Internet Marketing Distraction

It seems the more and more you get into Internet marketing – the more emails you get. They breed and infiltrate your life to the point of complete Internet marketing distraction. They are a virus and, often, a pest. Yet they don’t go away. They keep coming at you sucking up hours of previously productive time.

Just as you think you need to unsubscribe one useful one appears and you think ‘umm, maybe it would be useful to leave that one!”. Before you know it there are 5,000 emails sitting there, festering away. Maybe 10,000, or 20,000.

The point I am trying to make here is that ‘time is precious’ and time wasted reading and flicking through emails is money lost in my book. I have no problem with subscribing to free reports or eBooks or products, whatever.

There is some really good stuff out there and often it is not obvious where the little gems are. Some of the best eBooks and reports I’ve picked up over the years are from small time marketers – people that are not widely known but have original ideas and are able to put them down on paper.

I encourage you to keep subscribing and searching. I also try to give everyone a fair go – to look at their emails to see what they have to offer. I like to know what their opinions are and if they have original content and ideas.

BUT – and this is a big BUT – if they start bombarding me every day and use cheap email opening tricks, or send me copy and paste swipe content, I am out of there in a flash.

What do I mean by ‘cheap email opening tricks’? I mean tacky subject lines like:

“THE REAL SECRET…”

“Your Download Link…”

“Do Not Buy…”

Or the absolute worst:

“Your Payment Notification”

Am I being ultra sensitive here? Am I just forgetting that people on these lists do react to these subject headlines and open these emails? Maybe. But subjects such as “Your Download Link” and “Your Payment Notification” are attempts to mislead you since they invariably come from people that you have not requested a download from and you have not been paid anything.

People who copy payment notification subject headlines are wasting your time and misleading you to opening their emails.

Time is a valuable commodity and if the sender resorts to tricks to get me to open I can safely assume they have nothing worthwhile for me – unsubscribe! Narrow your field of email senders to those you trust and offer value.

Sure, not every email is the worlds most interesting from them – but over time you need to make sure your time is used wisely. Avoid the common Internet marketers email disease and keep your inbox trim and healthy! Avoid Internet Marketing Distraction.

ACTION STEP: Delete and Unsubscribe From Unwanted Emails That Clutter Your Inbox

Tell me – what distracts you from ‘getting on with business’?