Sad, Bad PR
Following on my recent post, “PR” is dead. Long Live People.
I decided to try to be considerate, whatever…Instead of simply deleting PR emails unopened, reporting as spam or adding the sender to a black list, I’ve started replying, asking to be removed from the lists. And, here’s a response:
No one has ever complained before [No, they simply delete your stuff or report as spam] and I still managed to get great placements for my client in martha stewart, brides, first,forbes etc. I’m a freelancer btw and have several email addresses. I don’t have a company registered or anything. Don’t worry I will delete your email. That statement was extremely rude and disrespectful. BTW, I think you need help with your website. Its very “amateur”.— Original Message —
From:”Mary Schmidt”
Sent:Thu 12/3/09 3:12 pm
To:”XXXXXXX”
Subj:Re: CHEAP DECORPlease take me off your email list. It appears you may be new to the ways of emarketing, since you’re still using a gmail account as your biz address, so you may unaware of it, and have the best of intentions – but you are in essence spamming me. Not the sort of impression you want to create on behalf of your clients.
Sigh. This from a person who doesn’t capitalize client names (I’m sure Martha is thrilled) and doesn’t even have a web site (or a “registered” business?!) And, I’m being “rude and disrespectful” because I don’t want to be spammed. As for my web site, yep, it’s simple, but – gee – nobody’s complained before, including my clients who keep calling me over the years…and I even know to capitalize their names…;-)
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Mary, you’re slipping.
There should have been an apostrophe in the “its,” and the period should come inside the quotes next to “amateur.”
Well, dang. I was just impressed he spelled “amateur” correctly. (Seriously, this is a young guy, not long out of college…so I cut him some slack, including xxxing out his name.)