{"id":814,"date":"2009-08-11T10:09:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T00:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2012-02-23T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T05:29:27","slug":"ask-before-sharing-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/08\/ask-before-sharing-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask before sharing emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all hate spam. Most of us get too many emails to deal with them all properly. We don&#8217;t have time to read every enewsletter, not even time to read all the good ones, so we can&#8217;t subscribe to them all and stay sane!<\/p>\n<p>So why then do some business people think it&#8217;s ok to subscribe to you their lists without your permission?<\/p>\n<p>Just because I am your friend or I have done some work for you does not mean I want to read your newsletter &#8211; rather, I may <em>want <\/em>to but I probably don&#8217;t have the time to read something I haven&#8217;t carefully selected.<\/p>\n<p>A number of people have added me to their lists because they know me, or because I wrote for them or because\u00a0I gave them a quote to write for them! None of these behaviours is acceptable to me &#8211; sure send me a copy and invite me to subscribe, but don&#8217;t just subscribe me.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of specific recent examples that will hopefully help you avoid annoying potential (or actual) clients&#8230;<\/p>\n<li>I attempted to watch an online seminar. I gave my email address purely for access to the seminar (there was no disclaimer I was signing to a newsletter) and she started sending me 3 or 4 emails a week. What&#8217;s worse is the seminar never worked so I have no reason to read even one of those emails<\/li>\n<li>I responded to a newsletter which mentioned a particular offer; I asked for a few details so I could decide if I was interested. Next thing, I am getting emails from two totally unrelated people. What&#8217;s worse, both those people are including me in a cc field with a whole group of people! So not only am I getting unwanted emails from people I never gave my email to in the first place, they are sharing my email with other people! Not the way to impress me into using their services I assure you<\/li>\n<li>someone who contacted me two years ago, and who has not maintained a relationship with me, recently added a new arm to her business and has subscribed me to that new arm&#8217;s newsletter. I have never contacted her or shown an interest in her services, so why can she assume I want her newsletter?<\/li>\n<p>So to avoid annoying people and therefore potentially loosing clients and getting bad word of mouth, remember:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>don&#8217;t subscribe people to your newsletter. EVER. Send a single copy and invite them, but do not subscribe them without their knowledge &amp; permission<\/li>\n<li>if sending a group email, use the bcc field not the cc field unless it a discussion and all parties are aware of each other. Especially as emails can be forwarded so who knows where my email address would end up&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t give someone else&#8217;s email address to others for their newsletter. It&#8217;s one thing to give it as a referral (e.g. &#8220;Email Tash on &#8230; as she&#8217;s a great writer&#8221;) but otherwise you should protect the emails you have been entrusted with. If in doubt, ask if it&#8217;s ok to pass on someone&#8217;s details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all hate spam. Most of us get too many emails to deal with them all properly. We don&#8217;t have time to read every enewsletter, not even time to read all the good ones, so we can&#8217;t subscribe to them all and stay sane! So why then do some business people think it&#8217;s ok to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","category-newsletter-content"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3581,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}