Here’s how it goes… I book a speaker for an event. Audience members love him. He performs in nice clothes, has written books and is obviously a business owner. Said audience member is an entrepreneur or their spouse/sibling/parent/child/aunt/uncle/cousin or dog is an entrepreneur with something to sell. They figure said speaker has money to buy.
They go to said speaker’s website and harvest the only contact email (other than filling out a form) found there. That would be MINE. They plug my email address with the name of the speaker into their database list and FLOOD MY INBOX with something every SINGLE day (and sometimes more).
“Dear Scott. We’ve sent several emails that you’ve not responded to. Click the link below to set-up a time to talk.”
I don’t want to talk. I didn’t ask you to contact me. That’s called SPAM!
These senders don’t care. Someone along the line told them that they should grow a database list with all the email addresses they can get and POUND it constantly. In my case, and probably yours too, that’s really bad advice.
Spamming earns you an immediate “get outta here” from me. Matter of fact, Dharma has watched the unsubscribe/delete/block process so often I’m pretty sure she could do it.
