How many emails did you all get from the Pipeline Profits hype? Seems as if every cheeseball guru I subscribe to tried to get a piece of this action. The offers came fast and furious in the waning hours of this crap. Some guys were offering some of their top-flight software as an enticement to jump aboard. Others were offering limited ebooks and programs. It was almost pathetic how desperate these guys were to get a piece of this action.
Check out these email headers from a couple of my favorite gurus. Andy and Brad:
“Brad Fallon”
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:02:24 -0500
Subject: Bob, Warning: they are pulling it down NOW
“Brad Fallon”
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:35:54 -0500
Subject: Bob - they BLEW IT UP!
“Brad Fallon”
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:06:08 -0500
Subject: Bob, $14,500,000.00 in three days!
“Andy Jenkins”
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:14:39 UT
Subject: Here’s $16,491.00 for you.
Explain to me why I should be impressed that the ordering system was not sufficiently designed to handle the transaction load. And why the hell are you sending me an email to tell me that? Why am I getting emails an hour and a half apart for this? (And how the hell did I get on the convertlink.com list anyway?) And if that’s not bad enough, why am I getting emails 12 minutes apart? From the same email address? With a different senders name? I received more than these but they already died a deletion death.
Boys you are spamming me. Now, I have filters set up that dump “Fallon” and “Jenkins” into the trash so I had to go dig this crap out. But c’mon. Enough with the emails. Marketing is such crap. Typical sales tactics. Just keep beating the customer over the head long enough they’ll buy. And of course the old 1/3/100 rule applies magically to email marketing. Send out a hundred emails, 3 might open it and 1 might actually buy.
That sound you just heard was a big ol’ sigh.
5 responses so far ↓
Diane // Jan 19, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Yeah, I got hit with all the offers for Pipeline Profits as well. The e-mail spam does seem to be coming from the Big Name Gurus. I got one from Willie Crawford with the same “$14,500,000.00 in three days? headline as well. I guess they didn’t even have the time to come up with their own copy!
Bryan // Jan 20, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I’m waiting for the blog posts here about ‘X’ and his Adwords Black Book DVD’s.
Anything?
Bryan
Splork // Jan 20, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Hey Bryan. Yea I’ve been getting those too. But I haven’t bothered reading them to be honest. I guess I’m a little off my game this week. Funny, there is ssoooo much crap being pimped in this new year, we can hardly keep up.
Guru Hit Squad // Jan 22, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I like the whole one they did about how his phone number was found by a web search and so he just had to go ahead and let somebody in early since they called him at home.
You mean to tell me somebody making hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly is so stupid as to have his home phone on his registration, not to mention that he answered it, hell, if I see an unfamiliar number on caller ID that goes straight to voicemail.
And then the whole bogus SERVER BLEW UP thing, wonder if you could do an FTC complaint on fake copy like that.
Now we will see the followup where either some people’s credit cards didn’t go thru or some were overeager and hit the button twice, so therefore we were able to release just a FEW more copies and eke out that many more bucks from you unsuspecting fools, oops I mean valued customers.
Give me a break.
Marc // Jan 22, 2007 at 2:14 pm
I got identical emails with the same headline and body content from two different people. It’s either the same person trying to double spam me without it looking like they’re all coming from him or maybe it’s a copy cat spammer who’s unable to write his own spam. Nothing stinks more than used, recycled spam. I think I’m going to cut and paste all my old spam emails together into adobe acrobat and sell it on ebay. I might make some money if I give it the right title. Of course the title would have to be plagiarized off a spam headline. Getting off topic…sorry.
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