How to Handle Clickable Links in Confirmation Emails

If you spend any time at all online managing your email, you WILL receive emails containing various kinds of clickable links that you will have to handle. The most common of these is the confirmation email. This type of email is sent automatically to confirm whether you actually subscribed to a mailing list or newsletter. It contains information, such as your unique IP address, that confirms your identity as well as gives your approval for the sender to contact you. This protects you from receiving unwanted email, and gives the sender some hard data that a person actually opted in to his list to protect him from spam complaints.  Here is a typical email containing a confirmation link (please do NOT click the live link in this email): click on the link above to watch a video  to see step by step how to sign up for, and confirm your subscription to the Art Marketing Journal newsletter.

—–Original Message—–
From: verifications@aweber.com [mailto:verifications@aweber.com] On Behalf Of Art Marketing Journal
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:41 PM
To: Susan Critelli
Subject: Response Required: Please confirm your request for information

Dear Susan,

We received your request for our special free report, “7 Mistakes Artists Make When Marketing Their Work” (and how to turn them into

exposure, recognition and sales!). Before we can send you that report we need to be certain we have your permission.

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CONFIRM BY VISITING THE LINK BELOW:

http://www.aweber.com/z/c/?nycys3czqbpupj2lgupk6v2damty036mg==6201

Click the link above to give us permission to send you information.  It’s fast and easy!  If you cannot click the

full URL above, please copy and paste it into your web browser.

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If you do not want to confirm, simply ignore this message.

Thank you!

Warm Regards,

Teresa Freed and Susan Critelli

http://www.ArtMarketingJournal.com

1163 S. Main St., #209, Chelsea, MI 48118, USA

Request generated by:

IP: 173.61.51.32

Date: August 20, 2009 23:40 EDT

URL: http://artmarketingjournal.com/category/how-to/internet-skills-for-artists/