Comments on: Spammed by my local colleagues

By: Christine Auda

Christine Auda — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:43:00 +0000

Bruce,

Excellent rant! I feel your pain, too. As Jim mentioned, a more diplomatic version of this might be great for Paramus! Magazine. Perhaps the winter issue.
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By: bruce colthart

bruce colthart — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:30:11 +0000

I’ll certainly consider it Jim.
By the way, as a fellow Paramus chamber member, I don’t count you among the guilty here; you and Christine know how the game is played. I’m also willing to bet that most of the locally-generated spam I get, you also get. So can you feel my pain, or am I overreacting?

By: Jim Koscs

Jim Koscs — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:07:00 +0000

Bruce,

I wonder if you could write an article for Paramus magazine about this…
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By: Judy Dunn

Judy Dunn — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:10:18 +0000

Hey Bruce,

You bring up some great points here. We belong to a couple of local Chambers and neither one lists email addresses in their directory. It just makes it too easy for people to force a relationship that doesn’t exist and put colleagues on that dreaded newsletter list (without their permission).

Bob and I teach a Marketing with E-newsletters class and I’m always surprised at how many people don’t know they are breaking federal anti-spamming laws when they do that. We have an email we send to businesses that do this to us. It’s not mean, just meant to educate them on what they are doing and offer better ways to build a list. We have actually had people thank us for that email —and apologize! We have shared it with colleagues who have had the same problem.

Our e-newsletter list is relatively small (325) and growing slowly, but the people on it have asked to be there so we have a very small unsubscribe rate (less than 1%).

I look forward to reading your next post!