• From: Pendleton, New York
  • Registered: 2009-10-31
  • Posts: 1,825

Topic: How to Avoid Spamvertising

There was a recent member that lost their ACME account due to spamming via emails.

I was disheartened a bit by this because there are many that honestly do not understand what spamming is, nor do they realize that they are even spamming at all.

Although, there is already a topic on CanSpam here at the forum what I am going to touch on is even if you do not know or are unsure of whether or not you might be spamming, here are some tips to that will assist you so that you are not considered a spammer with your APS business.

The ideal thing with this or any business is to not use your affiliate links directly. What this means is, create a free blog to cover the APS business that contains your affiliate links. Or if you are a bit more advanced, host your own blog or website to do this.

By creating a blog/website you are doing several things, providing content for people to read, branding yourself and your blog/site will get indexed by Google, Yahoo, MsN etc. (This creates organic traffic) Affiliate links directly do not get indexed and your marketing efforts are truly wasted.

Okay, having said the above I will address the real issue here, emails!

When I receive the hundreds of emails in my inbox everyday I do not have the right to email them back with an opportunity.

I do the exact same thing that I do in social marketing, I reply if the email content warrants a reply (very few do) and I put all my information within my signature. Do NOT PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS! I do this even if I am replying to their email to be removed from their list!

DO NOT USE YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS FOR ANY MAILINGS TO LEADS EVEN IF THEY ARE PURCHASED LEADS!

The quickest way to be accused of spamming is using your personal email account for mailing to LEADS OR PURCHASED LEADS.

If you have leads then use an autoresponder in which they must OPT IN to your campaign. The key to this is having the opt in email written in such a way as to entice your leads to want more by clicking that confirmation link!

DO NOT PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS in the this confirmation email! NEVER PUT AN AFFILIATE LINK OR ANY LINK OTHER THAN THE CONFIRMATION LINK WITHIN THIS OPT IN EMAIL!

This method for leads to opt in has worked extremely well for me. Creating the right content in that confirmation email is trial and error but do not use the generic confirmation that comes with the autoresponder, IT NEVER WORKS!

The #1 Rule to prevent "spamvertising":

If you are in doubt, throw it out!
Simply Don't do it!

Your very best bet if you are still unsure of any aspect of emailing, ask the question here at the forum first!

To Your APS Business Success!

Amy

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  • Trickle
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Re: How to Avoid Spamvertising

Amy

This is an excellent post thank you, if I receive spam emails, I generally report them to spam coup to deal with, and I never use leads, you never know, where they come from, but that is up to each individual to decide.

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  • From: Pendleton, New York
  • Registered: 2009-10-31
  • Posts: 1,825

Re: How to Avoid Spamvertising

Let me be more specific, very few I reply to, only those that ask a specific question, I answer it and that is all, with signature fully loaded.

Then those that say "if you wish to be removed reply to this email with "remove" in the subject. I do exactly that but with a request to be removed in the body as well with my signature smile

On many occasions I do have to report spam as well.

Happy Marketing!

Amy

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  • Trickle
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Re: How to Avoid Spamvertising

Hello

I have just had an email from a friend to say, that there is a hacker with an account from hotmail, that, if you open that email, it gains access to your computer and destroys it, this has been confirmed, so it will probably be best to ignore spam for the time being, until they sort this problem out, I would hate for anyone here to loose everything due to a spammer.

There are some nasty people outside,  the email address of the hacker, is simon@hotmail.co.uk, do not open, or you can say goodbye to your computer.

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  • Registered: 2010-01-18
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Re: How to Avoid Spamvertising

Trickle wrote:

Hello

I have just had an email from a friend to say, that there is a hacker with an account from hotmail, that, if you open that email, it gains access to your computer and destroys it, this has been confirmed, so it will probably be best to ignore spam for the time being, until they sort this problem out, I would hate for anyone here to loose everything due to a spammer.

There are some nasty people outside,  the email address of the hacker, is simon@hotmail.co.uk, do not open, or you can say goodbye to your computer.

What about twitter?  do you call that spam?

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  • Registered: 2009-07-08
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Re: How to Avoid Spamvertising

Twitter is not spamming if you use it the right way. You should use it to help others see your opportunity and not just post links to them all day long...if you use it to network with other people and to brand yourself, you should be fine. I would just stay away from posting the same links over and over all day long smile You have have good content, brand yourself, and people will be more likely to look at what you are  promoting and more likely to join you smile

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