Where Do Gurus Get Their Lists??
Trina L.C.
Sonnenberg
I have been marketing online, for many, many years
now. I have subscribed to many programs and newsletters, and I've downloaded
many products, so of course, I have given out my email address to others. I
regularly sign up for things, just to check them out, so I really need to have a
system, in order to keep track of everything. And, I use email as little as
possible, for communicating with people.
I always use the same email address when signing up for
business related things, and I have another email address that I use strictly
for personal things. However, being a domain owner, and webmaster, I have a
great many email addresses, which I use for very specific other things as well.
I am very specific with which email address I use for what; so that I can avoid
as much spam as possible. And, I no longer post an email address on any of my
web sites. My contact information includes a link to a message center, where I
can be contacted directly to my desktop.
Now, with all of that said, I
would really like to know how Shawn Casey got my personal email address. I get
promotional email from him all the time, to my personal email account.
They are all nicely customized to include my first name, so I'm listed
in an autoresponder.There is an unsubscribe link, but that doesn't seem too
useful. I've clicked on it more than once.
I am a subscriber of Mr.
Casey's, but not at that email address!
Not to single anyone out,
(Shawn, is just one example.) I get email from most of the Guru programs
I've ever, requested information about, to every email box I have, on every
domain I own. What is up with that? I mean, I get email from these guys, at
boxes I've never used before! I set them up, just to check out a therory...
I got to thinking about it, and the only conclusion that I can draw is
this: They buy their lists from brokers. Remember, I said this is my conclusion,
my opinion. Either that, or some sort of spectacular software program is
busily harvesting WHOIS information.
I'm sure that some of my pre-RSS
email addresses are floating around the Internet, but still... That leads us
back to harvesting.
Are these guys making buckets of money, selling
information about list building, while purchasing, or havesting, email addresses
off the web, to build their own? I wonder...?
What do you think? Have
you experienced this type of thing? Tell me about it.
Have an
awesome day!
Trii
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Keywords: list building, email harvesting, gurus
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