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Threats And Future E-mail Strategies
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Email Marketing Solution | Small Business Email Marketing |Can Spam Act
Many webmasters and Internet users are getting rather sick of the
amount of marketing material hitting their inbox these days. And who can really blame
them? I get a plethora of non-related email offers in my inbox each day and it frustrates
the hell out of me. I've received emails peddling a prescription drug that I have no
interest in.
But I also recognize the importance of email marketing for my own online business. I
don't even consider it to be a "necessary evil"; it's a valid and valuable strategy for
any ecommerce oriented site. Since the dawn of commerce, business owners haven't
succeeded by opening shop, then sitting back and waiting for customers. They've had to
compete - initially by standing outside their stores and yelling in the marketplace - and
from that point, active advertising was born.
Email marketing today - the challenge
The main problem or those of us who use ethical means of email promotion is that we
become sitting ducks for those rightfully angry webmasters and surfers who cannot vent
their anger on those spamming gangs that apparently cannot be caught.
If you're involved in B2B (Business to Business) enterprises, you can no longer simply
visit relevant sites, assess the site for compatibility with your offer and then contact
the owner. This is considered spam by many now, as the real spammers who buy lists of
millions of addresses for under a hundred bucks use that ploy in their approach - even
though they have never visited the site. It's a shame.
I'm noticing more and more sites in the last few weeks using blocking and filtering
software - the uptake of this technology has been pushed along by the recent spate of
email viruses that brought many companies to their knees. We were one of the businesses
affected by the garbage generated by the virus onslaught and while I really hate to do
so, I'll probably start implementing filtering/blocking solutions myself very soon.
Yahoo, AOL and some similar services allow people to report supposed spam with a single
click. Again, this doesn't stop the professional spammers, but it does affect legitimate
companies.
I know of many ethical operators whose subscribers no longer receive their newsletters
etc. in their inboxes because a couple of idiots on their list have either forgotten that
they subscribed or are just being plain malicious. The valid emails go straight to the
bulk folders and few users really go through those folders. The mail is simply
automatically deleted after a specified period.
The only people to really benefit from all these anti-spam solutions are the professional
spammers and the lawyers who will make a bundle through prosecuting the little guys they
manage to catch - and believe me, many truly innocent webmasters have suffered and will
suffer. Regardless of whether a law suit is successful or not, a price cannot be put on
the downtime and stress caused by threatened legal action.
Email marketing today and into the future
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