Should I buy an email list for my store?
No. Purchased lists contain people who never agreed to hear from you, which causes high complaints, bounces and spam traps, and it breaches the rules of most email providers and many privacy laws.
Consent is the foundation of email marketing. People on a bought list did not choose your brand, so they rarely engage, and they often mark messages as spam.
Even one large send to a bad list can damage sender reputation for months and may get your account suspended by your email platform. Recovering inbox placement takes far longer than any list growth is worth.
Grow the list with consented signups instead: onsite forms, checkout opt-ins, giveaways with clear terms and content people want to receive.
In practice.
A new store is tempted by a seller offering thousands of addresses cheaply. It declines, adds a signup form to its homepage and checkout, and offers a useful size guide in return for an email. The list is smaller but it actually buys.
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