About 6 months ago I signed up for the mailing list of a young man who appeared to have fairly unique content, and a bit of a contrarian approach to list building and marketing.
However, somewhere along the line, things changed. He started sending out e-mail pitches for various products. Ok, it was enough of a pitch increase that I noticed.
Then in the last few weeks, the e-mails became more urgent. I started noticing that he would sometimes e-mail twice a day.
Finally, a couple weeks ago, he began promoting a teleseminar to his list. Apparently the teleseminar sign-ups must have not been panning out too well. Why? Well, because in a span of 6 hours, I received 5 e-mails……….each one with what appeared to be a rising, but barely disguised desperation level. 3 of the e-mails came within 30 minutes of the seminar.
Enough was enough……instead of signing up for the seminar, I unsubscribed from his list. I don’t appreciate the pummeling - especially in so short a time period. If you don’t respect my time, I won’t respect your offers.
Its too bad too, because I buy thousands of dollars worth of marketing products a year, and some were referred by you, thus earning you fat affiliate payments. I rarely unsubscribe from interesting lists - I’ve been on some lists for over 7 YEARS, happily buying commisionable products that seem interesting to me.
BUT, I’m a busy man. Don’t waste my time with your e-mail pummeling. Time is my most precious commodity. And time-wasters piss me off to no end and cause my wallet to slam shut tighter than a clam.
Mr. P