If I have a list of email and sending email to them by promoting some product, will that consider as spamming? Can this marketing style still working by today? Any comment? Thanks
How did you get the email addresses? If they are (preferably double) opt-in email addresses, you show your name/address and the option to ubsubcribe, you shuold be fine. If they arent obtained through opt-in lists, it is most definatly spam.
As been said before. Unless those people recieving the offers actually signed up to recieve those product offers by email you will be considered a spammer.
It depends whether he receiver has subscribed your service or not, if not them it is spam . And obviously, it is very effective way of marketing.
Use these ones to identify yourself. 1. If you got that list by your own opt-in process - Then it is not spam. Otherwise is Spam. 2. If you send anything that people do not asked for - Then it is Spam.
I agree with all of the above...also... Think about how you feel when you receive too many emails about a service or product and then balance the amount you send out. Imagine you are sending it to yourself. Make sure that you mix product promotion with good content that helps people and has no links on it. If you do this, over time you build more respect from your list and a better relationship. Then when you want to promote a product they will believe in your opinion and you will get a better conversion.
If you send emails to people who are not subscribed to receive those emails (double optin, as called by many service providers like aweber) then yes they are considered spamming If you are purchasing those email lists, yes you are spamming Nowadays, people have to just click junk mail option for the mail and the mail provider starts to create the database for those IPs, it can get worse from their own
How is purchasing an email list considered spam? Have any of you even done any email marketing before? Leased lists are common within email marketing. Have not ever been to a website that asks you "Would you like to receive news from our partners?" when you sign up? That's a leased list, and that's legal! Please do your research before you go on telling someone not to do something. OP: Only email a list that has been grown through legitimate CAN SPAM regulations. If the list is "sketchy" or if you "found" it, then don't email it. That "may" be considered spam if those individuals did not opt-in to receive emails from a partner website. Best
pretty simple..if you signed up for a beef newsletter, then they sell your email to the chicken newsletter...then you start getting chicken newsletters...guess what..you have been spammed...anyone that buys emails, and sends email to them is spamming them with offers they did not request...This is why double opt in is so important, as well as "We will not sell your email for privacy reasons" I can almost bet you...those that sell those bulk emails...I bet you most of them are not legit signups... they sell them for profit, and it would actually take a lot of money to get legit emails that make an actual request...and they are probably misleading them into signing up also if they are legit..if they knew their email would be sold, then nobody would signup...
Just make sure you are CAN-SPAM compliant. Meaning you have an unsubscribe link, the individuals are single/double opt-ins, company name, website name, the individuals email/name etc. etc.
Really depends on the type of e-mails and the quality of the list. Only way to really find out is to give it a shot and send out some messages
If I’m ever in doubt I usually just copy and paste some of the text of it into google and if it’s spam there’s usually at least 3 or 4 blogs out there that have that same comment listed.
It completely depends on how you got the email list. If it's an opt-in, then send them but be transparent and include an opt-out feature so they can unsubscribe to future emails if they wish.
The rule of thumb is that if you doubt/question the possibility of something being perceived as spam, then it probably is.