What does Lady Gaga think about buying email list?
So, I ran into Lady Gaga the other day….
Red Pill Email Supports EMAPP
Red Pill Email is pleased to announce its support of EMAPP, Email Marketers Association for Puppy Protection.
Gosh darn it, Red Pill Email just plain cares about puppies more than people that buy email lists.
If you care about cute cuddly little puppies, you won’t buy email lists.
Buying lists is bad for your company, your career, and for puppies.
Bubble-headed bimbos like Regina know that list buying is bad. She cares about puppies.
Ayn Rand, Sun Tzu, and Atticus Finch all know that list buying is bad. They care about puppies, too.
Don’t mess with the puppies or you could find yourself facing a pack of big dogs.
Passing the True Beauty Email Test
I can’t believe that this is the third post in a row about how purchasing email lists is a bad thing. Yes, that’s right, the third. It’s not like I’m working off of some editorial calendar or anything; it’s just that for some reason it’s been topical for the last month. And quite frankly, I don’t understand – with all that’s been written about it for years – why so many people are, as Al Iverson puts it, “permission challenged”.
Anyway, not the last “don’t buy email lists” post, but the one before it, The True Beauty Email Test, challenged email marketers to not sit idly by when the subject of buying email list comes up, but to step up and call it out for the bad (and dangerous) practice that it is. And as if on queue, iMediaConnection earlier this week gave the opportunity to do so…. I’d love to link you to the live post, but for some strange reason it was taken down. Not to worry though, thanks to modern science I was able to keep a copy…. I’m so bad….
Email, Ayn Rand, Sun Tzu, & Atticus Finch
A couple of weeks ago I was clowning around with Ryan Phelan, Andrew Kordek, Morgan Stewart, and some others making fun of the “b-word” to the tune of popular songs. Andrew is busting out the rap; Ryan at a smokey piano bar; it being a Friday, I was in more of a Nina Simone mood. Appreciating the dichotomy Morgan soon presented me the coveted “Dennis Miller Award for Overly-Intellectual Cultural References”.
In my acceptance speech I offered a favorite quote from Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, “If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks.”
So how the hell does this tie email to Ayn Rand and Sun Tzu? I’m getting there….
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