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Yes definitely. In general as long as you're not mass emailing 1000s of potential prospects, you target specific people that you think would be interested, you

Yes definitely. In general as long as you're not mass emailing 1000s of potential prospects, you target specific people that you think would be interested, you tailor each email individually to them, and you're respectful and up-front about what you're doing things work out fine.

bitofnews 13y ago
Also be sure to abide by CAM SPAM Act. Must include links to unsubscribe.
- AznHisoka 13y ago
  heh... But links to unsubscribe makes no sense when you're not sending a regular newsletter. You're just emailing them once. Plus it removes the sense of any personalization.. "Click here to unsubscribe? But I thought you were sending me a personal email!"
  - bitofnews 13y ago
    It's not so much that it "makes sense", but that you need it to comply with CAM SPAM. Any unsolicited mail must have an unsubscribe link, even if you just email them once.
    - joemoon 13y ago
      Just an FYI, it's the "CAN SPAM" act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 I thought it was a typo the first time you typed it, but I thought you should know when I saw it a second time.
    - ehsanu1 13y ago
      There is no subscription. What are you unsubscribing from? Or just consider all such emails to be unsubscribed automatically after this one email, making a link pointless. The reason for this is really for mass emails. It really should not apply when you send a few hand-written emails to a few people.
alecsmart1 13y ago
Suppose I customize and email 1000s of potential clients. Is that considered as spam? Would you recommend any nice template/examples to use? Should I send these emails from a generic email box or from my personal email? If I include an "unsubscribe" option, won't the receiver think "hey, I never subscribed to this, let me mark it as spam". On a side note, I used to contact potential clients years ago and then GoDaddy marked my domain as spam and made me cough up $199. The email wasn't even sent from the same domain (google godaddy spam scam). I moved off to NetworkSolutions. Anyone sending cold emails, please beware of this.
- joshdance 13y ago
  You can't customize 1000s of emails. Sure you can mail merge in their name, but putting their name in the first line is not customizing. Customizing would be looking up information about their company, researching their competitors, talking to people who know them, figuring out what kind of food they like, and then crafting an email to them. That is not spam. That is hustle and marketing.
alecsmart1 13y ago
Also, any suggestions on which host to use to send these emails?

bitofnews 13y ago

Also be sure to abide by CAM SPAM Act. Must include links to unsubscribe.

AznHisoka 13y ago
heh... But links to unsubscribe makes no sense when you're not sending a regular newsletter. You're just emailing them once. Plus it removes the sense of any personalization.. "Click here to unsubscribe? But I thought you were sending me a personal email!"
- bitofnews 13y ago
  It's not so much that it "makes sense", but that you need it to comply with CAM SPAM. Any unsolicited mail must have an unsubscribe link, even if you just email them once.
  - joemoon 13y ago
    Just an FYI, it's the "CAN SPAM" act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 I thought it was a typo the first time you typed it, but I thought you should know when I saw it a second time.
  - ehsanu1 13y ago
    There is no subscription. What are you unsubscribing from? Or just consider all such emails to be unsubscribed automatically after this one email, making a link pointless. The reason for this is really for mass emails. It really should not apply when you send a few hand-written emails to a few people.

alecsmart1 13y ago

Suppose I customize and email 1000s of potential clients. Is that considered as spam? Would you recommend any nice template/examples to use? Should I send these emails from a generic email box or from my personal email? If I include an "unsubscribe" option, won't the receiver think "hey, I never subscribed to this, let me mark it as spam". On a side note, I used to contact potential clients years ago and then GoDaddy marked my domain as spam and made me cough up $199. The email wasn't even sent from the same domain (google godaddy spam scam). I moved off to NetworkSolutions. Anyone sending cold emails, please beware of this.

joshdance 13y ago
You can't customize 1000s of emails. Sure you can mail merge in their name, but putting their name in the first line is not customizing. Customizing would be looking up information about their company, researching their competitors, talking to people who know them, figuring out what kind of food they like, and then crafting an email to them. That is not spam. That is hustle and marketing.

alecsmart1 13y ago

Also, any suggestions on which host to use to send these emails?