Buying an email list may seem like a great short-cut for
growing your email marketing reach, but the chances of doing so successfully
are small, and the potential damage is not. Here’s why.
First though, why should we even care about email marketing
right now? Because email marketing, despite lacking the sex appeal of social
media and even SEO, is still one of the most effective marketing techniques
available. (According to Campaign Monitor, email is 6 times more likely to get
a clickthrough than is Twitter. McKinsey says that email is 40 times more
effective for customer acquisition than Facebook.)