This is crazy! Anyone ever clean out their lists???
Way back last Spring I purchased an inexpensive WSO and was not pleased with having to opt in for it. I used a gmail account I had just created for future use as the email address.
Several weeks later I checked that email account and what I found was email after email from that one marketer. I decided to let it ride just to see what his marketing strategy was.
Eight months later - to the day, that marketer has sent 272 emails to that address. That's 34 emails month after month for 8 months - and not one of them had been opened or read. The emails weren't sent daily as some days during the month were skipped while others had 2-4 emails on one day.
Yesterday I looked at some of the emails and found most were a promotion for an affiliate product. All of the promoted products were IM products and the variety was all over the place from list building to site building to latest launch to ebooks aimed at all levels from newbie to experienced.
Again, not complaining. I can (and did) unsubscribe. But I was left wondering whether list owners clean up their lists and remove unresponsive members or just keep going with the daily emails indefinitely. Also wondered if it's profitable to build a list so untargeted that it promotes the most basic new marketer products, older "new marketer" products, advanced launches.....on and on. (Two exceptions were emails about the list owner's financial difficulties).
Are there people on lists who will read 34 promotional emails a month from the same marketer month after month? I'm not any expert on list building but wouldn't it be wiser to target lists so that info and promotion you send are specifically targeted to a certain market rather than just for a broad (IM) niche? Is this why some new marketers complain about unresponsive lists?
Do you prune your lists to remove addresses that have never opened or responded or purchased from your emails?
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