Michael,
My thought is that explanation is the reason why so many marketing emails get marked as spam and never get looked at.  Or worse, people will opt out from receiving emails from the institution if they are inundated with emails that have little or no value for them.  I suggest that your marketing department rethink that 'standard' practice and think about what added value the recipient receives from each contact.  Can they answer the questions "What would they like to find in their mail reader?"  "What would motivate them to spend time giving the content serious consideration?"  and knowing what they know about their target audience "What would motivate them to act?"  I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be repetition or redundancy.
Good luck with your fund raising event.
Kind regards,
Liz

Morrill Mtn Consulting
So Strafford, VT 05070


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The justification is that it is a key fundraising effort for our organization and sending multiple email invitations is standard practice in marketing departments.

 


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I would say that a second round is excessive unless the new mailing contains valuable new info (or perhaps an alluring discount offer).  What is the marketing department’s rationale for another mailing?

 

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Melissa C. Winans, Senior LAN Administrator

Texas Natural Science Center , University of Texas at Austin

10100 Burnet Rd, Bldg 122, Austin , Texas , 78758-4445

Phone: 512-232-4263, Fax: 512-471-6090

http://www.texasnaturalsciencecenter.org/

 

From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Elkink
Sent: Thursday, 22 October, 2009 6:58 PM
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Hi All,

 

I’m wondering what sorts of policies and procedures your institution may have surrounding the use of email as a marketing tool.  We are currently struggling with how to best promote important events at our institution while preventing our customers from feeling like they’re being spammed. 

 

The specific situation is that our marketing department wishes to send out a second round of email invitations to a list that has already received one invitation and has had the event mentioned in three other email newsletters.  According to your policies is this, or isn’t this, considered spam?

 

Thanks for your time.

 

Mike

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