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[Peter Montgomery Contribution Level: 3]

I just checked my inbox and one HIGH PROFILE marketer sent me 4 emails yesterday. On average they send 1 or 2 EVERY day...I stopped opening them months ago but I'm on their list to monitor their habits and behaviour. I open one up every now and then but come on 4 in one day!!!

Would love your thoughts on this one so please comment below.

Pete.

[David Nieuwenhoven Company: LifePath Unlimited Contribution Level: 3]

Hi Peter,

If the person is using an auto-responder which it sounds like, then 4 emails is way to many.

Most people who know what they are doing will send only 1 email a day or every second day for a week, then space them out over a few months.

Too me i dont care if they are the top earner 4 emails a day is starting to sound like they are desperate. lol

Easy thing to do is hit the unsubscibe button and I am sure if you are interested in what they are offering you will know where to find them:)

David

[Peter Montgomery Contribution Level: 3]

Thanks David,

You're spot on.
They are top earners. So their story and all the social proof says

I posted this on facebook too. Here's the response:

Peter Montgomery
How many emails do you think is enough?

I just checked my inbox and one HIGH PROFILE marketer sent me 4 emails yesterday. On average they send 1 or 2 EVERY day...I stopped opening them months ago but I'm on their list to monitor their habits and behaviour. I open one up every now and then but come on 4 in one day!!!

Would love your thoughts on this one so please comment below.

Pete.


6 hours ago · Like ·
Thor Saleswarlord likes this.

Peter Montgomery Hey Thor,

Definitely want your thoughts on this one mate!
What d'ya reckon?
6 hours ago · Like

Thor Saleswarlord
Look I suppose it depends on how engaged someone is...

If you downloaded their stuff but you don't open it and your just looking at their habits it's hard to say whether it's effective if you're not their niche.

I had a woman critique one of our sites today who said she wouldn't watch our video because it was 5 mins...

I said - well you're not my client!

She said - but I could have been.

I said - nope, because if you were truly engaged by my headline and topic you would spend the time to learn...

I then checked her profile and she's an "internet marketer" so she was just negging to draw attention away from our promo and onto her "expertise"...

Credibility shot down right there...

My argument is this.

People will take the time if you have their attention in the first place and it's all about THEM and something THEY care about.

My video is targeted at business who need help with marketing not pro's who want to "compete" with me and make my style wrong so they can appear right...

If you really cared about and read the subject matter you would be delighted to get more juicy content...

If you aren't reading it and don't care you would unsubscribe.

Either way the marketer wins...


6 hours ago · Unlike · 1 person

Roxanne Storlie
I think more than 1 email a day from a business is enough. Friends talking about stuff is different. With the volume of information I must sift through each day I don't want to get multiples from the same source.
6 hours ago · Like

Thor Saleswarlord
Again though Roxanne if it was super duper valuable info on sewing business breakthroughs that would affect you directly and make you / save you money and time...

Well you might want up to the minute up dates...

But if it's from "a business" well that pretty much sums it up.

Specific information that solves a specific niche's problem is VALUED by that niche...

Spam is deleted.

Why niche down to the razor sharp edge?

The answers are right under your nose here on this thread!
6 hours ago · Like

Stuart Munro
Being a high Profile marketer, they are flying extremely close to almost pushing through the envelope of SPAM in my opinion
6 hours ago · Like

Stuart Munro
They should know better
6 hours ago · Like

Thor Saleswarlord
But this is all so non specific - better than what?

If you're their niche and you WANT the info its NOT spam.

If you're just a freeple downloading crap you're never going to use to try and emulate something you don't even understand you STILL subscribed...

