Oh Wait. Email Marketing Is Thought Of As Spam
from the wake-up dept
Here's an article written by an "email marketing consultant" as she realizes that most people think that what she does is spam. So, suddenly, she gets worried that people will have the same opinion of email marketing as they do of telemarketers. What she doesn't seem to realize is that most people are way past that point and think of email marketers as just as bad, if not worse, than telemarketers. The time to change that image was quite a while ago.
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Well duh!
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Spammers and Free Speech
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Talk About Missing The Boat...
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Regarding Cable and TV
Now you pay for cable and get advertisements as well. Even on HBO (although thankfully still not actually during a movie). I find this akin to paying for your ISP and having to see banner ads on web sites. This is just the way things are now.
As far as email spam goes, it is hard to find something similar in the television world... there is nothing quite like spam! Really its closest approximation has to be telemarketing calls. If you really want to make a television analogy, though, you'll have to make something up: imagine if whenever you turned on your television, you had to wade through a half an hour of commercials for porn and make-money-quick scams before you could watch any shows. While your television was on, you'd still get these commercials at random times. Even this doesn't parallel the need to sort your real email from your spam email!
Yeesh, does spam suck.
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