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Guest Post: Does Lazy Networking Litter Your Inbox?

Posted on August 30, 2016August 26, 2016 by lwidmer

I’m away this week, and it’s a shame. You see, Cathy Miller has left us a guest post, and I’m not connected where I am. I can’t comment beyond what I’m doing here (days before I leave town). Cathy and I chat a bit offline (quite a bit). In one recent conversation, we recognized some…

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  1. Cathy Miller Avatar
    Cathy Miller
    August 30, 2016

    Thanks for the real estate, Lori. 🙂

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  2. Anne Wayman Avatar
    Anne Wayman
    August 30, 2016

    Instant messaging is almost as intrusive as cell phones imo… I don’t expect people to drop what they’re doing to respond to me…

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    1. Cathy Miller Avatar
      Cathy Miller
      August 30, 2016

      I marvel at all the means of communicating and yet, we still struggle with it, Anne. 😉

  3. Paula Hendrickson Avatar
    Paula Hendrickson
    August 30, 2016

    I encountered some really lazy networking the other day, Cathy.

    A writer’s newsletter mentioned a valuable tool on some big shot marketer’s website. Curious, I clicked the link. Before I could read anything a pop-up asked for my contact info. That was off-putting enough, but the info mentioned in the newsletter sounded worth it, especially since the pop-up said they won’t share your email address.

    Skimmed the info. It was interesting enough to bookmark the page, but not to read right then. Within seconds there was an auto response trying to sell me something, with a discount, of course. Okay, I get it. To some marketers think offering a discount is a way of saying thank you, even if I see it as pressure to buy.

    I anticipated monthly or maybe weekly updates from this place. But I got one every day or two. After three of them I unsubscribed. Thankfully it was one of the unsubscribe forms that lets you explain why you’re unsubscribing. “Too many messages” was what I chose.

    The experience was so annoying that I can’t even recall what the subject was that made me check the website out in the first place.

    Bad marketing. Worse networking.

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    1. Cathy Miller Avatar
      Cathy Miller
      August 30, 2016

      Oh, I hate that, Paula! I’ve had instances when I downloaded a free white paper and before I can finish the download, my phone is ringing with one of their smarmy sales people.

  4. lwidmer Avatar
    lwidmer
    September 6, 2016

    Cathy, thank you again for a great guest post! And thanks for keeping the real estate values up while I was gone. 🙂

    Examples of lazy networking — looking for easy. I’m all for asking other writers how they network, but the laziness occurs when one assumes that the copy-and-paste method of networking works as well as working at building quality contacts. When someone asks “How do you use Twitter/LinkedIn/Facebook to build your network?” and then just parrots what you do, how is that getting a quality connection? It’s not. And chances are there isn’t any follow-up or any preliminary research to see if it’s a person one would want to be connected with.

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