AOL Does NOT Like Work From Home Type E-mails, Duh!
I know it may be hard to believe, but AOL does not like e-mails from my “work from home” domain name. In fact, I am pretty sure they are blocking all e-mails from that domain name. Does that surprise me? No.
There are a lot of people (from all ISPs including AOL) that request info about “work from home”. Then, after inquiring about 10 different programs and getting tons of e-mails from all of them, they just start clicking “spam” or “junk” in their e-mail boxes to make the e-mails go away.
At least on my list, they did specifically request info on the job from me so I find it funny that they are now calling it spam because they are no longer interested.
Two thoughts:
First, I would be happy to remove them if they are not interested anymore. Just click on the remove link. But, having the site for years and having enough of them click “spam” over many, many mailings I am sure has gotten that particular domain name blacklisted somewhere within AOL (and probably many others). It has gotten to the point where people from AOL now complain to me that they can’t sign up to do the work. Which leads to my second thought.
Second, because AOL has decided not to deliver e-mails anymore and its not that important to me to get my e-mail delivered to AOL people for that particular business (this is only for the “work from home” list and not real estate–make sure you understand me on that), I have decided to be a little passive aggressive with AOL. I know its probably meaningless, but I tell people on the registration page that AOL does not accept e-mail from us and that I suggest they sign up for another e-mail provider (anyone but AOL), if they want to do the jobs I have.
If this was a hugely important part of my business, like working with real estate investors, I would do everything I could to deal with the issue. However, I don’t feel it is worthwhile in this case with this particular list.
Until my next post,
James