What you may not know about SPAM

What you may not know about SPAM
I'm not going to talk about how to GET RID OF SPAM in your
inbox; I'm not going to talk about SPAM, the food (if you
can call it that?). I'm talking about accusing others of
SPAMMING.

You know I advocate doing your own ezine almost 100% of the
time. And for the most part, this is a great part of your
marketing. Of course we are becoming bombarded with more
and more ezines, newsletters and articles and such every
day in our inboxes.

Some of you (or not you, but other people...) may be just
getting tired of it all right?

Well, nowadays, every actual ezine or newsletter you
receive SHOULD HAVE an unsubscribe link somewhere in the
body of the email to make it really easy for you to not get
it anymore. If they don't, they need to (see
www.spamlaws.com).

I'm not referring to regular emails people will send you to
follow up from meeting you or sending you quick one-time
info though, this does not fall into the same category as
an ezine. As a weekly ezine author myself, I would
appreciate it if you no longer want to receive my ezines
(chock full of great marketing content or not) if you
simply UNSUBSCRIBE from it instead of REPORTING ME AS SPAM.

Did you know that each time you dump or move someone's
email from your inbox to your 'spam box' that YOU'VE JUST
REPORTED THEM AS A SPAMMER?

Now, that's just not very nice is it? How hard is it to
simply unsubscribe really? I mean, the sender probably did
meet you out somewhere and thought you'd honestly want to
receive their info. Either way, we are all just trying to
do business, not to get you angry. Therefore, can't you
just be nice and simply unsubscribe and NOT REPORT THEM?

Reporting them as spam actually hurts a business and I'm
sure if you knew you were 'hurting' them online, you would
not do it, right?

That's all I wanted to say. I've been 'reported' a few
times since I started my ezines almost 4 years ago, not a
lot, but enough to take offense. Especially since I
specifically ask everyone I meet if they want my ezine with
free marketing tips and networking calendar and they always
say yes. If I don't talk about it to them when I'm out,
then I send them a follow up email suggesting they sign up.
It's not my fault if they DON'T REMEMBER???

I'm one of the honest ones of course and there are some
that aren't but for all of those dishonest people or people
who may have gotten your email through another source -
KARMA WILL GET THEM!

Thanks for listening and please be respectful of others and
you will earn respect from them in return.

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