Comments on: Yes Virginia, You Can Over-promote

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:03:58 +0000

I'm with Meryl... waiting for karma to kick in... maybe another lifetime?

I agree with everyone. And I delete and unsubscribe like mad.

Oh, and Lori's article on my site is about how to leave the content mills behind... getting a ton of comments.

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:04:38 +0000

I'm still waiting for karma to kick in. Some of these folks are seeing great results. Not from me. I unsubscribed to their stuff, or if that doesn't work -- I create a filter to send it to my trash folder.

Unfortunately, some folks have only one mailing list. So if you like the content, but get tired of the "Save X on the conference you should not miss!" -- you can't opt out of the promotion emails. Some places do make this possible.

One way to work with this is to create a filter. It's possible the regular content and the promotional content may have a pattern so you can filter one to the trash and the other to read.

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:16:28 +0000

I'll go Jenn one further: people who put links to their site / blog / deal -of-the-day in every comment they make anywhere. Throw one in now and then, but some people do it incessantly.

I'm late to the party. I've been shoveling. And shoveling. And I'm about to go out and shovel some more, but have no clue where to put the snow.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:19:23 +0000

Jake, AWAI has a biz-op course that trains people how to do internet research and then pitch their research services to direct response copywriters. Lori, it's "free" in that if you're the copywriter and don't want to pay for it, you're supposed to ask your client to pay for it instead. Because I'm on AWAI's "Wall of Fame," I have gotten literally dozens of these pitches from aspiring researchers. The saddest part? They are all using the same boilerplate sales copy given to them in the course.

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:55:11 +0000

LOL! Great point, Jake. 🙂

By: Jake P

Jake P — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:17:31 +0000

"...if you nag, I delete your emails and blog about you."

Kind of a modern update to the old saying about never picking a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel!

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:09:58 +0000

Jake, is she serious? She'll do your research if you send her all your clients? We have a saying for that - F*** that! What a shameless, brazen way to steal business!

Devon, amen. If you nag, you lose my interest. Worse, if you nag, I delete your emails and blog about you. LOL

Wendy, I hate that, too. Tell me what you want. Otherwise, begone!

By: Jake P

Jake P — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:01:16 +0000

As a survival tactic, I've become brutally quick on the "delete" and "back" keys.

And Devon, that is EXACTLY how I react to nagging: parabolic downward curve of event likelihood.

On a related note: I'm wondering if anyone else out here has received a few emails from a woman offering to do "internet research" at a discounted rate? Better still, it's FREE if you refer your client to her.

Not. Bloody. Likely.

Have a great day, y'all!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:50:46 +0000

What I hate are the 'click here' safari hunts. You get an email telling you they want to share something with you, so "click here" to find out what it is. So, you go to a blog post, start reading and then you get another "click here" to find out more. It takes you somewhere else for more click-click-clicking! Yes, I have nothing else to do but wander around the cybersphere trying to find out what exactly your point is.

Sorry, I can't do your work today, because I'm too busy clicking links for no real purpose. Do you wonder why I hate seeing the word 'here' hyper-linked?

By: Devon Ellington

Devon Ellington — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:41:24 +0000

It's not even talking to us, but talking AT us that drives me nuts.

And I'm one of those people, if you ask me or tell me something once, it goes on the list and I get to it in order. Every time you nag me about it, it immediately goes to the BOTTOM of the list. Nag me enough, and I will NEVER get to it.

Social media is about INTERACTION, not ME-action.