Promoting an online business in most cases involves sending emails to a list of people.  Bulk email can be detrimental to your business if handled incorrectly.  Once a single email from your company is labeled as SPAM, it may cause your entire company’s email addresses to be blocked by the email service providers such as AOL, YAHOO and MSN. Moreover, your site can be blocked, too, by the search engines, and worst, it may be kicked off your hosting service provider.

Getting rid of SPAM emails and sites is what most ISPs, hosts and search engines want. These people that they consider spammers cause annoyance to their customers and a huge waste of their bandwidth. That is why they do take action once they get a sufficient number of complaining customers.

Given this information, it is best to think twice before sending email advertisements to several people. You may be able to buy email addresses from companies claiming that people opted-in to receive your messages and promise a huge conversion rate. But better think again. These companies may just be fooling you to make money.

Thus, it might be best to think of other ways to send advertisements or promote your products. It can still be possible with the concept of bulk email marketing. The only difference is, instead of sending the email advertisements to unknown people, send it to your existing customer base.