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SoCon08 Spam

Feb 13, 08 in Marketing   6 Comments

This (with my modifications) just showed up in my mailbox.

It was good meeting with you at the SoCon08 Conference.  XXX is a sales performance agency – focusing on sales recruiting and sales training for businesses.  We are sending you separately our latest newsletter, “Driving Profit,” which we hope you will find beneficial.  We would like to speak with you if you feel your company would like to increase its sales productivity.

P.S.  Please visit our website at www.clueless.com

This crap went to about 260 people.  Taking a social media nonconference attendee list and turning into a spam mailing shows an unbelievable disregard for not only everything that SoCon represented but the norms of Internet etiquette.

Don't do this.  Never ever.

Comments

Why protect the names of the innocent? Call them out (but don't link to them)

Josh Hallett  |  Feb 13, 08 at 09:02 AM

Oh wait....I guess they're not innocent...they're guilty!

Josh Hallett  |  Feb 13, 08 at 09:03 AM

I received that message as well. They also put all of the emails in the "to:" line, revealing all of them to everyone who received it. I think as a mea culpa they should put a Skribit widget on their site so we can request that they write about what they learned at SoCon08. Hm?

Dave C.  |  Feb 13, 08 at 10:06 AM

It's jack@salestalent.com. Bad mojo Jack.

Lance  |  Feb 13, 08 at 04:19 PM

I'm just catching up on emails. More than a public shaming here, I think he and his group should be forever banned from local events. You make an example out of one or two and that'll solve the problem.

Sanjay Parekh  |  Feb 13, 08 at 09:56 PM

Funny that a "sales expert" would try something like that. I checked out his website...not very good at all. Maybe he should re-read his book that he wrote..."The 21 Laws of Sales Success". I know I won't be reading it!

Mike W (Java3232)  |  Feb 14, 08 at 08:30 AM

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