Cut The Frigging Marketing Crap Already!
I love reading other blogs, like John Chow, Yaro and many others. So naturally I subscribed to their blogs for e-mail updates, or I may have opted in to receive an e-book from their site – but somehow I managed to give them my e-mail address.
While I like to get updates about what they’re doing, has anyone noticed the amount of marketing drivel they’ve ALL been sending out?
Here are a few headlines I’ve had over the last few days – this reminds me of my days when I was hunting for the get rich quick scheme and every friggin marketer and their dogs were glad to sell me crap:
- Mohamed You Have Less Than 24 Hours To Receive $1,000 Bonus
- A case study of a $10K/month membership site
- Who else wants to run a successful membership site from home?
- How To Get Membership Site Mastermind for Free!
- How I made $211,969 while traveling the world
- Step-By-Step Guide to Launching a Membership Site
- How I launched a 6-figure income membership site
- Mohamed, CLOSED (you are too late??)
- Brazilian blogger launches $10K/month membership site
- How I launched a 6-figure income membership site
You know, I expect stuff like this from some of the other marketers lists I subscribe to – but I don’t mind because I know I’m going to get spammed for products that are years old. But to get this from people that I respect?
Now I know what you’re saying – “but they ARE marketers… they are going to try and sell you something”. Yes I know that, but I don’t expect to get one e-mail talking about a new post and the next e-mail spamming me about Membership Site Mastermind. What a flipping waste of my time having to go through this and DEL/DEL/DEL the crap so that I can find the “good” stuff.
You know what the solution should be? A warning when you subscribe to their lists or FREE stuff that says something to the effect:
- By signing up for this FREE E-BOOK you agree to allow us to SPAM YOU with anything and everything that is launched by any marketer out there. You agree to let us e-mail you up to 50 times per day to try and convince you that what we’re flogging this week is the latest and greatest and that you simply must have it no matter how much it is. In order to convince you to buy this from ME and nobody else I will throw in $100,000 worth of useless shit that I’ve been giving away for free anyways but for you we’ll pretend that you’re the first person to see it. Oh, and while we e-mail you 50 times per day for whatever we’re flogging we’ll send you some random useful messages to prove to you that we really do care and want to help you succeed – but remember you can only succeed if you buy the package we are trying to sell you plus don’t forget you’ll get $100,000 worth of valuable e-books, MP3 audio recordings and VIDEO of my <insert seminar name here> sell out $10,000 per seat seminar. Did we mention that you’ll get $100,000 worth of free products if you buy through my affiliate link?
Hmm… did I cover everything?
Time to unsubscribe from so many of these bloggers that I enjoyed so much…
Mohamed
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Most subscription nowadays includes spam. So legit advertising goes to trash along with the spam.
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Certainly they will tell you that they wont sale your email … now I understand why they do not sell because they themselves start spamming you and they do not want to give this privilege to any other people.
This is exactly why I NEVER subscribe to anything ever….these people use this to spam people with their bull shit ebooks and courses, the same stuff that is produced on the web over and over. I mean, they are internet marketers, but they shouldn’t have to result to this since they are already making enough money with their cluttered ads on their site
Well this was expected as they will send you mails about everything what ever they will do and whatever they have done.
Sometime reading those mails can be really beneficial and maximum time waste of time.
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Very innovative! thanks for sharing the tips which will prove to be very helpful in future as well…
To be very true, nothing is beyond marketing on this planet. Once I subscribed to a blog and the guy Mike Filsame still keep me sending those useless emails. It is even difficult to get rid of such people(I am not talking about Yaro or other popular sites). One cumbersome marketer is Majon and it is really a pain in my back. Anyways, I don’t mind a little spam from someone who provide some good stuff as well.
now I understand why they do not sell because they themselves start spamming you and they do not want to give this privilege to any other people.
I have to agree with Vanessa. The online business is very much competitive nowadays so we can’t blame them of using those kind of spam tactics.
You wont believe this but to get the maximum followers on twitter these people have organised so many contest and free give away prized such as flip or iPhone or iPod.
So they know this is their strength and with the help of this they can make money only.
Mostly this world is full of experienced and clever people but internet is also full of newbies who are always in hurry to earn some quick cash. I think such email are perfect opportunity for them to loose their money.
Thanks for the great advice! I just came across your blog and love the content. I look forward to reading your posts in the future
hey nicely written, i too like to read lot of blogs as they do give us lot of info on different issues.
i enjoyed reading this too.
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Yes it can get annoying but these guys make it pretty easy to opt-out too. So if you don’t like the content… Opt-out.
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the post is really focusing one and you are absolutely true about the topic which leads all of web users towards victom in spaming
Completely true! You are so kind to share us blog readers with thest useful information. I was worried about those difficult to deal with emails sometimes as well. I maintain this will a best channel from which they will lose most of their money. However,a bad aspect, we usually miss some useful stuff due to these useless information as well… …
For a good content, that can be tolerated in some ways but I think that is not an effective way to market anything.
I’m off Thursday afternoons, so I like to surf around different blogs and read posts that catch my eye. Your post really hit home for me. I was not sure how I felt about it at first but after reading your post I think I would have to agree. Just wondering though? What exactly did you mean at the end in the last paragraph?
I agree. We have to be careful on giving out our email information because of these spam messages. I, for one, am receiving at least a dozen every day.
Spam has and always will be a problem I think. It is how we react to this spam that is helpful. SImply moaning about it will not do, bin it, block it and report it!
Spam has always been a problem,I agree with Searching101, it is up to us on how we control it.
Very innovative! thanks for sharing the tips which will prove to be very helpful in future as well…
Yes covered everything. Most subscription now a days include SPAM