I cant remember the day I caught on to the concept of ‘Internet Marketing’ and ‘making money online’, but I am certain it did not come too long after signing up (in order to receive something free) to one mailing list or another.
Now skip to a few years and about 30-40 lists later. 
Every now and then someone will regurgitate an email they sent months before, or be so vague in their pitch to send me somewhere (with such a cloaked link that you cant even guess where you may be heading), and I get annoyed. Now I am one of THE MOST EMOTIONALLY STABLE PEOPLE I KNOW.. It takes A lot to ruffle my feathers..
HOWEVER, some of these email guru guys are really beginning to PISS ME OFF.
When I replied to one of them to make a comment, this was my response:
“I’m protecting myself from receiving junk mail.
Please click the link below to complete the verification process.
You have to do this only once. “
protecting themselves from JUNK MAIL… hahaha.. well the laugh is on me until I hit unsubscribe..
My question to you may not be what you expect:
Are NEWBIES SO Prevalent that these people are still sucking them in and making a killing off their lists??
or
Have these mailing list owners gone mad, and are selling their souls in order to get as many conversions as possible, regardless of unsubs and all the guru bashing that goes on behind their backs??
If it is the former, then PEOPLE please sign up as you trickle in, since I want to make a LOT Of money.
~~ andrea
Jeremy (July 16th, 2007 at 6:14 pm )
What? you don’t have the guts to name the ‘email gurus’ that are pissing you off?
FIGHT!!! FIGHT!!! FIGHT!!!
Andrea (July 16th, 2007 at 8:10 pm )
Hmm… will that be good for me? Is there a point to that?
Imagine if I had ..ahem… flamed JC (no not Jesus Christ) and then he did Google background checks on all the auditions!!
I may need to apply to a future reality show
George (July 16th, 2007 at 8:28 pm )
Andrea,
Interesting post. I personally have come across something similar on one of the guru’s lists. I went through some extra hoops to get to the unsubscribe page. I selected to be completely removed from said guru’s lists and confimed the option. Then I got an email from them saying my name would be removed in 24 hours… 3 months later and I still get a pitch a day from them. I have tried to unsubscribe three times. I haven’t contacted them personally, but I guess that would be the next step…
Some of the gurus give great information. I like the good content JC provides in his newsletters. So many other gurus just send out constant pitches, and unfortunately that business model works or they wouldn’t do it… go figure!
Andrea (July 17th, 2007 at 7:09 pm )
George,
Ironically, his is one list I am NOT on… and the great info they provide has lately gotten so lost in the product launches that its hard to even bother reading them anymore…
which thankfully has saved me a couple of thou this past year
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