Archive for November, 2009
The hard truth about email
Image via Wikipedia Many clients expect email to be sort of an automatic thing. The thinking is “I should hit ‘Send’ and it should arrive within moments.” So, sometimes those of us who work in email hear comments like the following: I understand that these delays may not be your fault, but we can’t have [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29
Off to Garland, TX, in the next half hour. Still hoping to blog a bit over the holiday, but no promises. # Powered by Twitter Tools
Email Hall of Shame: MySanAntonio.com
It’s Turkey Day and apparently time for another entry in the Email Hall of Shame. Today’s honoree is MySanAntonio.com, the website for the San Antonio Express-News. My mail reader is setup to not display images by default. As a result, here’s the entire email I saw in my inbox: Let’s just start by saying “WOW! [...]
Why not to contact Barry
Don’t pick up the phone and call Barry if any of the following conditions are true: You have not examined the error messages that have been returned. You have not researched what the error messages you received mean You haven’t opened a ticket normally yet You haven’t seen Barry’s normal processes through yet You expect [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22
New Abbreviation: DYWTFTL = Do You Want To Fund The Lawsuit? (for when people ask if they can do stupid stuff) # Wondering what all it takes to start a consultancy. # RT @spamfighter666: Rather than trying to figure out who @ISPRelations is, figure out if it is YOU he is parodying and change (AMEN) [...]
Can someone tell me why…
Can someone tell me why people who call themselves professionals… won’t do their own homework first? seem to be blissfully ignorant of how the people they are communicating with view them? think that merely having the proper relationships will fix any problem? demand answers from others without so much as a “please” or “thank you”? [...]
And Your Bird Can Sing
Image via Wikipedia Continuing with my recent theme of The Beatles Teach Marketing, let’s have a look at a new song. “And Your Bird Can Sing” was recorded in April of 1966, and like many Beatles songs appears not to have much of a history. John Lennon, its author, referred to it as “another of [...]
If you don’t have anything to say….
This is going to be a very short blog post. Why? Because I don’t really have anything to say. One of the problems of blogging is trying to come up with new material. It’s one of the reasons why it appears that my blog goes dormant for some stretches of time. The same thing should [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-15
Tagged.com to adopt reforms on the use of invitation e-mails and pay money to NY and TX AGs. http://bit.ly/1piAxp # To assuage any fears, despite my last two blog posts being over a break-up song, I will not be leaving my wife. KTXBYE # RT @aliverson: RT @jacaldwell @mostew does it again "Email's Antisocial Sin" [...]
Love Has A Nasty Habit of Disappearing Overnight
Image by detbuzzsaw via Flickr Following up yesterday’s blog post on the Beatles’ song “I’m Looking Through You,” I’d like to revisit a sort of one-off statement that formed the genesis for that post: And, as I listened to the lyrics, it occurred to me that often marketers forget that relationships are not forever. Looking [...]
