It’s really time consuming and then you’ve got third party processors harvesting your signup email to send out spam. We just switched to Jettis for that reason and others.
I also have a ton of filters that I still have to scroll through because shit I want to read get caught in there. I have a staff person who spends at least 4 hours per day going through tons of email. Fetishnetwork.com has been online a long long time… we get so much email there it’s not funny. I actually had to set it to an auto reply so that
anyone@fetishnetwork.com would get a reply giving great detail on whom to write and why.
I like to read about specials, promotions, content updates, etc. but I hate it when these fucking people get carried away by sending me shit several times a week or they pass email address along to people who have nothing to offer me or I didn’t register/sign on for.
It makes you wonder how effective email marketing is. I haven’t bought any and I probably wouldn’t. Everyone I know clicks delete.
Once or twice a week I get an email from some dumb fuck who claims he never agreed to have his name on my newsletter list. He or she then threatens to report me…in fact I’m probably on a spam senders list. My newsletter software requires email verification that you joined the list. We ALWAYS have an unsubscribe link at the bottom. I wonder how AOL & the like plan on handling this & if I’m going to have to prove what I use, give some asshole access to my server, etc. When you’ve got someone who subscribed, forgot or his wife found his password.
Grrrr…
DV