I spammed potential end users and it felt terrible

[saturn60]

I always looked at spammers as the people whos parents should have used birth control, and here I was the other day sending out unsolicited emails for the first time, pitching my domains to end users.

I knew it felt dirty, but I pushed myself to do it because of the potential payday, but also because I've read these forums long enough to convince myself for just a few hours that sending out those emails wasn't such a bad thing to do.

My advice to domainers is, take the high road, don't send out unsolicited emails, there are other ways to market your domains. I'm sure many on this forum will disagree with me and that's fine, it's completely legal and it also places you in a segment of our society known as human trash.

 

[gilescoley]

places you in a segment of our society known as human trash.

Welcome

 

[saturn60]

No sir, I made a full confession here.

 

[gilescoley]

I know, thats why I said welcome....dont feel too bad about it, we are offering them a domain that they might want for their business, as long as you email them once and don't keep spamming them, then thats fine

 

[xull]

Everybody have their first time :P

 

[NamePrime]

I think there's a thin red line between spamming and marketing (in this case). The key is to know your limit, when and to whom to send. I have some end-users who were very happy I contacted them and ended up buying the domain. They just didn't know that they can still acquire the domain after it was registered, so they settled for lesser tlds and moved on.

 

[Fliporium]

I always looked at spammers as the people whos parents should have used birth control, and here I was the other day sending out unsolicited emails for the first time, pitching my domains to end users.

I knew it felt dirty, but I pushed myself to do it because of the potential payday, but also because I've read these forums long enough to convince myself for just a few hours that sending out those emails wasn't such a bad thing to do.

My advice to domainers is, take the high road, don't send out unsolicited emails, there are other ways to market your domains. I'm sure many on this forum will disagree with me and that's fine, it's completely legal and it also places you in a segment of our society known as human trash.

How many of these unsolicited emails did you send anyway? My definition of a real dirtbag spammer is the one that builds huge dedicated servers and machines that are specially designed and programmed for only one thing, blast millions of emails a minute to bought lists of millions of scraped email addresses.

Those are spammers. If you sent out a few dozen (I'm assuming) or so emails so what? It's ok to put yourself out there a little bit and try to chat up business.

 

[JyotiG]

Even I felt the same way the first time I sent out emails to potential end users who might be interested in the domains that I had but I always made it a point to send the email only once and not spam them. If I do not receive a reply then I just leave it and do not bug them by sending the same email over and over again.
I guess it's ok till the time you don't get on their nerves and just send an email once.

 

[KDN]

There's nothing wrong in sending e-mails to potential end users. The keyword is "potential".

 

[baldonius]

Can be a useful strategy for lower-end domains, but for higher-end domains you want the end-user to be contacting you. That puts you in a stronger negotiating position. The one who can walk away is the one with the most power.

 

[Nazz]

There is a difference.

You are offering something of interest to that individual, where as a "spammer" is offering cialis viagra pills and penis extensions.

 

[Constantin S]

There is a difference.

You are offering something of interest to that individual, where as a "spammer" is offering cialis viagra pills and penis extensions.

Don't forget about cheap web design/developing sold overpriced.

 

[Domainzy]

Dictionary definition Spam: irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients.

I think the word 'spam' has different meaning to each generation:
My grandpa: Spam was just meat in a can
My dad: Spam is Unwanted Emails
My little bro: Spam is Sharing

I don't know why the younger generation persist on trying to replace the word 'sharing' with the word 'spam'. I had someone last week ask me to 'spam' my social media, when he really just meant spread the word.

 

[HoloNames]

I try to send offers only to companies/people who are from that nieche. I never do mailing campaigns when offering domain names.

 

[Electric-Shadow]

There are people on here who send hundreds of E-Mails, to me that's spam. If you can find that many 'potential' end users (unless you have a true killer domain) you're doing something wrong and you need to consider narrowing down your list.

As long as the E-Mails are personalized and that the content is tailored to each individual then there's absolutely nothing wrong with with it.

 

[NameFit]

I think if you send too many emails (I do not know what that number/frequency is), the recipient's email providers may mark your emails as 'spam' 'junk' and forward them to Spam/Junk folders. So you run into that risk. Even if you your own domain and you send the emails from that, they may blacklist the whole domain.

How the systems detect spam is 'sending same content to multiple people at the same time or in short duration'. To minimize this, I would recommend

- Changing the content/subject line, you can have 2/3 templates with varying content.
- Try to address the person by name if you can find out.
- Time out your emails
- Be polite and say something like this is one time email
- Use multiple emails to send out the emails with.
- Send 'actionable', 'open' emails, e.g. This is the name which I thought would be good for your business, but I have other names as well that I can provide. Make person think.
- Do not make it too long (may be 5 sentences at max - who has time to read unsolicited emails)

The email recipients have option to mark the email as 'spam/junk' and you do not want that. As a domainer, you definitely do not want your emails going to Spam/Junk email. Imagine, somebody inquires you about a name and your reply went to spam/junk - and obviously follow up emails will go to the same place.

Lastly, as domainer - always read through your Spam/Junk folder - I have found some emails there that were serious leads.

 

[JayJay]

Lastly, as domainer - always read through your Spam/Junk folder - I have found some emails there that were serious leads.

I'll second that, I had a $1k sale last summer of a hand reg from an inquiry sitting in my spam folder for a few days.

 

[hookbox]

I always looked at spammers as the people whos parents should have used birth control, and here I was the other day sending out unsolicited emails for the first time, pitching my domains to end users.

I knew it felt dirty, but I pushed myself to do it because of the potential payday, but also because I've read these forums long enough to convince myself for just a few hours that sending out those emails wasn't such a bad thing to do.

My advice to domainers is, take the high road, don't send out unsolicited emails, there are other ways to market your domains. I'm sure many on this forum will disagree with me and that's fine, it's completely legal and it also places you in a segment of our society known as human trash.

You can be a slut or a whore. They both do the same thing but only one gets paid.

 

[LaunchUp.com]

I don't practice emailing end-users, but I don't consider sending an email to a potential end-user as spamming. Spamming is more when it's repeated to the same person and also if we send out emails in mass to people who the domain is not even related to. Furthermore the email is not personalized. Otherwise there is nothing wrong with sending an email to someone who legitimately can use the name.

I personalized an email once to an end-user and they responded surprisingly happy...

 

[biggie]

I knew it felt dirty, but I pushed myself to do it

tell me young jedi.... why did you give in, to the dark side of the force?

because of the potential payday, but also because I've read these forums long enough to convince myself for just a few hours that sending out those emails wasn't such a bad thing to do.

ahh, ability to convince one's self, comes from reading what you want to believe.

believe it not, before reading and seek faults to understand truth.

Good Luck!



imo.....