I got an email from this newsletter that I subscribe to - something written by "David Vallieries" - Anyway, I've given up on reading the emails - He just continuously sends emails everyday with a lot of information - perhaps only 10% or less useful - and about 60-70% of the emails have affiliate links. You can spend all day... um... all week examining his emails and the information he sends. Anyway, after surpassing all of his emails - I opened one of them today and followed the link. It led me here: hxxp://www.117christmasgifts.com/ (Change xx to tt) So I signed up with my dummy email where all my spam goes to (haha) got the verification code and signed up... SO MUCH INFORMATION! And I guess it probably works for them or else they wouldn't bother. I signed up on the premise of getting 117 free "gifts" but when you do get signed up and given the hard sell online - in the end you still have to submit your email once again to get the free gifts. ARGH! I give up! What do you guys think? Do you guys sometimes suffer from "too much information" headaches? Does this Marketing/Selling Technique work? What's your experience?
You're absolutely right in that you can get swamped with too much garbage info. My best tip is to unsubscribe from half of the newsletters you currently subscribe to and also using an RSS reader (I use the excellent Feed Demon) to keep your favourite blogs in one place. Then set aside a fixed time for reading before getting on with the real work. In terms of the Christmas offers, like anything there's good and bad.
I get a lot of Repetitive emails daily it really bugs me to the point i stopped actually reading them. My newsletters i tend to Change the whole look even the colours and everything. Hope my method works
I read somewhere that its been scientifically proven that too much information can lower your judgement in a situation. I don't think thats the way it works. What is happening is you are getting lots of information about why you need to buy a product and how its going to make your life better. Naturally everyone wants to have a better life! The problem is that the information might be misleading and it is specifically written to supress your skepticism. I think the internet as a whole is a form of information overload -- but in a good way. As long as you get your information from lots of sources and have simple common sense you able to construct a more accurate picture of the world around you than, say reading one book about the topic.