If you put your details in and say you want more info regular like aren't you getting exactly what you asked for?
6 hours ago · Like

Roxanne Storlie
I agree Thor. If it is business specific to my business it is of value. The ones that bug me is the people who regurgitate the same thing in multiple emails or facebook or even twitter. IF each one had a different bit of information I am more appreciative.
6 hours ago · Like

Dulcie Nielsen
I had certain emails I used to always read. Then when i started getting a number from the same place in one day I found I couldn't fit any more in. I didn't have time to read them all. I wished they'd but their info in a nutshell for me. I ended up doing just what you are doing. If the subject line really grabbed me I'd open it. I began sorting them by their subject line.
6 hours ago · Like

Denese Foy
We had a spam email that my husband clicked on the remove me link we are still receiving the same emails almost daily at least two sometimes we have also got four and they are sent almost the same time I agree very annoying
6 hours ago · Like

Thor Saleswarlord
Yeah I got a bloke in India who added me without asking and I have unsubscribed 4 times so far...

Some people are crap!

But if I had subscribed...
6 hours ago · Like

Natasha Dowling
that puts me off- I tend to open emails when i see just a few in the label - who has time to read all their emails, with one greater thing after the other? I also really like it when some marketers put video tips in the emails.....
5 hours ago · Like

Roxanne Storlie
I agree with the subscribing. If I find value in it great. If the marketer starts driving me crazy, I quickly unscribe.
5 hours ago · Like

Arthur Huis Int Veld
they still got ur attention
5 hours ago · Like

Katryna Tancred
I enjoy informative emails but no matter how much I get out of the content they send I would no longer subscribe if they sent me more than 1 a day. 4 seems desperate, almost like they are trying to spew all this info out before you unsubscribe...
3 hours ago · Unlike · 1 person

Jeff Murphy
That F'n pisses me off. It looks cheap and needy. You are right to expose this Pete. Internet Market Trolls!
2 hours ago · Like

Sandy Moore
Yes Jeff, I'm with you! Pete 4 a day is just over the top. What I find is you subscribe to get a valuable peice of information advertised and then all mail following is usually trying to sell you something... If you can't give a little value mixed in with your sales info... really you don't have a real grip on marketing techniques required to be successful.
about an hour ago · Like · 1 person

[Mario Sanders Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 6]

If you send emails out, there must be a point somewhere that you will get a response.
I believe that must be a line somewhere to tell you is it worth the trouble to send so many emails but only get 2-3 responses and less actually buyers.
Run the numbers on the ratio of number of emails sent in relations to response that actually turn in to a sale.
Let's say you send 1,000 emails out. You get 10% response and out of that 10% turn into actual sales.
That equals to out of 1,000 emails you get only 10 to actually turn into a sale. That is not a good response. You are not reaching your market of readers.
Try changing your strategy to get the response you are expecting. You have listeners but little reponses that turn into actual sales.
If you can get 100 emails and 10% turns into actual sales, then you can say you are reaching your target market.
Stay with the formula that works. You'll probably never get 100% of sales but somewhere in the middle would be a good start!

[Mario Sanders Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 6]

ON the other hand, if you are getting a lot of emails, you will begin to ignore them just like the pop-ups on the computer.
They can be annoying to have them all the time. Some are good to have when you are in the market for that product. But most of the time, you get emails that you don't care to bother with. Responding to unsubscribe let the other person know that there is a real person on the other side. Then other emails will continue.
Any thing you are not in the market for is too much.

[Rob Hammond Company: Global Virtual Opportunities Contribution Level: 4]

Here's a very good combination:
One morning email that gives a lot of content and a call to action in the PS. One very short afternoon email that gives just a call to action.
This will work all day every day.
Keep Rocking,
Rob

[Isabella Fiorentino Company: CarbonCopyPRO Contribution Level: 3]

@ Rob Awesome! Being fired means you are psychologically unemployable! And if you're an Entrepreneur it's the only way to be! And yes I agree that if you send one content filled email in the morning and one short call to action email in the afternoon it will keep you in the forefront of your prospects' minds! Way to go!

[Rob Hammond Company: Global Virtual Opportunities Contribution Level: 4]

psychologically unemployable

lol

[Isabella Fiorentino Company: CarbonCopyPRO Contribution Level: 3]

[Rob Bright Contribution Level: 2]

Wow 4 in one day seems way too much to me, I would have sending one every 4 - 5 days consistently as that seems to work well for me.

Then again it depends what you are sendign and to who, if its massivley valuable information that will help me I will read every bit of it