Joined? What did I join now?

Have you done that? First you receive an email welcoming you for joining some person you do not know. Joined? What did you join now?

I’m a list builder and if you are not building your own list, then you should be. That is when you will meet Mr. or Ms. Forgetful.

They start out in the 3% that will sign up for anything and end up in the 97% and growing failure group.

It is easy enough for them to delete without giving it a second thought as to its origins. On to the next join and forget.

These people tend to clog up the data base. Of no use to themselves let alone the programs they join.

There are things we can do to help alleviate the joined syndrome. You will never get rid of these people but can alleviate the pain they cause.

I am seeing this more and more in mails and on sign up forms, “If you are not serious, please don’t join.’

Hard to be clearer but for some reason it entices them to build your Joined and forgot list.

This is my joined answer, a list that builds and empties according to the joined actions.

-Double optin [avoids spam charges]
– Don’t confirm – on the joined list.
– Second confirmation send, no response.
– My favorite – DELETE!

We all make mistakes and join programs that really engage our minds only to change them if we do not take immediate action.

Joined Requires Immediate Action

Can you think of a better way to make sure you don’t become a joined and forgot member on someone’s list?

Habits determine grace periods. For example, you are surfing or clicking for mailer credits when this page just grabs you! You sign up. Step one is done. but the confirmation mail comes in your mail account and you will have to get to it later.

The stage to forget is set. You could make a sticky note to yourself to follow up with it. Again, habit. Begin such a simple new one and it will pay you handsomely over and over again.

Let’s say you find it within 48 hours in your mail account and take care of it right away. Some sponsor and company is going to bless you for being timely. The first step confirmed creates a mutual trust you will both be able to rely on for as long as you are a member in good standing.

Another scenario might have you and your mail accounts surviving on a mutual hate to use habit.

Thus you use the search to find the important mails and delete the rest. If that new joined offer was not on your priority list then it is on its way to cyber space as well.

Joined Bottom Lines

They depend on which side of the join you are on. As an owner, it is important to keep clean data bases of members. There cannot be too much grace time allotted to the joined and forgot list. It is usually, by necessity, first to go.

To protect their status with email delivery owners either do not mail to you period or they allow you three bounces and you are history.

From the user side, you are welcomed but by your actions or lack of them, tolerated then deleted. A lot of traffic exchanges run a ‘wall of shame’ where offending black listed members are kept on public display.

Some owners may be considering a nuisance wall or as strong as a blocked list where once your name or IP address show up, if confirmation is not immediate – and in some coding possibilities, even if it is possible to  give you time, you are blocked.  Joined means accountability to your action. Either complete it or unsubscribe. No hard feelings. Come back when you are ready.

Consider yourself lucky if you are on a list the owner thinks might have some value two or three years down the line. Imagine threatening your delivery rates for keeping one or two hundred on active status and maybe ONE of them comes through? If you were an owner and had to deal with
these leads who joined and forgot to confirm, would you keep them around forever waiting?

It appears those owners willing to do that might find themselves on the next delete route called closing their doors for lack of genuine traffic.

Taking advantage of a company support system can be the best of all worlds. No matter your intent.
no matter your confusion, there is always someone ready to help you  make good decisions that  work for both of you.

Till Next time ..

Fran Klasinski- warriorlady
Mentoring you with common  sense
Marketing with finesse.

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