I want to send email but not spam?
i have a lot of email addresses some are friends, some are people who have emailed over the years and others were forwarded in personal emails. I want to use these addresses in a marketing campaign. How do I email , without being accused of spamming, how do I get them to opt in. Most email companies say that I am spamming before the email is sent.
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Unless your business name is plainly obvious "DogFoodByPost.com", then you must add a brief description of your products/services.
July 28th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
If you have a company, and you have been sent mails from people for business reasons – then you can normally send them.
However, addresses you have been forwarded you cannot just use – as those people have no formal relationship with your company at all – and they can, succesfully, claim you spam them.
The best solution is to start an opt-in mailing list – and send people you have address of a one time mail with the invitation to join that list. Do not add any commercial information to the invite – just a "your email address is in our database – please can you confirm you want to recieve commercial mailings from my company – reply to this mail to be added"
That way, if someone does not reply – it`s an automatic ‘no, please don`t send me’.
If they do reply, it means ‘yes, i don`t mind receiving your news/ commercial information’.
The top solution is to create a mailing list manager that handles subscribe and unsubscribe requests automatically. If you subscribe, you cannot complain you are being spammed.
Be careful in how you handle this – as spam fines are high.
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July 28th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Add to above:
Unless your business name is plainly obvious "DogFoodByPost.com", then you must add a brief description of your products/services.
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