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Email Marketing Mystery: The Case Of The Duplicate Freaky Email
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By Joan Pasay --Copyright 2005
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The other day a friend of mine received a rather strange EmailMarketing message. What made it even more odd was that this wasthe second time he had received the identical type of message injust a few weeks.
When he told what the Email message said the hair on the back ofmy neck started to crawl. I got a little freaked out. Wassomething from the metaphysical trying to send a message to myfriend via these emails?
What else could be the reason for such a strange Email Marketingmessage?
I, being the Internet snoopy pants that all my friends know meto be, decided I had to find out.
Like all good Internet detectives I started from the beginning.
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message Investigation Step One:
I had to know if my friend subscribed to these Email lists.Thinking the answer would surely be no based on the oddity ofthe email messages, I was shocked to find out he had indeedsubscribed to these lists.
So, my case of the Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing message hada beginning - Opt In Email Marketing.
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message Investigation Step Two:
I thought it would be prudent to find out who owned these EmailMarketing lists. I pondered the possibility that there mightjust be some connection to the metaphysical with the Email listowners. Who knows - maybe the late Cory Rudl had decided heavenwas too boring without an Internet and decided to return and wasstarting out by sending my friend these messages.
-The first Email list belonged to a person who claimed to knoweverything in the known universe about Pinging Blogs.
-The other list belonged to a person who is quite well known inthe informational Internet marketing community. (Translationselling e-books, online courses and other related stuff likethat.)
Well, I found no sign of Cory Rudl trying to send my friend amessage. There did not seem to be a connection with the ownersand the metaphysical. I moved on.
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message Investigation StepThree:
Since I did not receive the Email Marketing messages myself Iknew I needed to see them just to make sure my friend wasrelating the information to me correctly. Who knows maybe hisnew pair of glasses had the wrong prescription in them orsomething. I had to make sure what he told me was actually true.
This is where I still get a little freaked out, even afterhaving had intense hypno-therapy, with the nature of these EmailMarketing messages.
Two separate Email Marketing messages from two separate listowners told my friend to:
'Get off his ass'
Just so you believe me here is an excerpt from one of the EmailMarketing messages:
I want to encourage you to: -get out of your house -get out ofyour head -get out of your chair -get off your ass and get outfrom in front of the screen and see what the real millionairesin this business are really up to
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message Investigation StepFour:
I thought long and hard about the implications of two un-relatedEmail Marketing messages, from two separate Email list owners,sending the same message.
Could these Email Marketing messages be a sign of direction froma metaphysical being who thought my friend was lazy? Were thesemessages an attempt to encourage my friend to, well, 'get offhis ass' and seek another activity?
Since I had already found no direct link with the list ownersand the metaphysical I knew I needed help. Having no connectionmyself to any such metaphysical element I determined a psychicwould probably be the best bet for an answer.
Madame Emael was, well, a little unconventional in her approach.
I told her my story.
She got out her crystal ball chanted a few things that sounded alot like 'Buy Google Stock' and then burst into gales oflaughter.
She invited me to stay for the rest of the day and meditate withher.
Because I really cared about my friend and knew I was gettingclose to the answer I agreed to stay.
I found out her version of meditating was scoping around theInternet via Google until my eyes were swollen and hanging outof their sockets. Regardless, I do think that after 10 hours ofsurfing I was definitely in the alpha state.
Madame Emael told me tales of wonder and awe that day as wezipped around the Internet. I also solved the case of theDuplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message.
Were beings from the metaphysical sending my friend the messageto -
'get off his ass' because he was lazy?
Madame Emael let me in on a secret.
My friend had experienced what is becoming quite common -Receiving offensive Email Marketing messages that cross the line.
Is there a lesson to be learned here?
"Get off your ass"
is something you tell your lazy brother in law who thinks'helping you move' means drinking beer and flirting with themoving truck driver.
You don't give your Email list members the message that they arelazy.
I got back to my friend and told him his near metaphysicalexperience was a hoax.
He told me he was considering un-subscribing from the Blog andPing guy's Email Marketing list as he was rather offended by the'ass email' incident.
He has decided to give the other list owner another chance.
I guess that is what happens when someone crosses the line withEmail Marketing - we take out our crystal ball and chantsomething that sounds a lot like
'did that guy just say I was...'
And ask the metaphysical gods if we should press the unsubscribebutton.
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