Why are you hiding your email address? Is it so I can't find you? Do you not want to do business with me?
Hold on there.... put your fingers down... this is not a rant. Calm down and take a yoga breath.
The other day, and in fact on many occasions, I have wanted to send an email to someone. Not a text message but an email. Couldn't find it. Nope... not on their business card and not on their website. Oh... I could have pressed ....
"CONTACT US"
.... but that doesn't get you an email address. You might be directed to a form or it may open an email using your default email which in my case is not my business email. So if I want to send you an email I can do this or I could pick up the phone and call you and ask for your email address, that's assuming you have a phone number on your card or website. Or I can just pass and go on to something else.
Just the other day someone asked me to send them information on a particular subject... no problem but guess what... I couldn't find their email address. Looked on their website... not to be found, looked on their business card.. not there either. Oh yes.. I did pick up the phone and asked for an email address for something THEY wanted but can you rely on others to do so?
Some may say "good"... I get enough spam in my email, and you're right. On the other hand to what efforts would you be willing to go to get in touch with someone....or more importantly, would your potential clients be willing to go to get in touch with you?
I'm not saying there's a right or wrong... and for the record my email address is on my card and all of my sites. And if you want to spam me, there's always the "delete" button. But, for me, I'd rather delete the spam than not even receive the one email that might mean business for me.
What about you? Tell us what your thoughts are? Why are you hiding your email address? Just want to know...
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