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Yours Truly,
Anonymous
©2005 by Jeff
Reinbold
How many times today have you gotten an
email message with an
offer in it for a money making deal or some type
of service?
Probably many times! And, how many of those
messages had no
individuals name or contact information, just a
web site URL?
Again, probably many!
I received one a couple of hours ago that had a
pretty good
offer in it, one that I a least was willing to
check out further.
It was a network marketing program that was in
Pre-Launch and
I had not heard of it before, so it appeared to
be pretty new.
The email had no name on it either in the body
or in the "From"
line. All it had was a URL to the web site.
So off I went to the web site. The home page was
well done and
it described a typical network marketing
program. There was no
identification on the home page as to who the
sponsor was nor
was there any specific information about the
company other than
its name. I spotted a link entitled "About Us"
and clicked on
that.
Click Here to Start.
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Michael's General Info |
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greetings
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645 Friends
Member since 2/22/2005 |
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Gender |
Male |
Age |
25 |
Location |
Boynton Beach, Fl, United States |
Interests |
Networking, internet business, surfing, free diving, traveling, music, running, gym, nature, socializing, friends |
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Company |
5PayChecks |
URL |
View 5PayChecks's web site |
Industry |
network marketing, internet marketing, new internet technologies, search engines, health and wellness |
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Nothing there either in respect to the name of the
individuals
running the business, where it was located or how to contact
them. You would think that on a page titled "About Us" you
would
see that type of information. But all this page had on it
was a
description of a network marketing company, in generic
terms.
So I checked out the page "Terms of Membership" and that
page
was also void of any contact information. I did note that
the
company was probably in Texas since part of the agreement
indicated that ......would be governed by the laws of the
State
of Texas.
I checked out every page and they were all void of any
identification of the people running the program. Even the
"Contact Us" page had a input form to send them a message
rather
than listing an actual email address.
BEAT the Cold Winter of 2007 ARIZONA'S NEWEST WONDER
Kartchner Caverns State Park opened in 1999. This stunning limestone cave system is one of the top in the world. Visit Sunny Southwest this cold winter |
Nothing there either in respect to the name
of the individuals
running the business, where it was located or how to
contact
them. You would think that on a page titled "About Us"
you would
see that type of information. But all this page had on
it was a
description of a network marketing company, in generic
terms.
So I checked out the page "Terms of Membership" and that
page
was also void of any contact information. I did note
that the
company was probably in Texas since part of the
agreement
indicated that ......would be governed by the laws of
the State
of Texas.
I checked out every page and they were all void of any
identification of the people running the program. Even
the
"Contact Us" page had a input form to send them a
message rather
than listing an actual email address.
BEAT the Cold Winter of 2007 ARIZONA'S NEWEST WONDER
Kartchner Caverns State Park opened in 1999. This stunning limestone cave system is one of the top in the world. Visit Sunny Southwest this cold winter |
It also bothers me that people try to market
products by email
without identifying themselves (other than their
email address
and sometimes that is false) and expect to be
successful. It
reminds me of when I used to do a lot of snail
mailings and
the response mailings would be very similar. No
return address,
no name and address inside the envelope other
than the
promotion company's address and an ID number on
a circular.
I know a lot of you have gotten those! And in
most cases they
went right in the circular file. Well now you
have a button
that you can use to put them in the circular
file!
The company you should want to deal with is the
one that makes
full disclosure of who they are, has a privacy
statement that
spells out what they are going to do or not do
with your personal
information, and provides accurate information
about their
products and services. You don't want to deal
with someone who
appears to be hiding behind a web page, they may
be here today
but gone tomorrow!
Do you use "Yours truly, Anonymous" as your
signature file?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Joe Reinbold, owner of The Entrepreneur's Home
Business
Link publishes a free weekly email newsletter "Home Income
Quarterly E-dition" which is dedicated to assisting online
marketers. For a free subscription just
mailto:subscribe@homebizlink.com or visit his site at
http://www.homebizlink.com |
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