https://dy-online.com/email-friends/ Trusted Art Business Coaching and Consulting Sun, 01 May 2022 03:14:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://dy-online.com/email-friends/#comment-10348 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:05:37 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/?p=6018#comment-10348 When I used to send postcard in envelope invitations to a solo show I was having at a gallery, those people had not previously signed up to receive those invitations…I feel the same way about inviting people by email…It is a very rare thing if you do receive an invitation from me by email, & that is the only thing you are going to get in a 2 year time frame…I don’t do a newsletter-I am probably too much of a perfectionist to get that done within reasonable time & energy parameters (I did one years ago & it left me bereft of creativity to get anything else done)…Is it really such a horrible thing for someone to get a one time invitation to one of my shows? Without signing up to receive that?

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]]> https://dy-online.com/email-friends/#comment-10344 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:16:53 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/?p=6018#comment-10344 […] say you or your webmaster created an opt-in box for your website or blog so people may subscribe to your newsletter. You may take the coding for that opt-in box and add it to your Fan Page through the installation […]

]]> https://dy-online.com/email-friends/#comment-10343 Wed, 12 May 2010 10:02:54 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/?p=6018#comment-10343 thanks. that was very helpful.

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]]> https://dy-online.com/email-friends/#comment-10341 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:33:02 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/?p=6018#comment-10341 Cindy,
i agree, like you; I try to make my newsletter informative, educational and fun as well, with no pushing of sales. I don’t believe sales are the purpose of a newsletter (although, it IS about exposure and information, which could eventually end up in a sale, of course.)
Jennifer,
About the Opt In/Opt Out question:
I wasn’t sure about the Opt In/Opt Out rules so I looked it up. I found a link to a site which spells it all out for us.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/ecommerce/bus61.shtm

]]> https://dy-online.com/email-friends/#comment-10340 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:00:53 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/?p=6018#comment-10340 Hello
I have received email newsletters from a couple of friends that I didn’t sign up for, but never thought it was a big deal. I just figured – I’m their friend this is what we do. I breeze through the newsletter and delete. At the same time – I only get a couple of these unrequested newsletters so it’s not a huge time suck.
When I send my first couple of newsletters out – I am going to ask people to “Opt Out” instead of “Opt In”. I hope it won’t offend people.
thanks!

]]> https://dy-online.com/email-friends/#comment-10339 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:49:08 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/?p=6018#comment-10339 Friends were the basis of my original newsletter list (4x a year) and in the message header i make it clear it is a newsletter…they can hit delete w/o opening it if they so choose, or de-subscribe thru the service (which I mention at the opening of any notice). I am lucky to have supportive friends and since I try to make the newsletter informative, educational and fun I think the majority of them like receiving it…no push for sales on it. Adding folks comes thru the “subscribe here” button or by talking to people who find out I paint, then i mention the newsletter and/or website if they want more info. I do not want to be on anybody’s list who hits my mailbox once a week and have deleted many a blog for this reason. I try to imagine myself on the receiving end and respect their inboxes as i would want mine respected. If I got inundated by a “friend” who’s product i did not want I would email them with a polite “decline” but an offer to share the site with someone else more in their niche.

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