That was the basis of a marketing email received a couple of days ago from a software company. I was testing out the free version of the software and as I had not logged in for 60 days they wanted to free up space on their server. If I did not login in the next 3 days the account would be deleted and all the information I had put in. 3 marketing lessons from this are:
Use It Or Lose It
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There's no real overhead to "keeping your account on the server". So the real point of threatening to nuke accounts is getting non-engaged customers to re-engage.
That's a great goal and a reasonable marketing thought, but there's dis-ingenuousness in the way the message is being delivered. They're LYING to you about their needs/motives.
Just some food for thought in an era when we're all so overrun by marketing messages that the slightest slip can be harmful. A better message would be "we delete inactive accounts because we want to make sure you're still there" (tweak away, marketers).
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Thanks for a great thought-provoking article,
Yoni
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