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The Add Me! Newsletter *** ISSUE #10 ***
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I HATE SPAM ! ! ! !
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January 12th, 1999 *** ISSUE #10 ***
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.....THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE.....
I HATE SPAM ! ! ! !
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Now there's a statement that brings smiles to many
and frowns to few.
But before I place myself on the chopping block I
want to place a few facts on the table.
Spam, a unique type of meat and an even more unique
form of advertising has been my main course for over
4 years. And I would have to scratch away several
thousands of monthly earnings if it were not for the
brave souls that sling their spam messages into my
email.
I, myself, am as cowardly as they are brave. Because
I don't have the guts to chance losing my provider
service simply to market my wares. The interruption
time would cost me too much money.
Yet there are those who bravely take a chance on total
disconnect from the internet and in some cases to
actually be prosecuted in courts by their provider
service, just for the opportunity to send me an email
concerning questions of my desires or interest in their
products or services
Well, as I've stated in past commentary, "I am a firm
believer in free enterprise." And I have little to say
against these brave Cyber frontier men and women who
are willing to fight the giants that are already trying
to rule the internet.
It was spam that first got me to try making my own
website using a free web host. Both found through
spam email.
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It was information found in spam that placed working
tools in my hands to promote my classified sites and
produce my first income on the internet.
And it was spam that brought in an opportunity that
now feeds me a growing check that is soon to pass the
$10,000 per month mark.
Spam can be an aggravation. And it is possible for
it to even cripple your online service. But in my
experience spam has been nothing more (or less) than
a way for me to receive knowledge, idealogogies and
opportunities.
And it has given me insight to the mind workings of
thousands of people and hundreds of areas of the
world that I would not have had an inkling of an
idea of how to obtain by any other means.
No! I am not inviting junk mail. I have no interest
in the sexiest doll in Irucurbania or the tilted
lifestyle of Bogus Rumpus.
But way back when I was the newbie of newbies I did
learn how to click and delete. And I can do it in
bunches in the same amount of time that I can do one.
So the pain of spam is minimal compared to the riches
of new ideas and new people I meet through the so
called spammers.
My simple process of quick delete, save for later
folder and read now has made email reading a pleasure.
Because I never fail to find a new idea or a new
friend in the large mailings I recieve. And because
I welcome all email I get the newest of the new in
what's happening on an everyday basis.
Yes, it looks awesome, even a bit overwhelming to
see 1000, 2000 or more emails piled into my email
box. But after a quick view and delete the number
is down to half. Second run puts them in a view
later folder and third run gets my immediate interest.
So I doubt I spend much more time reading email than
someone that gets 100 emails a day. You just get use
to looking for certain things in the subject areas or
certain return email address's.
So, before you go supporting the anti-spamming big
boys, who don't want to compete with spam because
they can't control it or make money from it theirselves
by forcing you to go through them. You know of whom
I speak. The ones that have decided All Others Lose.
The ones that You Always Have Other Options with so
long as you do it their way. The giants that are
already segragating the internet population into
untouchable groups and catagories that can only be
reached through their channels at their price.
Before you buy into their propaganda and damn the
average netter for trying to market their wares ...
just give spam a fair shake.
Not only are you helping the big boys to cut your
throat by eliminating your rights to market, but
you are rapidly helping them strip away the right
to free enterprise on the supposedly free internet.
In just a matter of a couple of years the bulging
giants have gained control of most of the effective
advertising avenues including the search engines.
Spam has become the only method left to the average
netter that some giant foot hasn't already stomped
and molded into their own working payoff tool.
Just keep in mind that marketing on the net is no
different than out in the real world. The independent
entreprenuer is still little more than the lamb among
wolves. And unless the lambs group together and stay
in bunches we will surely parish in their giant nashing
teeth.
(The views of this commentary are solely the expressed
views of Dan Adams and do not necessarily reflect the
views of Add Me, Buyers n' Barters, BnB Classifieds or
the Louisville Independent Associates Group)
Dan Adams, mktg. mgr
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