My thought on aggression is that you do what makes you comfortable in your own life. For instance, I’m one who hates being aggressively marketed to, and I push back hard. Therefore, I won’t do it to anyone else. Some people like that, though, so those people would be your market. But when one reviews studies, hard marketing only converts at best 2% of the time; that’s a lot of work for very little return if you don’t have a big ticket product to hawk that earns a lot of money per purchase.

I am still on the fence on the whole email list thing, but if it works to market your products (whether free or not), then I am not against trying it.

I recently setup am email just to go out and “opt-in” to a bunch of these lists so I can research how others are utilizing it.

One more point/question, what is wrong with being aggressive to sell your products? Would you open a brick and mortar store without and advertising/marketing strategy? As long as you are doing it in an honest way and can sleep at night, I don’t see anything wrong with it.
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As for the rest, I like to think that I’m always fair, even if I might have reason not to be. As a manager, one needs to learn how to separate work stuff from personal stuff. I think David’s heart was in the right place even if his words might not have come across as he’d hoped they would. He’s very passionate about the need for people who want to make money online to have a list, and I’m not passionate about the subject either way because I know I’m not going to do it unless I have something specific I want to share with people, and I’m certainly not hooking it up to an autoresponder to bombard people weekly with it without giving some real substance they wouldn’t get anywhere else.

There are many ways to blog, and no one way is right, they are different and unique and totally the bloggers business. And, David, who proclaims himself to be an expert should really understand this.

There is a distinctive difference between wanting to be famous in a flagship as opposed to other types of blogging, again no one model is best or right, it’s an individual choice and the bloggers business, and that is why people love blogging, because it is so personal.

And, after perusing David’s blog I noticed on his about page that he states his income from the past several years and even breaks it down to daily income, I for one would not post this info, but again, its his business.

The statement “desperate attempt to get a click” is amusing, as I personally think those lists, which, save for a very few exceptions, often yield tons of desperate email garbage full of the latest and greatest in IM and MMO, which to me is much more direct desperation than some indirect ads that a user has the choice to click on or not.

Mitch,
You are much more mature than I would be in giving him a plug for his book. Keep on doing your thing!!

Shoot Mitch, I did not realize you had Comment Luv, I will add you to my list right now.
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That’ll teach them that they need to keep reading our blogs, since we tell them often what they might be in for.

Why do you think they don’t have a disclosure that says, By subscribing who are opening up Pandora’s box giving me the right to flood your email inbox with a whole lot oh junk.
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You know, I’m someone who doesn’t like being contacted automatically for no reason. For instance, if I leave a comment on someone’s blog, I hope they respond, but if they don’t most of the time that’s okay. But getting an automated response just saying “thanks for your comment” adds another email that I have to delete that didn’t offer me anything valuable, if you know what I mean. If I subscribe to something that’s different because I like knowing my subscription was received, but in general, I don’t want to be bothered. And I’ll admit that if something bothers me, then I try never to do it to someone else.

Now, if I had a free product to offer to someone, then it might be a different story; I’m not sure, though, since I only offer my free product to people who subscribe to my newsletters.