‘Sharron; your opt-in form for your mailing list asks me to disclose my email address to you. – Why should I?’ you ask.
‘I’m not giving away my email address to you or anyone else; it’s private…’ You continue.
I want to stay in touch with you through your email address.
The reason why I’m asking you for an email address is so that I can send you special offers and notifications of my releases ahead of time; before I make them public and offer them to everyone else.
– In other words so that you have first option: This is especially useful in the case of limited offers; such as my Unique January 2015 Sale offer; (now ended) where I was selling both my 2013 album *On With the Show – The Album* and also my 2014 album *I’m A Person; Not A Genre’* in a package for the price of a single album, but only 200 pairs of albums were available.
As it happens I offered this on Facebook and Twitter, as well as to people on my email list at the same time; but I’m not doing that again: In future, from January 2015, my email list gets first dibs; before I go public with it.
– With limited availability any specials/awesomes/freebies will be even rarer and hard to obtain if you’re not on my list.
Also I’ll at some point be issuing freebies; merch, and other things. This will ONLY be to people on my email list: If I don’t have your email it means you won’t get the offer. – ‘Simple as that.
But who the F*** is Sharron-Idol?
Now, having just said all the above, you may have never even heard of Sharron–Idol (me), and you’ve just come to this site out of sheer curiosity alone, liked what you saw, and decided to join the email list… But then you were asked to disclose your email and instantly decided that I must be an email-spammer harvesting email addresses.
– WRONG – I need your email address to send communications to; otherwise how am I supposed to contact you?
Maybe you’re here as a fan and/or people or person interested in finding out more about me and/or my music. If so that’s awesome; because I have just the thing for you – but it will mean that you’ll have to exchange an email address for it: Otherwise I simply cannot send you notifications. I’ve tried telepathy/telekinesis but I’m not good enough at it to send you notifications that way; so it’ll have to be by email.
“- Just Give Me A Reason To Join Your List Will You!”
The reason is clear: The reason is because you’ll be missing out if you don’t join my mailing list. – There’s more in it for you on my list than not, and all I’m asking for is an email address. (‘Sometimes a name too; but what’s in a name? You could use any alias and I’d never know…)
It doesn’t have to be your usual personal email address: You might like to create a new email specially for the purpose of receiving awesome stuff from me; that way you can keep things compartmentalised as it were.
*Opt-in for Sharron-Idol’s emailing list – stay connected with this great new site…
Don’t worry; you won’t be getting any spam from me, ever, and I will never voluntarily disclose any email address you give to me, without a written genuine court order issued by the UK authorities. I have everything to lose if I do anything wrong/bad; and I’ll lose things such as my popularity, my fan-base, and my career. – I honestly don’t want to lose what I’ve worked years at and am still working hard to build up: If I sent you spam or did anything else dodgy I’d be ruined as an artist. – It’s just too much to lose.
And on that note, well that basically concludes this article. – Don’t be shy about joining my email list; I won’t send you a ton of junk. – ‘Heck I don ‘t have time to send much anyway; but I’ll ensure that you at least get advanced notifications and hopefully a few freebies.
Have a great day, and as I often say; ‘Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do: But if you do – don’t get caught.’.
The reason why I’m asking you for an email address is so that I can send you special offers and notifications of my releases ahead of time; before I make them public and offer them to everyone else.