07-09-2004, 10:02 PM
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Originally posted by Tom_PM
Emailing someone once and saying "Hey you want to trade links?" isn't "SPAM" by any definition.
Are you sure we have the whole story here? Sounds pretty damn silly.
Do people actually report as "SPAM" a single email like that? I cant believe that they do, it's too ridiculous.
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Originally posted by charly
What he was doing is not spam.
No comment on whether DG did or did not do it as he says but;
I can see what he's talking about. In the early days I went around the search engines using words like "Teen Porn" when I found a site I would look to see if there was an email address or go to Whois and find it.
Then I sent them off an email introducing myself to them. Got a lot of replies that were pure abuse, mostly from idiots with small crappy sites, and accused of spamming.
Marketing is not spamming, it's doing business. Paysites are in the business of delivering content, they need to buy good content, they need to be aware of the content available, especially new content providers. To dismiss an email introducing yourself as a content provider to a paysite as spam shows a lack of business sense and disregard for your business.
The right girl on your tour can improve your conversion ratios better than anything, to stick yourself in a rut and ignore a new content provider meansd your competitor might be a little more open minded and get the business.
NOT SPAM.
And it should be the same for any part of the business, hosting, design, affiliates, sponsors. I'm sory but keeping up with what is around you and available for you and your competitors is part of being in business.
Spam is a guy trying to sell me insurance or a mortgage. not even knowing or caring that he's emailing me andf I'm not in the US. Spam is high volume emailing, not targetted marketing.
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What the fuck is WRONG with you two??? Jesus Christ.
This is GFY.
Stop making sense. |
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