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Old 27-02-2006, 08:37 AM
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I wrote an article on this some time ago:
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sehr interessant.

however, I am not against unsoliceted email. And I dont feel obliged to have an opt out link.

people call my number all the time out of the blue offering me cheaper phone calls and everything. It's a bit anoying, but thats the world we've got - so accept it. I don't see why you have to take a moral high ground with email.

If you have compiled your mailing list yourself, of what you believe are potential customers, then you have every right to contact them as far as i am concerned. Afterall, they are also businesses puting their names out in the public forum. If they dont like it they should have got a normal job instead.

obviously you dont want to pee off any potentail clients, so you have to use some self control. I would keep the emails light, with simple clean html & css. I normaly test them on myself first to see how they rate with spam assasin & how outlook handles them. Personaly, I send html email with a plain text alternative.

To avoid the peeing off factor, I wouldnt mail the same prospect more than twice a year.

so far that philosophy has worked okay for me.
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sehr interessant.

however, I am not against unsoliceted email. And I dont feel obliged to have an opt out link.

people call my number all the time out of the blue offering me cheaper phone calls and everything. It's a bit anoying, but thats the world we've got - so accept it. I don't see why you have to take a moral high ground with email.
So if there was zero spam filtering on your mail you would be happy?

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If you have compiled your mailing list yourself, of what you believe are potential customers, then you have every right to contact them as far as i am concerned. Afterall, they are also businesses puting their names out in the public forum. If they dont like it they should have got a normal job instead.
A lot depends on how you actually contact them. There is a very fine line between a valid business lead and spamming. If you overstep it you can end up being blacklisted.
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however, I am not against unsoliceted email. And I dont feel obliged to have an opt out link.
You really, really should have an opt-out link. In fact, you really shouldn't be sending unsolicited mail.

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people call my number all the time out of the blue offering me cheaper phone calls and everything. It's a bit anoying, but thats the world we've got - so accept it. I don't see why you have to take a moral high ground with email.
AFAIK they're on legally dubious ground doing that.

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If you have compiled your mailing list yourself, of what you believe are potential customers, then you have every right to contact them as far as i am concerned. Afterall, they are also businesses puting their names out in the public forum. If they dont like it they should have got a normal job instead.
I believe everybody in the world is a customer for my new herbal mortgage enlargement pills. Am I allowed spam them?

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obviously you dont want to pee off any potentail clients, so you have to use some self control. I would keep the emails light, with simple clean html & css. I normaly test them on myself first to see how they rate with spam assasin & how outlook handles them. Personaly, I send html email with a plain text alternative.
Emails should NOT be HTML.

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To avoid the peeing off factor, I wouldnt mail the same prospect more than twice a year.
Really, more than once probably isn't a good idea.

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so far that philosophy has worked okay for me.
Unless I'm picking you up badly wrong, you would appear to be more part of the problem than the solution.
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Emails should NOT be HTML.
That depends on the type of email.
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I am interested mainly in Salesforce's email marketing facilities. Any comments, good or bad would be appreciated.

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I am interested mainly in their email marketing facilities. Any comments, good or bad would be appreciated.

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Ok, so why didn't you reply to that thread?
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