Archive for the ‘The Life of an Email Marketer’ Category

How to Unsubscribe from our SPAM - A Video Tutorial

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Don’t ask me how I found this, but it is amazing, and totally serious. I’m not sure how people would ever get to this from these Drug spam emails, but you have to watch. “It is not your intent to annoy or harass our customers…”

Best Unsubscribe Ever

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Even though email marketing is a permission based marketing channel (hopefully), you still get some irate emails in all caps requesting removal.  Emails like “REMOVE ME NOW, I HOPE YOU DIE” or “I WILL NEVER USE YOUR COMPANY” are common replies. What can you do?

This particular email was a small victory in the email wars:

“Remove me please.  Nice looking AD, by the way.”

Validation of great creative from a unsubscriber. What more can an email marketer ask for?