Email Marketing Mystery: The Case Of The Duplicate Freaky Email
Marketing Message
The other day a friend of mine received a rather strange Email
Marketing message. What made it even more odd was that this was
the second time he had received the identical type of message in
just a few weeks.
When he told what the Email message said the hair on the back of
my neck started to crawl. I got a little freaked out. Was
something from the metaphysical trying to send a message to my
friend via these emails?
What else could be the reason for such a strange Email Marketing
message?
I, being the Internet snoopy pants that all my friends know me
to 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 of
the email messages, I was shocked to find out he had indeed
subscribed to these lists.
So, my case of the Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing message had
a 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 Email
Marketing lists. I pondered the possibility that there might
just be some connection to the metaphysical with the Email list
owners. Who knows - maybe the late Cory Rudl had decided heaven
was too boring without an Internet and decided to return and was
starting out by sending my friend these messages.
-The first Email list belonged to a person who claimed to know
everything in the known universe about Pinging Blogs.
-The other list belonged to a person who is quite well known in
the informational Internet marketing community. (Translation
selling e-books, online courses and other related stuff like
that.)
Well, I found no sign of Cory Rudl trying to send my friend a
message. There did not seem to be a connection with the owners
and the metaphysical. I moved on.
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message Investigation Step
Three:
Since I did not receive the Email Marketing messages myself I
knew I needed to see them just to make sure my friend was
relating the information to me correctly. Who knows maybe his
new pair of glasses had the wrong prescription in them or
something. I had to make sure what he told me was actually true.
This is where I still get a little freaked out, even after
having had intense hypno-therapy, with the nature of these Email
Marketing messages.
Two separate Email Marketing messages from two separate list
owners told my friend to:
'Get off his ass'
Just so you believe me here is an excerpt from one of the Email
Marketing messages:
I want to encourage you to: -get out of your house -get out of
your head -get out of your chair -get off your ass and get out
from in front of the screen and see what the real millionaires
in this business are really up to
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message Investigation Step
Four:
I thought long and hard about the implications of two un-related
Email Marketing messages, from two separate Email list owners,
sending the same message.
Could these Email Marketing messages be a sign of direction from
a metaphysical being who thought my friend was lazy? Were these
messages an attempt to encourage my friend to, well, 'get off
his ass' and seek another activity?
Since I had already found no direct link with the list owners
and the metaphysical I knew I needed help. Having no connection
myself to any such metaphysical element I determined a psychic
would 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 a
lot like 'Buy Google Stock' and then burst into gales of
laughter.
She invited me to stay for the rest of the day and meditate with
her.
Because I really cared about my friend and knew I was getting
close to the answer I agreed to stay.
I found out her version of meditating was scoping around the
Internet via Google until my eyes were swollen and hanging out
of their sockets. Regardless, I do think that after 10 hours of
surfing I was definitely in the alpha state.
Madame Emael told me tales of wonder and awe that day as we
zipped around the Internet. I also solved the case of the
Duplicate Freaky Email Marketing Message.
Were beings from the metaphysical sending my friend the message
to -
'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 the
moving truck driver.
You don't give your Email list members the message that they are
lazy.
I got back to my friend and told him his near metaphysical
experience was a hoax.
He told me he was considering un-subscribing from the Blog and
Ping 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 with
Email Marketing - we take out our crystal ball and chant
something that sounds a lot like
'did that guy just say I was...'
And ask the metaphysical gods if we should press the unsubscribe
button.