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05-12-06, 03:43 PM
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#1 | | Active Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
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|  Individual Targetting
How would you feel if the contact form on your site was used to target you (with a product you could use) or the email address you kindly provide was used for the same purpose?
I'm beginning to consider emailing people who are running overly used wordpress themes with my barely used (not used in cases!), paid themes.
If I targetted you with an email like that, how would you feel?
Would you consider the product?
Would it form a poor impression about the entire website? | 
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05-12-06, 04:57 PM
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#2 | | Busy Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Tempe/Tucson/Chandler AZ, USA
Posts: 235
| Re: Individual Targetting
I'm confused as to what you mean. Do you mean going around and e-mailing people using generic wordpress themes and offering your themes to them? | |
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05-12-06, 05:06 PM
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#3 | | Active Member
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Originally Posted by SophMedia I'm confused as to what you mean. Do you mean going around and e-mailing people using generic wordpress themes and offering your themes to them? | Exactly. | |
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05-12-06, 07:00 PM
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#4 | | Busy Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: East Coast, USA
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| Re: Individual Targetting
Hmmmm....there's a very good chance you would be prosecutable as a spammer. Better rethink this one. | |
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05-13-06, 08:41 AM
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#5 | | Active Member
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Originally Posted by GlobalWebDan Hmmmm....there's a very good chance you would be prosecutable as a spammer. Better rethink this one. | How? I would not be using a mailing list, I would be casually surfing and using contact information they provide. | |
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05-13-06, 10:30 AM
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#6 | | Busy Member
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| Re: Individual Targetting
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Originally Posted by GlobalWebDan Hmmmm....there's a very good chance you would be prosecutable as a spammer. Better rethink this one. | Not really, if you approach it right you'll be okay. | |
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05-13-06, 11:45 AM
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#7 | | Busy Member
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| Re: Individual Targetting
No, it will still be considered spam. I have had experience with this. Trust me, you want to make sure that you have a right to contact these people before you do so. One rotten egg will spoil your whole business. | |
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05-13-06, 11:56 AM
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#8 | | Busy Member
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| Re: Individual Targetting
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Originally Posted by GlobalWebDan No, it will still be considered spam. I have had experience with this. Trust me, you want to make sure that you have a right to contact these people before you do so. One rotten egg will spoil your whole business. | Uh, I definitely see how it could be construed as spam, but I don't find fault in it. If he was mass-mailing thousands of wordpress users then it would be a different story. | |
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05-13-06, 12:29 PM
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#9 | | Busy Member
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| Re: Individual Targetting
By law, it does not matter how many messages you send - whether it is one or one million, if someone reports it as spam, you're history.
He can proceed at his own risk, obviously. All I can do is offer advice from my experiences. But if it were me, I would not do it. | |
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05-13-06, 12:38 PM
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#10 | | Busy Member
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Originally Posted by GlobalWebDan By law, it does not matter how many messages you send - whether it is one or one million, if someone reports it as spam, you're history.
He can proceed at his own risk, obviously. All I can do is offer advice from my experiences. But if it were me, I would not do it. | Laws vary upon where you are at obviously. If we're referring to can-spam, everyone knows it is a joke.
Keep in mind that I'm not condoning spam though. | |
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