But why should I spend hours of my time unsubscribing from lists I didn’t ask to be on? How dare you put me on a list without my consent?. If the first time your newsletter comes to me it evades my filters – some do – what reaction do I have? Well, it isn’t – I am glad Fred thinks I need spanners, car spares, a date, or whatever. As a way of getting my attention, or selling me something – it sucks. My email box works on rules, so a lot go there without me ever seeing them. Unless I mark up those individual newsletters as ones I want to read (there are less than 12 I have marked up that way) they are never read. I happen to use Microsoft 365 and Sanebox so between them all the newsletters you send to me just disappear into folders. I use email filters to manage my inbox more efficiently. I sell my time as well as online contracts, so I need to see emails from my customers and potential customers and spend my time helping them. Before we get into the legalities, you have got to ask yourself is this an effective way to build your list? Like so many other busy business owners, I get about 1000 (yes one thousand) emails a day – mostly from people I don’t know who send me stuff I am not interested in and didn’t ask for. My business associates timelines on LinkedIn are full of complaints about accepting new contacts and promptly being added to an email newsletter list. LinkedIn list scraping – it is effective? But if you are UK based I have no idea why you are doing what you are doing. Is this method of list building working for you? I appreciate that LinkedIn has members all over the world and that different rules apply to how you go about email marketing depending on your location. Are you adding your LinkedIn contacts to your email lists or paying your VA to do it for you? You’ve been to an event or seen a live stream (maybe it was a networking breakfast) where you were told to add your LinkedIn contacts to your email list.

You know that growing your business means staying in contact with your leads.

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