Bingo - You're Cancelled

---

What is the value of the E-mail lists that promise to ...
message to millions of ... clients? We all get ...
E-mails every day, and many are sent this ... examine this What is the value of the E-mail lists that promise to "blast"your message to millions of potential clients? We all get manyunsolicited E-mails every day, and many are sent this way.Let's examine this a bit.It starts off with an E-mail you receive promising huge returnsfor the expenditure of a relatively small amount of money.
Justthink - for only $200 you can get your message out to a millionpeople who are on the general subscriber list of AOL members."Wow" - you think - "even if I only get one half of one percent,that will be 5,000 customers". Now they also offer a "targeted"list of one million for $400.
Advertisers in the know, say youcan expect up to a 3 percent return from a targeted list - that's30,000 customers.They do the mailing and you won't have problems with your ISP(Internet Service Provider) who will cancel your account forspamming. How do they do this? Simple - they do not list youraddress in the copy they send out, and they use a "forged"address in the header.
Try responding to any offer you receiveand, most of the time it will be returned as undeliverable.These spammers usually provide a telephone number you can call,where you will get a pre-recorded bit of hype, and a message tosend your money to their P.O. Box.So what is a realistic response rate? Well folks don't startpacking your bags for that vacation to Tahiti.
The only peoplemaking any money with this are the people conning you into payingthem to send out your E-mail. I have received numerous notesfrom people who told me they paid "big bucks" to these companiesand didn't get ANY responses.
I've also received reports frompeople who thought that a mailing was never made, even thoughthey paid for it - how do you prove they didn't send it.But wait there is an even better deal. You can get a CD with15,000,000 addresses for only $199.
"Now" you might think, "if Ican 5,000-30,000 customers from one million, how many customerscan I get with 15 million".The first question I would have, is how are you going to send outyour 15 million E-mails without having your ISP cancel youraccount. Most free ISP's put a limit of 50 E-mails you can sendout at one time.
Let's see 15 million divided by 50 would equal300,000 mailings. Figure 20 minutes per mailing, it would takeover 6 years, working 8 hours a day, to send a mailing toeveryone on the list.
Ever wonder how many of those addresseswill be valid next month, let alone 6 years from now?Does that mean you will have to wait 6 years before you can startpacking your bags? Not hardly - there are some people whose maingoal in life is get the E-mail accounts of spammers canceled.There is even software that makes the complaints automatically.But you think, I have software that can send out many thousandsat a time. Granted, but all this means is your account will becanceled by your ISP faster.
Most keep "logs" of E-mail sentout, and examine the content of large mailings. If it is acommercial message - Bingo - You're Cancelled.
Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com .