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Unsubscribes mailed again when you sell to IT support companies

What if someone who asked to be left alone gets your next campaign? Here is how people who sell to IT support companies fix it.

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What if someone who asked to be left alone gets your next campaign?

When lists are re-imported or copied, people who unsubscribed can slip back in. With spreadsheets there is no reliable way to prevent it.

It hits harder when you sell to IT support companies. IT support companies and managed service providers look after networks, devices and security for other businesses. Owners are technical and commercial at once, and they buy distribution, tools and services that they can resell or that make their engineers more productive.

Mailing someone who opted out damages trust and can cause complaints. It also goes against the rules in many countries.

Unsubscribed means never mailed again.

Riftjaw keeps an opt-out register. Unsubscribed contacts are skipped automatically in every campaign and are never mailed again. You do not have to remember to filter them out.

  • Fields that fit IT support companies, such as services
  • Email prefixes that fit, like info@, sales@, support@ and hello@
  • Status, tags and a segment on every record
See the feature
Campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and set the button
The campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and check the preview.

The fix, step by step

  • Include an unsubscribe. Every campaign mail carries an unsubscribe option in the footer.
  • Let the register work. Unsubscribes are recorded automatically.
  • Send with confidence. Future campaigns skip those contacts without extra steps.
Campaign results in Riftjaw with sent, opened and clicked per contact
Riftjaw campaign results on a phone
After a campaign, every contact shows whether the mail was delivered, opened and clicked.

Other walls when prospecting IT support companies

Support@ addresses go straight into a ticket system.

Leave support@ unticked in email from domain for this list and use info@ and sales@ instead.

Many IT firms describe themselves in the same words, so a list is hard to qualify.

Record services and vendor partnerships in fields and save filters on them.

Partner deals involve several conversations.

Statuses, notes and email history show where each deal stands.

Fields worth recording for IT support companies

Record these and you can split the list later, write sharper mails and see who fits your offer.

FieldWhy it helps
Company nameThe key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website.
WebsiteNeeded to derive an email when the export has none.
ServicesSupport, cloud, security or telecom focus changes what they resell.
EngineersTeam size shows capacity and licence volume.
Vendor partnershipsExisting partner badges show which platforms they back.
Client sectorsA healthcare or legal focus needs specific tools.
Managing directorThe person who signs partner agreements.

Questions people ask

Usually not, since those often feed a ticket system. In email from domain you choose which prefixes to use, so pick info@, sales@ or your own.

You can save those listings yourself and paste the HTML into paste and collect to turn them into rows, then import. Riftjaw does not crawl those sites.

If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as info@, sales@, support@ and hello@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.

Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.

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