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Liberating My eMail Addresses
profitbyjuan
Published on January 20, 2013
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Like many (if not all) of you, my email addresses bring an incredible pile of junk that flows in daily without any control on my part.
You can chose to not answer them, just hit delete. I've tried that, but
1. I lost important information that was buried in the junk,
2. The process of deleting is still time consuming and wasteful.
So when I read what a successful online marketer had done recently, I thought I had found a perfect answer that was right under my nose, UNSUBSCRIBE the intruders; cut them off for good and just keep a few important email addresses.
Unfortunately, unsubscribing is an incredibly boring process, once you've done it about 10 times. And it is also very time consuming. But I consoled myself with the vision of doing online marketing without junk mail.
It was wonderful getting about 5 to 10 emails each day, but only from very valuable contacts that provided me loads of content.
It's been about 3 to 4 weeks since I did this.
But somehow, after one month, my in basket is just as polluted with junk emails as before. All you have to do is answer one or two offers and your email grows out of control again.
So my current practice is to really assess the value of each email writer, and keep their emails to work on. The rest get automatically deleted by my browsers, and by me for the ones that get through.
The whole problem is that email marketing is still too important to completely shut it off.
If someone has a better solution, I would be thrilled to hear about it.
You can chose to not answer them, just hit delete. I've tried that, but
1. I lost important information that was buried in the junk,
2. The process of deleting is still time consuming and wasteful.
So when I read what a successful online marketer had done recently, I thought I had found a perfect answer that was right under my nose, UNSUBSCRIBE the intruders; cut them off for good and just keep a few important email addresses.
Unfortunately, unsubscribing is an incredibly boring process, once you've done it about 10 times. And it is also very time consuming. But I consoled myself with the vision of doing online marketing without junk mail.
It was wonderful getting about 5 to 10 emails each day, but only from very valuable contacts that provided me loads of content.
It's been about 3 to 4 weeks since I did this.
But somehow, after one month, my in basket is just as polluted with junk emails as before. All you have to do is answer one or two offers and your email grows out of control again.
So my current practice is to really assess the value of each email writer, and keep their emails to work on. The rest get automatically deleted by my browsers, and by me for the ones that get through.
The whole problem is that email marketing is still too important to completely shut it off.
If someone has a better solution, I would be thrilled to hear about it.
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