For subscribers : B4 you give your email address for a free gift, think again!

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Its like candy hung in front of a kid.
A carrot in front of a donkey. (if that is what they eat)

Many may think, email address is free, i can just create a "bogus" email to use for getting all this free gift etc.

But whatever email you give, you are gonna spend time loggin in after wards, going through the emails and spending time clearing emails.

Sure, it is not like giving your home address, or bank account, or telephone number. But by giving your email address to someone without doing research about that person is just as good as losing the most valuable asset, TIME.

What i notice many marketers do is this, they replicate their list into other list.
You may have signed up for "free SEO training" for example.
But they copied you into 10 other list of theirs.
Probably for free plr, free ppc, etc etc..

Then when you start to feel like you are receiving too much emails and you decided to unsubscribe, you unsub, but only to find that you are still receiving emails from them. Under a different sender name/list name.

Its like cutting one head and 2 heads come up.

As i've said before in other threads, i have not been signing up for anyones list for a long time, but im receiving emails from new people every week.
Every week i see a new senders name.

So my emails i receive per day just grows exponentially even when im not actively subscribing for anything.

So think before you give that free email address of yours, as much as it is free or bogus, it is still valuable because it takes time, your PRECIOUS time to go through emails, deleting them, classifying them, sieving through good offers and bad ones, looking through the offers itself, etc..

Time is an asset, your email account may be free, your time is not!
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  • All the reasons you mentioned are the reasons we have email addresses specifically for subscriptions and fee offers. If we get too much we just do a "Delete All" and wait for it to fill up again. I do not think it is the big deal you make it out to be

    al
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    • Thats what i thought initially.
      I do have emails for signing up with random offers.

      But think about it, you start receiving 50 emails a day to that email address.

      How do you know which is good and which is bad.
      You have to sieve through the offers and emails.

      And that means opening and reading them, or clicking on their links and sitting through the sales video.
      Or even buying the product and finidng out what kind of products they recommend.


      If you say "simple, you will roughly know which sender sends what kind of emails"

      But that takes time, over a period of time OPENING their emails to know what kind of emails they are sending.
      So again that takes time.

      If you are actually gonna just select all and delete, then in the 1st place why do you sign up for offers out there??

      So no, i dont think im exaggerating. =)
      Sometimes i do, but not this time.
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  • Why not send it to an alternative email, that is what I do?

    I open them based on the sender.
  • I agree with your points, but you can always unsubscribe, so I don't really think it's such a big deal
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    • Hi, if you read my whole OP, i said, you sign up for XYZ, even if you unsub, they have already copied you into so many other sub list they have.

      So you still continue to receive emails from the same people under different list of his.
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  • I noticed this recently as well. I have signed up to a few lists but I keep receiving emails from people I never heard of. My first thought was that some email address collecting bot found my email address somewhere online.

    That could also be one of the reasons why you are receiving more email than usual.

    I usually just unsubscribe or mark the emails as spam. I like to keep my inbox nice and clean.
  • I have an email address I use just for optin in, I check it from time to time, mainly just to get ideas for swipe copy, I'm not the type of person that buys any ole thing...

    Then I have one for people I model, there's only about 5 people I am subscribed to in there...
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    • Yea sounds like me..

      i like to look at mails to have an idea of what is out there.

      But sometimes it just gets on my nerve to see low quality emails and cheap tricks just to keep sending emails to me.

      Cos it takes time to sieve tru all the junk and really see and follow people you want and if possible learn too.

      But it gets difficult when those who you decide you do not want to follow or keep track of anymore and unsub from them, only to keep receiving from their other sub list.
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  • This has never been an issue for me...my middle finger is very good at hitting the delete button....
  • 1. They are not allowed to subscribe you to another list beside the one you confirmed your intention to be on.

    2. If you use Gmail, you can always create an "identification" for the list you subscribe to; e.g. if I subscribe to you I'd create myemail+newbee@gmail.com; if I subscribe to Greedy's list, it would be myemail+greedy@gmail.com... etc.

    You can use a name AND an email reminding you of the original list(owner) you signed up for - which means you'd know exactly who is spamming you. And then you can report it as spam to their AR provider. I sure do!
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    • Newbiee,Just as a matter of curiosity, is the sending domain either wsoleads.com or zoolists.com?


      Paul
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  • this is marketing nowadays ... just like walking down the road and by the 100m you get 5 different people trying to sell you things... same thing with the email.. just be careful where you put your email and use the filter settings, unsubscription etc etc
  • Good point. I get the same,but I just either send them to spam, or filter them using gmail filtering.
  • Mark,

    iqsharing.com is another belonging to the guy I'm thinking of. He goes by Danut Burlan, Burlan Danut, and several variations.

    Romanian spammer, specializing in IM-related stuff, mostly sold through JV Zoo, WarriorPlus, and Clicksure. Changes the names in the From field of his emails regularly.

    This guy is responsible for a big chunk of the spam I get related to this forum and the services mentioned.

    Anyone who's getting a ton of spam like that from names they don't recognize has probably ended up on his list(s). I can't say whether Clicksure will do anything about him, but W+ and JV Zoo will ban spammers pointing people to their services if they have credible evidence.

    The links in his emails don't point directly to the sellers or affiliate platforms. If you're getting stuff like this, go to WhereGoes? - A tool for tracing the redirect path of URLs and paste the links in to see the redirect path. That will tell you who to report him to.


    Paul
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    • What exactly is credible evidence for JV Zoo? I've sent them explanations, headers, emails from different names, etc. and their canned response is "we take spam seriously" but apparently not seriously enough to give up a commission. If they do ban an ID then apparently it's easy as pie to get another one because they have come with different IDs.

      And they are coming to, interestingly enough, to 3 addresses that were only ever entered on sites run by Ryan Deiss. Their support had the same type response as above.

      I know take it up with them.

      I've thought about posting on WSO threads "affiliate xxx is spamming me with a link to your product. I never opted in to his list and am requesting that he be stopped from spamming me on behalf of your product" or something like that. You probably wouldn't take that too kindly though Paul.

      Mark
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  • I found this link trying to find something out abut jvlists.com, very informative. I too use my email capabilities from my website to set up email lists that are coded to the list that I sign up to. This way I can have the emails that come to that address automatically deleted, sounds like the same thing Shaun OReilly does with his own site. I like the way he uses gmail also. I am learning other ways and experimenting with other ways to counter all the spam, takes time but I will prevail.
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    • Personally, I have no problem unsubscribing from them later if I see that they're trying to sell me stuff everyday without giving me any valuable information or advice. It does get tedious unsubscribing from the same person more than once, but it is what it is.
  • if you give an email on the net expect to get marketing, nothing is free, that's the truth. There is no way to stop it the best way if you don't want email is do not give it ever is the best way to stop it. i like geting spam it's made me tons and tons of money but I'm not a normal person.
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