Don’t you just HATE that? You run across someone you think can help you with your business and get on their list.
Might have been a cool freebie they were offering, but after a second thought you changed your mind.
After all, you have already seen the emails a few times.
Nothing wrong with that, a lot of systems have pre-written emails to help get you going. But throw some of your own messages in too.
Better yet, rewrite them a little.
I’ll be the first to admit, some of my emails su**, leave something to be desired. No matter, I’ve met a few pretty knowledgeable people on Facebook and in the blogosphere that are helping me out.
And I sincerely hope that in some small way I’m helping them as well. If in no other way as comic relief because of my own hmm, unique way of looking at things.
But when someone wants off of my list it’s just a click away, “Sorry to see you go and I hope I see you later”. Besides that, I don’t want to be where I’m not wanted.
So why is it that some people don’t have an easy to use unsubscribe link in their auto-responder emails?
Are they so needy and desperate that they are scared to death that a subscriber will leave, almost holding them hostage.
To me that’s pretty much spam, making it harder than it has to be to unsubscribe from their list.
What do you think? Am I being unreasonable?
I mean it’s not that difficult to send a blank email with ‘Unsubscribe’ in the heading, it’s a matter of principle. I don’t think they have any. Principles that is.
Mike
At least you subscribed…I’ve been getting ton’s of e-mail that I never even subscribed to yet I have to unsubscribe myself to get off their list. It’s quite annoying. I think they call that spam!!
Have a great day!
Twila
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Michael Reply:
August 15th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Hey Twila,
I’m glad you brought that up. I’m on a lot of lists, many of them have run out of scheduled messages so all I get are their broadcasts.
But lately I’ve been getting emails from some names I don’t recognise, thought it was just my CRS (Can’t Remember Stuff) acting up.
Now you have me wondering if I signed up at all or if they only found my address and loaded me in. I flagged a few of them to keep track of, just to be sure.
Mike
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Hi Michael,
Geez, I hear ya! I’ve run into that problem several times myself. It is very annoying to say the least.
I have just recently unsubscribed from one list I had never subscribed to by the way. I never found the unsubscribe link and had to send an email to their ‘help desk’ in order to get off the list. Guess what, I am now back on that list and am receiving emails again …. without EVER subscribing. Now that’s what I call blatant SPAM. I won’t be so nice this time and as soon as I find my broom I will be flying over there.
Have a great week!
Ilka
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Michael Reply:
August 16th, 2010 at 3:50 am
Hey Ilka,
A while back I subscribed to a membership site that offered a lot of free training from some really high profile marketers. I quickly realised that I asked for some major infromation overload. I clicked the unsubscribe link but the page I was taken to was, well, incomplete.
It said the name of the list I was on, and to be removed check the button in front of the list I want off of. There was no button. I thought since I was only on one list there was no need for a button, hit ‘submit’ and was at the sites home page. Still on the list. An email a day for a week, click the link, no result. Sent two replies, nada.
A second person from the site started emailing me once a day also, grrr. My first and only reply got me unsubscribed, finally.
I believe it took almost a month to give them the ten ‘no’s’ some people want before they accept that you’re serious.
Mike
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Hey Michael
Somehow my personal email ended up on someone’s list. I clicked the unsubscribe link thinking that would be the end of it. A year and a half later I was still receiving emails. At first I was polite. Then as frustration set in I started to warn them that I was going to start sending not so nice emails.
Also, have you noticed how they put the unsubscribe below the fold by putting in spaces or dots.
I guess that was a Guru tip
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Michael Reply:
August 16th, 2010 at 4:47 am
Hi Peter,
When I first started trying to build a list I joined a membership site from a well known list building ‘guru’. Famous for his attention getting headlines and wacky made up words to get you to open his emails. They worked, I’ll give him that. But the strategies being taught were long, drawn out, and required a lot of technical know how.
It boiled down to building 5 to 10 blogs, each with a different email address attatched to it, with various and sundry Squidoo and Hub Pages linked to them. Rewriting PLR articles for content….. Way too time consuming, and to me it seemed like lying and cheating, with borderline plagiarism thown in. I unsubscribed.
A month or two later I started to get the emails again, this time from a different email address, unsubscribe. The third time I sent a support ticket, “Opps, sorry, we changed our server and there must of been a glich.” The forth time I hinted that I might have to report them, throw a monkey wrench into a multi-million dollar business because they don’t understand the word ‘no’, they stopped reloading my email.
Every now and then I’ll get an email from someone saying, “Listen to this guy, he knows how to build a list.” More often than not I’ll unsubscribe from that person’s list as soon as I see the first person’s name, they lose creditability since they’re pushing stuff I consider to be junk.
Mike
BTW, iConact, which I use, has a standard ‘Manage your list’ box automatically added to the end of every message, it’s supposed to be editable but I never looked into how. It works and that’s enough.
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