread lol

You are currently using 4379Mb (58%) of 7549 Mb

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Dave Rodman Banned 14 years ago

Before I switched to GoogleApps/Gmail, I couldn't imagine keeping that many emails because the search features always konked out in the middle of a search because of the amount of messages I had.

Now that I am on Gmail/Google Apps for everything, it's great. If I can't remember who sent an email, just a keyword or two and I've got the email. It's great.
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14 years ago

Good idea. I never thought of it that way.

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huang zhi 14 years ago

That is probably crazy enough to work for copywriting and reference. Great learning process too..
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davewebsmith

14 years ago

I simply signup to every optin box i find and archive the emails by a rule. #

Its funny to see how many lists/IM'ers send the same email around the same time for the same offer ...

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James Blair

14 years ago

George that's actually a dang good point! That one never even crossed my mind but it's actually so simple and true. Good one buddy.

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