Invasive, spammy marketing

  • No idea if the plugin works. Their business practice of cold calling my clients via their contact forms is reason enough to never use it. Seriously, this sets a horrific precedent when every plugin starts trolling sites to see if their plugin is being used and then emailing the contact emails if they aren’t. Get yourself some ethics and respect peoples’ inboxes.

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  • Plugin Author SearchIQ

    (@searchiq)

    Hi @cwulff, we’re sorry to hear our outreach efforts were not well received. Our team emails prospective publishers individually on a case by case basis when we think our plugin might be of value to their site. And since we are new to the plugin community we are spreading the word about our product. If you would like to message our support team at support@searchIQ.xyz we will remove you from any list. We apologize for the inconvenience.

    Thread Starter cwulff

    (@cwulff)

    You just quite succinctly defined spam there, well done. Even simpler – any unsolicited marketing communication.

    How about this – remove me and anyone you don’t have prior consent from. That would actually solve the problem and make what you’re doing, y’know, not illegal (in many, many countries).

    Plugin Author SearchIQ

    (@searchiq)

    Maybe we are not quite sure the definition of spam. Publishers provide email and contact form on their site that allows anyone to message and communicate. Our team sees their website, finds that we can provide value and writes them a personal email to let them know about our product. It is quite a labor intensive and manual process as you can tell. For a free plugin that merely wants to help out the community without any marketing budget, it is quite an effective way to get the words out. There are many publishers seeing what we do as helpful. We will consult more people for the advice as we also want to do it appropriately.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by SearchIQ.
    Plugin Author SearchIQ

    (@searchiq)

    An article is found that says our practice can be considered as cold email rather than spam and can be legally practice given the rules we followed. I believe we have followed the rules before we sent out email personally. Did you encounter our email that violates this? If so, we can fix it. Below is my reference:

    https://www.leadfuze.com/what-is-cold-email-and-is-it-spam/

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