Comments on: A Biz Card is NOT an email Opt In! http://www.webmarketingtherapy.com/blog/tough-love/a-biz-card-is-not-an-email-opt-in/ Marketing Help, Web Marketing Advice, Web Marketing Training Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:19:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Poncho and his mom http://www.webmarketingtherapy.com/blog/tough-love/a-biz-card-is-not-an-email-opt-in/comment-page-1/#comment-22438 Poncho and his mom Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:54:24 +0000 http://www.webmarketingtherapy.com/?p=3340#comment-22438 Poncho and I agree wholeheartedly L. We'd also like to go beyond the biz card and say this goes for folks you contact via email directly, to just ask a question. They then feel it's appropriate to add you to their newsletter list, and then proceed to write to you like they've known you since childhood. Oh, and then send you about 6 letters in one day! Talk about unpleasant associations! We say it's the ideal way to lose customers...hmm, maybe that was their subconscious intention? ;-> Poncho and I agree wholeheartedly L. We’d also like to go beyond the biz card and say this goes for folks you contact via email directly, to just ask a question. They then feel it’s appropriate to add you to their newsletter list, and then proceed to write to you like they’ve known you since childhood. Oh, and then send you about 6 letters in one day! Talk about unpleasant associations! We say it’s the ideal way to lose customers…hmm, maybe that was their subconscious intention? ;->

]]> By: Lorrie Thomas http://www.webmarketingtherapy.com/blog/tough-love/a-biz-card-is-not-an-email-opt-in/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Lorrie Thomas Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:14:46 +0000 http://www.webmarketingtherapy.com/?p=3340#comment-458 some of the eNewsletters I get force opted into are actually quite good - all I ask is a simple, "Hey, I have a great email list, can I add you?" (then make a dot on the biz card so the biz owner has an "ok" note when they get back to the office) A little pre-permission respect (just a little bit, uh huh, just a little bit) would make me feel less inbox violated. Off to YouTube to find a good Aretha R-E-S-P-E-C-T song to listen to! Ha! some of the eNewsletters I get force opted into are actually quite good – all I ask is a simple, “Hey, I have a great email list, can I add you?” (then make a dot on the biz card so the biz owner has an “ok” note when they get back to the office)

A little pre-permission respect (just a little bit, uh huh, just a little bit) would make me feel less inbox violated.

Off to YouTube to find a good Aretha R-E-S-P-E-C-T song to listen to! Ha!

]]> By: Emilia Doerr http://www.webmarketingtherapy.com/blog/tough-love/a-biz-card-is-not-an-email-opt-in/comment-page-1/#comment-457 Emilia Doerr Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:04:10 +0000 http://www.webmarketingtherapy.com/?p=3340#comment-457 Aw man, sorry you had to deal with so many shady opt-ins! I agree that it's a bad approach and hope more people realize that PERMISSION is key to building a quality email RELATIONSHIPS! Sure you can always delete the email and opt-out, but that's still leaves a bad taste in your inbox! Aw man, sorry you had to deal with so many shady opt-ins! I agree that it’s a bad approach and hope more people realize that PERMISSION is key to building a quality email RELATIONSHIPS! Sure you can always delete the email and opt-out, but that’s still leaves a bad taste in your inbox!

]]> By: Keith T. http://www.webmarketingtherapy.com/blog/tough-love/a-biz-card-is-not-an-email-opt-in/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Keith T. Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:19:32 +0000 http://www.webmarketingtherapy.com/?p=3340#comment-451 I'm kinda thinking you didn't go wrong anywhere. Respect is only reciprocal if all parties involved subscribe to the same notion of what that actually means (which sadly, is not as often as we would like). I personally think that some people feel it's OK to just add anyone to their email newsletter list because they view email as something that can be deleted if the recipient doesn't want it. I don't dig that approach at all, but I think it's one many people take. Maybe you should return the favor to these new "contacts" and forward a link to this blog posting. You never know, maybe someone will learn a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha style ;) I’m kinda thinking you didn’t go wrong anywhere. Respect is only reciprocal if all parties involved subscribe to the same notion of what that actually means (which sadly, is not as often as we would like).

I personally think that some people feel it’s OK to just add anyone to their email newsletter list because they view email as something that can be deleted if the recipient doesn’t want it. I don’t dig that approach at all, but I think it’s one many people take.

Maybe you should return the favor to these new “contacts” and forward a link to this blog posting. You never know, maybe someone will learn a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha style ;)

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