Learn More About Building An Email Business List Today
Since the only legal way to send commercial emails is through permission-based processes, it becomes important to have clarity with the situation regarding an email business list. No doubt you have seen very many optin boxes offering their various freebie in exchange for some contact information. After the laws passed outline what is allowable from a legal standpoint, many IM marketers just defaulted to the safest option. However, many have tested all that is possible and found that nobody likes jumping through a lot of hoops just to get on a list. As always, do your due diligence and verify all you read and conduct your own testing.
Starting right from the top, anytime a person subscribes to a list they are also opting-in to that list. Yes, this is the foundation of permission-based email marketing and only applies to commercial intent. All else in the list marketing process flows from the moment the reader elects to voluntarily opt-in to your list. From that point on, you are good to go until the person unsubscribes, etc, but we are getting ahead of ourselves. We alluded to different scenarios and processes involving opting-in, and you need to know about them plus a few more important points.
An email whitelist can be very important to you for those ISPs who are overly aggressive in their war on spam. What happens is some ISPs will filter out your emails if they contain enough spam filter trigger words. So, to prevent that you will always want to encourage your subscribers to whitelist your email address.
One thing many email marketers do is send fresh optins to a page that explains how to whitelist in the most common email providers and ISPs. You cannot control whether or not a person will do that, so you just try to make it as easy as possible for them.
The single opt-in lacks the confirmation step that the double opt-in imposes on the subscriber. Obviously, there is no record of confirmation the person actually subscribed with the single opt-in. However, this method is still very popular with marketers because it increases the rate of subscriptions. Yes, people can be fickle at times by signing up to be on your list but never clicking the confirmation link they receive – if you use the double opt-in. With a single opt-in, the person gives you their contact information, and then they are merely sent an email stating they have subscribed.
If you are new to email marketing and the whole idea of an email business list, we recommend you avoid getting paranoid about the false accusation of spamming that can occur with a subscriber. We have no statistics or any kind of data on how prevalent that is in the industry. But it is something we hear about very infrequently, and we feel it is not worth worrying about. Nevertheless, you should go with which ever option makes you feel most comfortable.