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How To Crash Your Inbox. 4 Billion Subscriptions In 7 Days.

by Wendy Maki
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No, I'm not offering some tip or program to help you get more than half the world's population (just over 7 billion) on your email list.

Actually, I'm just ruminating on my last hour of email housekeeping where I've been unsubscribing madly from some lists (and there'll be more to come).

Recently, I subscribed to a number of email lists. They were all squeeze pages where I had to sign up to get some information product or other. Actually, all very similar in format and marketing process.

Okay, here's the "point."

I sign up to a list to get an info-freebie. So far, so good. We all understand that. Then, the emails start. Anywhere from 1 - 5 (or more) a day. Every one of them offers a blind link to another info product or some item to something I just have to have! So I click through out of curiosity, and of course, I can't have it unless I sign up for another list.

This is what I would call "Squeeze Page Hell."

So, basically, what is going on is this. I sign up for a list to get a "free" info-gift. And then to get the content of any message I get from that list, I have to sign up for another list.

Heck, this is an email pyramid scheme. I did the math. And this is really really conservative. I just used the idea that I would need to sign up for 2 more lists each day, from each list, to get the content sent by the list. (Are you feeling as dizzy trying to follow this as I do trying to explain it? :rolleyes The number is actually a lot higher than 2 per day, but then we actually end up way beyond the population of the earth in 7 days, which is not realistic.

To get all the content provided by these lists, you would end up signed up to receive emails from this many lists (based on only 2 per day):
Day 1: 1
Day 2: 2
Day 3: 4 (okay so far)
Day 4: 16
Day 5: 256 (wow, my inbox is awful full!)
Day 6: 65,536 (are there this may IMer's sending this?)
Day 7: 4,294,967,296

Do they actually think this is what is meant by "viral"?

No doubt, something has exploded exponentially here, and I think it was my head, or at least my inbox.

All I can say is WOW.



Wendy.
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  • Profile picture of the author VigorLady
    Hi Wendy! What part of Ontario are you from? I love Mississauga!

    Anyway, I've been hit hard by the "type your email address here" and just gotten lampooned over and over again by advertisements like, - Click here to get 1,000 FB followers, or Need Free Traffic? , or How to make $549.14 in 12 minutes....

    All of it turns out to be crap and my email box is blasted!

    I guess that's why I joined the Warrior Forum... hopefully I can actually learn something useful from this place.
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    • Profile picture of the author Wendy Maki
      Originally Posted by VigorLady View Post

      Hi Wendy! What part of Ontario are you from? I love Mississauga!

      Anyway, I've been hit hard by the "type your email address here" and just gotten lampooned over and over again by advertisements like, - Click here to get 1,000 FB followers, or Need Free Traffic? , or How to make $549.14 in 12 minutes....

      All of it turns out to be crap and my email box is blasted!

      I guess that's why I joined the Warrior Forum... hopefully I can actually learn something useful from this place.
      Mississauga is an odd place to end up coming from the states. I'm from a smaller place about an hour away.

      What's a shame is that it kind of makes you wary of signing up for lists that would actually be useful.

      Oh well, I'm sure it will collapse under its own weight.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Originally Posted by Wendy Maki View Post

    Heck, this is an email pyramid scheme. I did the math.

    Wendy.
    Yep, I received an intersting email from Willie Crawford a couple days ago, and it seems the folks at PayPay have taken note of this, are calling it MLM, and locking IMer's accounts right and left.

    And they (PayPal) are watching the warriorforum. Especially the WSO section.:rolleyes:

    I've had several conversations with folks at 2checkout, and they tell me the charge card companies are making them watch what sellers are doing, and making them be careful about the type of products they accept.

    The pressure has also been put upon Clickbank.



    I don't see this massive emailing, and linking to others sellers, in niches outside IM. Some business lists (for brick & mortar businesses) do mail each day, but they certainly are not doing what we are seeing here. And I never receive multiple emails from them in a day!

    :-Don
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  • Profile picture of the author Wendy Maki
    The whole thing seems to be more about list-building than even about selling. Of course, there is always selling somewhere in the equation, eventually...
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  • Profile picture of the author Premier Plugins
    I think it's things like you've mentioned that are really turning off internet marketers from being on any lists at all. It's pretty commonplace these days for such people to have an email account specifically set aside to get spammed to hell and back. The fact that this practice is such a common thing for people these days really says something about email marketing to audiences like those that frequent the Warrior Forum.

    I'm starting to think it's easier to sell someone something for cash than to get them to subscribe to yet another email list. Chances are, even if they subscribe, it won't be their "main" email address anyway.
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    • Profile picture of the author payment proof
      I agree it is aboput list building. And these sites that promise traffic, better results, etc. never seem to work. You need to do the work yourself if you want to be successful on line.
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    • Profile picture of the author Wendy Maki
      Originally Posted by Premier Plugins View Post

      I think it's things like you've mentioned that are really turning off internet marketers from being on any lists at all. It's pretty commonplace these days for such people to have an email account specifically set aside to get spammed to hell and back. The fact that this practice is such a common thing for people these days really says something about email marketing to audiences like those that frequent the Warrior Forum.

      I'm starting to think it's easier to sell someone something for cash than to get them to subscribe to yet another email list. Chances are, even if they subscribe, it won't be their "main" email address anyway.
      For a really long time now, I've actually owned a specific domain name just for the email address that I use for most (not all) subscriptions. The email is set up as a "catchall" so when I sign up for a list, I create a new address just for it! That way, I can do a search for that specific "To" address in Express, and I can see exactly what I've been getting from who.

      So if I run into problems, like excessive spam (some lists are sold), I can get a better idea where it's originating and not affect other subscriptions that I do want.
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