Marketing Emails-How Kohls Is Abusing Their Mailing List

Be Good To Your Customer & Respect Their In-Box! Small Business Insights: Marketing My wife recently signed up with the Kohls mailing list in an effort to secure the occasional coupon and special offer as we entered the back to school and consumer-spending-frenzied-fourth quarter. And because she's been around me just long enough, she used our mutual Yahoo email address vs. her personal account. And in case anyone wasn't listening closely let me repeat that little pearl of advice: Secure a Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail account and use them specifically for mailing lists, registrations, and similarly disposable instances. They [...]

2025-08-07T11:47:34-06:00Internet Marketing, Ramblings|

Google Class Action Settlement: SPAM Or Conspiracy?

Was That Email Spam or Something Real? Did your spam folder surprise you by flagging a legal notice about a Google class action settlement? It happens—even when it’s from Google itself. One business owner saw notification via email, marked it safe, and still found it buried in G‑Mail’s spam filter. It was legit, part of a court filing, complete with a standard unsubscribe notice. Yet, somehow, even that got flagged. What Small‑Biz Owners Should Know Before dismissing such messages as conspiracy fodder, consider this: Sometimes, even serious notices can look spammy to filters. It’s more common than you think [...]

2025-08-07T10:58:46-06:00Internet Marketing|
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