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Does being added to newsletter lists influence your decision to enter contests?
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Yes. I did enter a big contest last year knowing this would happen and dreaded it. Why because so many have that dreaded welcome sequence. Last year I decided as an experiment to see what would happen. This year if I do enter a contest with this condition if I am not interested in the genre the author writes I will auto unsubscribe. If there is the welcome sequence I will probably unsubscribe also. So far this year I have decided not to enter a couple of contests cos I just can’t handle the newsletters. Ironically from the Christmas in July contest I got yet another newsletter from an author 6 months after the contest.
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It can if there are a lot of authors newsletter sign-ups. If it is something I’m really interested in, then I will, no matter what. However, if I like it , but don’t always read them, I probably wouldn’t so I don’t get too much more overwhelmed with newsletters.
I understand. I created a new folder for last years giveaway but it gets tiring. I now will only sign up if its something I really want to win.
Yes, it turns me off if there are multiple authors. If it’s one or two, that’s fine, because I’m choosy who I sign up for. But then I’m really picky which newsletters I’m on anyway. Otherwise, I’d never read them all.
I fully agree. I found with the ones last year with the sequence you get a little at a time and this year if I join they will have lost me at the first one.
Those I kept were the ones with either a welcome to my newsletter this is who I am, this is what to expect, this is how often I send. That way I knew what I would be getting and if I was interested. For good measure some wrote if you want to unsubscribe as I know my newsletter isn’t for everyone (or words to that effect) I understand and feel free to unsub at the bottom. A couple of those I stayed just because they were understanding. but of the 70+ I probably stayed on 5 or 6 that i wasn’t already a member off.
Ouch, 70? That would definitely turn me off
If signing up for newsletters is a requirement to enter a competition, then I won’t enter.
There are only a couple of author’s who I have subscribed to newsletters, and neither of those were associated with a competition, purely because I wanted to know when they were putting out new books.
I understand.
It didn’t use to matter until I realized I was spending all my time reading newsletters for authors that I don’t even read books for. I am still unsubscribing every day trying to get a handle on my inbox, so I’m careful now and pick and choose.
I fully understand, I still get newsletters from people I don’t read or even know off.