No she can’t. The crap that has filled my inbox for years has now been sorted. Irritating useless and blathering on internet marketers sending out the same hysterically (not funny, the screaming hysterics) worded crap about their amazing products, their system, their friend who has a product launching, their free offer that will magically escalate to paying for a $5k seminar.
This has been building up for a while. My distaste of pandering to the lowest common denominator of intelligence growing on a daily basis fed by crap journalism and constant contact with smart cynical people online.
Take last week’s furore in Australia over whether an artist’s pictures of a nude 15 year old girl was art or filthy child pornography. Sure it might not be my cup of tea for the lounge room wall but the baying hounds of the press were dead-set on ignoring the fact that intent has a lot to do with what art/pornography is. After a week on the front page being pilloried , the story that censors had deemed the image as “mild” and fully exonerated the artist was carried…in the entertainment section.
That’s why I choose to not read papers on a regular or daily basis, nor watch television.
Back to my brimming inbox that contained emails from about half a dozen to a dozen internet mailing lists. I performed a complete subscribectomy and thought about what I was getting from each one….and NOT ONE was worth my time. Not one was giving me anything but offer,offer,offer. Not one was checking on my welfare or caring about me as a customer or potential customer. The only thing these people wanted me for was to give them money. That was their only intent.
I have a mailing list in a niche. One that I started as a test, one that is sadly neglected. But every word that I have written for the auto-repsonder to send out is sincere and caring, and has no other intent then to help the people who have signed up. There is no product at the end of the newsletter series, there are no “great offers”. Which is why I regularly get emails from people asking me questions and asking for advice. Some are quite heartbreaking.
So why aren’t internet marketing email lists like that? Just great advice and no intent to sell? I would be more inclined to buy what they had if they were genuinely caring about what I want and who I am.