Well. dear valued reader, you're wrong in that aspect. No one in his or her right mind. Or any Internet vendor will commit such horrendous and stupid act. Why? Insomuch as an opt-in lists is a precious asset for anyone doing business on the Internet.
Let's say I'm an Internet user and I just got myself a new Internet account with an email address for my friends and family to get in touch. Now this is my personal and private email address. When a person decides to give that email address away to someone else, they expect that their privacy to be respected... That's why we got a privacy act.
I like to give examples so you can get an idea what users on the Internet go through after they surrender their email address to a Safelists . What is a Safelists?? A Safelists is a group of people who let agreed to receive email opportunities from along with members in return for sending their own fortuity to all members.
Back to the example. We are going to call this user "Joe". When Joe is surfing the Internet he finds something that call his attention, but to get more information he has to give up that private and personal email address to someone that is not a family member or a friend.
After singing in on the subscription box, next thing it happens is that Joe gets a confirmation email asking him to confirm his email address. All Safelists are "double opt-in" meaning a new member must verify by email that they wish to join the list. In turn he can receive the information he requested. He proceeds to confirm the email and get the information on his email inbox in the form of a link or URL to download the report.
Now his email is listed on someone else’s opt in list. So. What happens next? Next day Joe open his email account and his email inbox is full with several hundreds of email messages offering him "the moon" and how to get rich quick on the Internet.
Do we miss the point? Yes he did signed in for information, but now he has an inbox full of email offers. He browses thru the list and suddenly figures out that he only gave the email address to this website that he had requested the free report. Remember what we said about a Safelists. A group of people who have agreed to receive email opportunities from other members.
Now he has a dilemma, since most of the information is not related of what he asked for, he's not interested on any of those subject headlines. Next thing to do for him is hit the 'select all' button and click delete. This will become more of a habit of Joe from now on...since every day that he opens his email his inbox is going to be full of a bunch of email that is annoying and he did not requested with different email address that that he does not recognize.
What happened? How the other people got Joe's private email? First thing in his mind is someone sold his email address to make a buck? Now Joe is disgruntled and untrustworthy of signing with any other opt-in list anywhere. This happens every day to millions of users on the Internet.
What’s the real truth? He signed up on a free for all list or commonly call 'FAA' Safelists. What is a Safelists? A Safelists is a group of people who have agreed to receive email opportunities from other members in return for sending their own opportunity to all members. As all members have agreed to receive messages from the other members, there can be no accusations of SPAM or unsolicited emails made against another member. All Safelists are "double opt-in" meaning a new member must verify by email that they wish to join the list.
When you submit your email address to one of these list you're bound to get hundreds of emails from their subscribers. Everyone that gets listed on the FAA page is entitled to send a "one time" email to this new subscriber email address. In turn your inbox ends up with hundreds of emails with offers.
The best first thing to do if you don't want to receive any emails like Joe... Is to avoid signing up with your own personal email address on a Safelists .
What's the solution? ...Get yourself a second email address that will not be your primary email address and you can use this new email to subscribe to opt-in lists to get free reports and other information that you want to receive.
You can get a free email address at Yahoo.com, Google, etc. or you can search for other free email providers on the Internet.
You got to remember that most free accounts are not accepted on some autoresponders opt-in forms. Also you will need to check this additional email address to clean up your inbox every month or your account will be deactivated.
Remember that when you subscribe or submit your email address you'll receive email in return. That's the marketing rule of the Internet.
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