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Anti-spam: How can we limit spam rates in B2C marketing emails?
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Jan Roos, Full-stack lead gen from clicks to phone calls answered:

If you're CAN-SPAM compliant, showing unsubscribe links, physical address etc, you don't have a policy problem. You have a relevance problem.

Frequency and chasing prospects are not bad, as a matter of fact they can be quite good. But you have to be relevant to what the customer expects to get this to work.

Let me go through a purposefully ridiculous example: let's say I run a pet store that sells dogs, cats and fish.

You're in the market for a puppy. So you click on my facebook ad for the puppy owner manual (or the google ad, or the list drop, or whatever) and enter your email.

You get your puppy email but you also start getting cat and fish emails. 2 out of 3 emails are about litter boxes and aquariums. Worse yet, it's international cat week and I'm hitting you every day with a liquidation sale offer for kittens.

You unsubscribe. And you hit SPAM. Because you never asked for that.

On the other hand, if you happened to get dog emails, you would probably be interested in them and stay on the list. In fact, since you're in the market you would probably take as much as you can get.

Same frequency on the surface, totally different story with relevance.

You don't have to have multiple products to take advantage of this. You always will have multiple customer motivations and often will have separate avatars.

It boils down to marketing strategy and is implemented throughout your customer acquisition process from inbound/outbound lead gen all the way through marketing automation.

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