The Internet Marketer and Email – Your List

An opt-in list gives you the capability to use email to market your products. If you are involved in affiliate programs, you can market your own or other people’s affiliate programs. Marketing your affiliate internet business online is how you will make money online.

Your list is your life blood, use it wisely. Also, if you are on someone’s list, respect the fact that you agreed to be on the list. If you find you do not like the emails you are receiving just unsubscribe.

When a person subscribes to your list, they confirm and agree to receive your newsletter and/or information from you. You agree to provide information about your area of expertise and what is going on in your business and what is coming out that will benefit you and your readers.

When you subscribe to a list and confirm your subscription, you agree to receive emails from the list owner. You agree to receive the emails because you wants to receive information that will help you to build your online business – to help your make money online.

This mutual consent should allow email to be sent to your subscribers and it should not be considered as spam. Unfortunately, some subscribers will still call it spam for whatever reason. But, an honest internet marketer will not. If he no longer want to receive your email he will use the unsubscribe mechanism that is provided at the bottom of the email.

Good internet marketers know that they must play by the procedures that are set up and that if they do not, it will ultimately damage the internet marketing arena for him and everyone else. Internet marketing depends on email and we must not call spam for email that we receive from the list that we subscribe to.

If you opt into a list always unsubscribe – never report that list as spam.

But you say, “All those promotional emails are annoying.” Maybe this is true, but you are an internet marketer. Your source of income is from sending promotional emails. Anyone that wants to be an internet marketer relies on email and you will also, if you want to succeed as an internet marketer – it’s just the nature of the beast. As my grandkids are learning, “You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.”

Rather you just unsubscribe. Unless it is obviously off target and really is spam, then you call it spam and then the sender: “Gets what he gets and he doesn’t throw a fit.” At least he should know that he has not been a good internet marketer.

So, you must provide a newsletter that always provides good content. Building and maintaining a list is critical, but if you do not send out promotional offers, your list building efforts are worthless.

Are you listening, those of you that are on a list, are you getting the message? Don’t call emails that you receive from the list that you subscribed to as spam just because they are promoting something.

Are you listening, those of you that have a list? Are you being an honest internet marketer and only sending good and useful content? And, are you only sending promotional offers that are beneficial in the area of your newsletter?

You send offers to your list. I send offers to my list. Expect content, but also expect offers – promotion is the mane of the game. So, use your list wisely.

Promotion is how internet marketers (Is that you or what you want to be?) make money online. In the end, promotion, called advertising, is how all businesses make money.

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To Your Online Success

Lonnie Minton

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