- Excessive frequency. I just unsubscribed from a pair of chumps who had sent me 14 mailings over the past 24 hours. I don't interact with my wife as often as these guys want to talk to me
- Misleading headings. If you say "Instant download link inside..." you'd better not be redirecting me to another double opt-in form. You already have my email, or I wouldn't have got the message, dummy...
- False urgency. "This page won't be up for long..." Yes it will - these are digital products and you've already given away their exclusivity by telling me about them. And countdown clocks, reminder mails and "almost missed it" messages aren't going to help convince me.
- Bonus overload. If you're giving me $4,000 worth of bonuses to get me to buy a $47 product, then either you're an idiot or they aren't really worth that much. Even I can figure that one out.
Bottom line, if you want to send me a freebie, be my guest, but it had better be attached to the mail or on the first linked page. If it's worth having, I'll open your other mails and be more kindly disposed when you want to sell me something. There - that wasn't so hard was it.
I guess it behoves me to say hello and introduce myself - Mark here, most recently associated with the Botfarm, a blog for discussion of all manners of automated money-making bots. My blog there was getting increasingly hijacked by my new interest in IM, so I finally decided to split the blogs and keep both more focussed. I actually obtained the domain name for clickbankrefunds.com so I may migrate to my own hosting at some stage (or at least redirect the domain here). I am also considering a more serious Rake's Progress sort of blog about IM, charting the course of my journey ( maybe to be called The Long Hard Road to Easy Money, and to be hosted at longhardeasy.com ). But in the meantime, there's just so much to laugh at. Bye for now.
