What Are "Opt-in" and "Double Opt-in" Leads?

[Jared B]

Hi,
  My name's Jared and I'm brand,spanking new. Actually,I'm still in my free trial period. I'm very excited by this opportunity and have plenty of great ideas to promote the company. I'm trying to be realistic,be patient,and give this a shot for at least a year. I already have 2 or 3 potential sign-ups in my family. I don't consider this an MLM "scheme", because GDI offers a legitimate,quality product and service that is useful,attractive,and worth something.
   So anyway, I've been reading through a lot of threads on this forum (a very useful resource,BTW), and have come acroos many terms and phrases that I'm not familiar with. What exactly is a bulkmailing system and how does it work? What are "opt-in", "double opt-in", and "survey" leads, what do they cost,and are they effective?  I'm trying a few different avenues to advertise my business,including registering a catchy .com domain name ,since .com is more memorable and marketable than .ws. Then I forward that name to freedom.ws/USERNAME/show_dvd.  I notice many people direct customers to website.ws/USERNAME/show. Is that better?
    I just don't want to miss out on any valuable ways to increase my downline simply because of ignorance.

Thanks!

[Edward Gause]

Hi Jared,

When you see references to bulk mailing online, it's usually referring to purchasing a list of email leads from a company and them mass
mailing them.  You DON'T want to do this unless you are EXTREMELY experienced!!!  If you try it, you run the risk of being accused
of spamming.

The best way to explain single opt-in and double opt-in is by example:

Let's suppose you publish an online newsletter (a.k.a ezine) and have a form on your website for interested visitors to sign up by
providing their name and email address.  The information they provide is sent to an autoresponder and their address is now in your
database and ready to be sent messages.

The double opt-in method adds one more step to that.  When a visitor submits their information, a confirmation email is sent to the
email address they submitted first, asking them to confirm that they did in fact request to join your newsletter.  This is the common
method used by nearly all publishers today.  When someone submits their information and then confirms their request, the odds of
you being accused of spamming are greatly reduced.

As far as you purchasing a .com domain name and forwarding it to your GDI affiliate link, why would you want to do that?  If you
don't want to use your GDI hosting to create your own website, you can just use it as is and it.  Please see my previous post
concerning my feelings about GDI affiliates not using their hosting service here:
http://talk.ws/index.php?topic=7068.0

I hope you find it useful.

Cheers,

-Ed

[DPro]

Hi Jared,

Bulk mailing : a program that allows you to send out large number of emails at one time (a good one wouldn't cause your ISP to ban you)

opt-in : website visitors who give you their email addresses and agree to receive emails from you. Optin is necessary to prevent spam.
If it's single optin, then there will be no verification of email addresses.
For double optin, an automatic verification link will be sent to the email address that the visitor has submitted in the form, they are then required to
check their inbox and click on the link. This technique ensures that your visitors submits to a working email address instaed of some junk. So these are considered verified leads.

Survey leads are people who completed some sort of survey to determine their interest, so you know that they are interested in the services/opportunities that you offer.
These are also targetted leads and usually give you a higher sales conversion.

I mentioned in a previous thread an effective solution to build a good database of email list, please refer below if you are interested:
http://talk.ws/index.php?topic=7010.msg18574#msg18574

You are definitely moving in the right direction  , the forum is indeed a great place to learn.

All the best

[ScottPrice]

Just rememeber when you advertise online, its all a numbers game. Dont be discouraged if you dont get a lot of signups at first. Like any business, it takes time to build up.

Take Care
Scott

[Paul Noel]

Hello, 

I would like to know if there is a possibility to connec one of my leadcapture page to an autoresponder, with double opt in system, to send follow up messages?

Thank you.

Paul

[DPro]

Hi Paul,

Are you using your own lead capture page or the ones by GDI?
If you are using your own lead capture page, just put the autoresponder form code on the page to set up the follow up campaign.
If you are referring to the lead capture page by GDI (eg. http://website.ws/kvmlm2/ws.dhtml?sponsor=username&template=1),
then GDI will take care of follow up, it is not necessary to use an autoresponder.