Have you tried sample swapping??

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[Audrey]

I am going to personally caution anyone considering joining this group. It's a mailing list you can NOT get off of.

[Audrey]

I very very seldom caution folks. In fact this is only the 2nd time I've done so on this board.

I NEVER asked to be on the mailing list. My email address was harvested from a message board.

I began receiving emails DAILY, all copy and pasted advertisements for this service.

I asked to be removed. I was not. I continued to get DAILY emails.

Have I ever made a mistake? You bet I have. However I have NEVER harvested names off message boards.

I certainly wish you well in your venture, mom packs have been quite successful, however I will never support the way you market.

[laurieann]

Wow. I'm sorry that you had such a negative experience from sample-swap. I have had just the opposite. I did, get an unsolicited email, but I get those all the time. It doesn't really bother me and I guess I just feel it's part of life when you post your information (business or personal) on the net. I have been in contact with the owner of sample-swap and she was nothing but professional and courteous to me. I understand that she is a new business starting out, maybe there were some kinks in the emailing system that haven't been worked out yet? I see that you have two home businesses listed, could that be why you got more than one email? I say cut her some slack. We all had to start out somewhere.

Laurie
Independent Avon Representative
emmybeans@excite.com

[Audrey]

Laurie,

Welcome to the forum. The original ad was actually removed. I hope you'll join us in other conversations here on the board.

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[Ravish30]

Hi Laurie,

I hope you stop by the introduction thread and introduce yourself to the group and I hope we see you participating in other topics of discussion here.

Denise, I suggest if you are going to do email marketing that you get a system in place so that it doesn't happen again as people are very firm about receiving unsolicitated emails...hence the new SPAM laws regarding it. Someone could indeed report you for that, so you need to not do it. Its okay to run around promoting what you are offering but you need to let people come to you for additional information or to sign up. You just can't run around harvesting emails from groups, websites, forums etc and sending out your information to them.

Shelly

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[Ravish30]

My suggestion to you is to quit the pity poor me party.

Do what all of us do....advertise! You can go around to forums and post AD's offering your service in the appropiate AD FORUMS....let folks come to you if they are interested.

[Ravish30]

http://www.ftc.gov/spam/

Do you receive lots of junk email messages from people you don't know? It's no surprise if you do. As more people use email, marketers are increasingly using email messages to pitch their products and services. Some consumers find unsolicited commercial email - also known as "spam" - annoying and time consuming; others have lost money to bogus offers that arrived in their email in-box.

[Ravish30]

Now..Just because your service offer is NOT bogus...doesn't mean its not considered spam. It is considered spam because you are stealing folks email addresses and emailing them an OFFER to participate in YOUR service.

I don't think that is freaking hard to understand!

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[Ravish30]

Gotta love sugar!