Unsubscribe
This morning I unsubscribed to many of the emails I get in my inbox. You know. All the ones you signed up for to get the free gift. It is nothing personal. I am just too distracted by all the “free” advice they send me.
Actually, very few of the emails contain any really good free advice. Most of them contain nothing but pitches. Day after day, sometimes several a day, of links that will send my business into orbit.
Since I save all my emails, it was pretty easy to weed them out. When I see an article that contains interesting advice, I usually flag it. I also flag the occasional product that sounds useful.
In fact, I have started a folder called “things I want to buy”. This folder is working out very nicely. It prevents me from making an impulse purchase. I have pretty good sales resistance but sometimes I am tired or in some emotional state that lowers my guard and heck it is only $27 so I buy without thinking. The “things I want to buy” folder has cured this. I move the email, that contains the great offer, into the “want to buy folder”. Hours or better yet days later, I revisit the folder. More often than not I decided I really don’t want to buy that product at all. Either I really don’t need it now or I already have something like it. Or upon further consideration, it doesn’t really look like it is worth the money.
Some marketers I have already come to associate their name to their value. Those are easy. I will keep getting their email and reading what they have to say. And more than likely purchase items I need from them.
Some marketers I couldn’t name off the top of my head but I have flagged a lot of their emails because of the interesting content. I will also continue to receive their emails and consider the offers they make.
The rest who send nothing but pitches are now history. I would say I cleared out about 50% of my incoming email and I will be revisiting this process in a few more days to see where else I can make useful trims.
One last note. I have been receiving emails lately that I do not like. I call them confessionals. It started with the guy who is depressed. Then the one getting divorced. Now a guy is actually having a sale somehow tied in to the fact that his child died. Come on guys. I shudder to think what is next up.
Hi, I am from John Thornhill’s inner circle. You responded to my post about getting so many offers. You give some good advice here and I think I will use it! Have you had any success online yet? I have not made a dime yet, I really hope John’s course changes all that. I think I will check out some of your google adds
some of them look interesting to me. How do you know if your getting any traffic on your blog other then someone leaving a comment? I have my blog up and running http://howard-platt.com but I have no clue if anyone has ventured over to do any reading. Anyways thanks for the advice! One more thing…do you get alot of offers from the inner circle? I get 3 or 4 a day!