Real Businesses Send Spam Too
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Real Businesses Send Spam Too!
Overview
While most spam is sent by individual spammers and large bulk mailers promoting dubious products and services, legitimate businesses can inadvertently fall into the spam category by making certain mistakes. These include legal non-compliance, violating trust, and failing to provide value.
Introduction
Unsolicited Commercial Email, commonly known as spam, has become a widespread issue, even surpassing computer viruses as the main concern for IT departments. The sheer volume of unwanted emails is overwhelming inboxes, drowning out genuine communication.
Legal Non-Compliance
In 2003, complying with spam laws was a challenge due to the variety of state-specific regulations. The introduction of the Federal CAN-SPAM Act has simplified these rules, making adherence more straightforward. However, businesses can still face legal trouble in three main areas:
1. Omitting a Valid Physical Address: Emails must include a genuine physical address.
2. Lack of a Functional Opt-Out Mechanism: An internet-based opt-out option must remain active for at least 30 days after the email is sent.
3. Failure to Indicate Advertising Clearly: Emails should clearly indicate they are advertisements, though how to achieve this is open to interpretation.
Unintentional legal pitfalls include:
- Using defective email lists containing individuals who have opted out.
- Employing misleading subject lines.
- Affiliates or partners sending spam without your knowledge.
The federal law centralizes the rules, offering businesses a singular reference point for compliance.
Violating Trust
Trust is a crucial hurdle in online interactions. People are wary of sharing their email addresses due to fears of misuse. When companies share or mishandle email lists, whether internally across departments or externally with partners, they risk breaching the permission given by subscribers.
Companies often possess databases with emails of potential customers or clients. Converting these into formal subscriber lists requires careful consideration to ensure permission has truly been granted.
Lack of Value
Every email sent to subscribers is scrutinized. Recipients become frustrated with irrelevant content, self-serving messages, ineffective unsubscribe options, hard-sell tactics, or poorly formatted emails.
In today's environment, even permission-based emails are subject to personal spam filters. Recipients decide: "Email marketing is email I like; spam is email I don’t."
Solutions
To protect their brand, businesses must:
- Audit their email lists.
- Evaluate content for relevance and value.
- Ensure compliance with best practices and legal requirements.
By focusing on these elements, businesses can run successful email marketing campaigns that respect their audience and uphold their reputation.
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