The Problem With Email Signup
In a word, it's spam and what it can do to you and your marketing efforts.
How Does It Affect Me?
Spammers do two things that could give you serious problems when it comes to signing up for a serial autoresponder:
- They send email to you using email addresses from your own Address Book, and not their real address.
- They send junk mail to people using email addresses from other Address Books they have pirated.
When you receive email from a familiar email address, like one in your own Address Book, it automatically gets through any email filtering you might have, and makes it more likely that you'll download any attachments in that email. This, of course, can result in either your own hard drive being erased, or your computer turned into a slave and begin cranking out thousands of spam mails WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ON IT.
Have you ever received a demand from someone that you immediately stop sending them email messages that you aren't sending? That's a spammer at work. Imagine if the spammer sent out 5,000 email messages with the email address of your autoresponder as the sender, and 5,000 people wrote back to tell you to stop. You would now subscribe those poor folks to a series of messages they didn't want and you'd be tagged as a spammer forever.
An email autoresponder subscribing method relies on a dumb robot. If it gets email, it signs up whoever sent it to the associated serial autoresponder. Nothing fancy there, just something truly deadly if a spammer gets that address.
If The Email Address Is Visible, It's Spammer Bait
This is why so many Web sites today no longer have email links that someone clicks to send them email. Spammers send robots around the Internet that read Web pages looking for email addresses that can be hijacked. The robots are not intelligent and have no idea what the email address is used for, and, frankly, they could care less. They just need valid email addresses to spam with.
If an autoresponder subscription address is hijacked, some poor striving business is in for a really rough time.
We Would Not Escape Either
If one of our customers that sends email is accused of spamming, we can also be held responsible by our hosting company and all of our mail servers could be shut down. That's not good for our business at all.
So, we all have something to gain by not letting spammers ruin your business. We give you a simple and easy way to place some HTML code on your Web pages that will sign people up for any of your video autoresponders, with no way for a spammer to utilize that to do harm.
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