On 10/22/02 9:43 AM, Helder Correia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said; >Tracy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>If telemarking and spam wasn't profitable, THEY WOULDN'T DO IT! > >I don't know about telemarketing, but I don't think that spam itself >has *ever* been profitable. As far as I've heard, the only people who >make money off of spam are those who sell the mailing lists to spammers.
Sadly I would have to disagree with this one. As I understand it, it's strictly a numbers game. The more people you reach, the more your percentage grows as to the hits verses the misses. The successful marketer knows that if she or he can call 100 people "cold", then at least one of them will buy from you. the other 99 may be uninterested, disgusted or even hostile toward you. But the point to the marketer isn't that several were not interested, the point is that one did buy. Now on to the door to door sales person. For this type of selling the process is virtually the same. It is also a numbers game. This process however takes wear and tear on the feet. Taking it to the next level, if you now install an auto dialer (I received 2 auto dialer sales calls just this morning) and your results increase as your efforts decrease. You saved walking time and even dialing time. Now, take that to the level of auto generated email or spam. If you make 1 sale per 100 emails and you now have the capacity to send out millions of emails every 5 minutes, well, you are going to anger a much greater number of people. And, you are also going to get a lot of sales. Percentage wise, it's a numbers racket. Your a number, I'm a number. I am not a man who doesn't care for unsolicited mail about credit cards, mortgage rates and tuition costs, I am number 1,293,948,928. I am not a man who may be offended at the nature of the suggestions in some emails. Someone sends in money for access to those xxx sites and I am simply inquiry numbers 234,345,456,123,343 and 234,467,234,908. Even though most on this list probably are savvy enough to know the difference between an urban legend and an actual threat to our computers or privacy, etc, many are not that know legible about it. I recently received an email from an old and dear friend of mine from several states away who forwarded that hoax about Microsoft getting ready to do something with AOL and they would send you a check if you filled in the blank and sent it to ten of your friends or some such nonsense. Now this is a good friend who also really needs cash right now. IT was hard to break it to her gently that this particular Santa Clause was a hoax. My point is that Spam must be profitable because there is so much of it. And the basic premise that makes that work is 1) it's a numbers game and 2) Not everyone is smart enough not to bite once in a while. Of course there are legitimate email advertisements as well. I ready my Deal Mac everyday. But that would stop if I wanted it to stop. And because of that, I don't feel like a number to them. Dave Groover PS I just recieved another auto dialer sales call while writing this email. I have GOT to pick up a telezapper. Yeesh. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
