Comments on: How to send me scurrying your competitors’ arms http://www.artonym.com/2009/03/11/send-scurrying-arms-competitors/ A red shoe lover's blog Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:30:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: admin http://www.artonym.com/2009/03/11/send-scurrying-arms-competitors/comment-page-1/#comment-9 admin Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:37:03 +0000 http://www.artonym.com/?p=202#comment-9 That's the thing, Dc. I was really annoyed because it came to an address I only ever give out to clients / business acquaintances. I know where they got it from - a networking thing I attended a few weeks ago. W?hat bothered me was the sloppy, chummy tone of the email, combined with the fact that I was never asked if it was ok to use my email address to try and sell me stuff. As it turns out, it is actually a pretty useful service that is being offered but now I know that I will use any service provider *but* this one. That’s the thing, Dc. I was really annoyed because it came to an address I only ever give out to clients / business acquaintances. I know where they got it from – a networking thing I attended a few weeks ago.
W?hat bothered me was the sloppy, chummy tone of the email, combined with the fact that I was never asked if it was ok to use my email address to try and sell me stuff.
As it turns out, it is actually a pretty useful service that is being offered but now I know that I will use any service provider *but* this one.

]]> By: Detlef http://www.artonym.com/2009/03/11/send-scurrying-arms-competitors/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Detlef Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:30:36 +0000 http://www.artonym.com/?p=202#comment-8 Sehr geehrte Frau Jumbe, why do you read those mails at all? Professional interest? If you respond in any way you get them 100fold. It's sad, but this kind of marketing works in certain circles - I hear it again and again. 100.000 mails are sent out at nearly zero cost, assuming a response of 0.1% you have 100 visitors on your website. If the response is 0.01% you sent out a million. There are email addresses en masse - if you sell a mass product you may succeed in the short run. What would 100 visitors have cost you via web-advertising? - But what kind of people respond to this kind of marketing and how many potential customers you have annoyed with your insincere talk and spamming: that's another question with a big <strong>?</strong> Hochachtungsvoll Detlef Cordes Sehr geehrte Frau Jumbe,

why do you read those mails at all? Professional interest? If you respond in any way you get them 100fold. It’s sad, but this kind of marketing works in certain circles – I hear it again and again. 100.000 mails are sent out at nearly zero cost, assuming a response of 0.1% you have 100 visitors on your website. If the response is 0.01% you sent out a million. There are email addresses en masse – if you sell a mass product you may succeed in the short run.

What would 100 visitors have cost you via web-advertising? – But what kind of people respond to this kind of marketing and how many potential customers you have annoyed with your insincere talk and spamming: that’s another question with a big ?

Hochachtungsvoll
Detlef Cordes

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