A day at the office...
Just thought i'd share an experience I had earlier today...
While researching link partners for a client, I came across a website (which I won't name), that was clearly in need of some help, both in design and optimising - they simply had a single, cluttered page with no real focus or real info about their business. Being an active searcher for new business, I contacted them via email with a short message, and offered my services to them if they were interested. Now I wasn't pushy about it or anything like that, just a simple offer of my time and expertise...
Ten minutes goes past, and I get an email response back from them (to which I was quite surprised), so I open it up, and start reading. The company, not only wasn't interested in my website design services, they occused me of spamming them, and reported my address as well. Nice isn't it... try and do something helpful for some people and what do you get for your troubles...
Now I personally hate spammers like anyone, but anyone in their right mind can tell the difference between a spam email, and a legitimate and honest email. If I get anyone legitimately offering their services to me (just like I did), then I simply send them a response back saying i'm not interested. Spammers however, just get blocked and deleted, not even acknowledged.
The thing that got me though...after they accused me of spamming, they actually responded to my message!
Err Hello...now if I was a spammer (which i'm not), that's not the smartest thing to do is it, as then i'd now have a legitimate address to actually spam as I knew it was actively checked. I wouldn't have minded getting no response at all, or even a message back saying 'no thanks', like I mentioned above, that's fine. I'd leave it at that and go on with more important things. The person at the other end clearly wasn't the sharpest knife in the draw... with a reaction like that i'm not surprised their site still looks the way it does...
While researching link partners for a client, I came across a website (which I won't name), that was clearly in need of some help, both in design and optimising - they simply had a single, cluttered page with no real focus or real info about their business. Being an active searcher for new business, I contacted them via email with a short message, and offered my services to them if they were interested. Now I wasn't pushy about it or anything like that, just a simple offer of my time and expertise...
Ten minutes goes past, and I get an email response back from them (to which I was quite surprised), so I open it up, and start reading. The company, not only wasn't interested in my website design services, they occused me of spamming them, and reported my address as well. Nice isn't it... try and do something helpful for some people and what do you get for your troubles...
Now I personally hate spammers like anyone, but anyone in their right mind can tell the difference between a spam email, and a legitimate and honest email. If I get anyone legitimately offering their services to me (just like I did), then I simply send them a response back saying i'm not interested. Spammers however, just get blocked and deleted, not even acknowledged.
The thing that got me though...after they accused me of spamming, they actually responded to my message!
Err Hello...now if I was a spammer (which i'm not), that's not the smartest thing to do is it, as then i'd now have a legitimate address to actually spam as I knew it was actively checked. I wouldn't have minded getting no response at all, or even a message back saying 'no thanks', like I mentioned above, that's fine. I'd leave it at that and go on with more important things. The person at the other end clearly wasn't the sharpest knife in the draw... with a reaction like that i'm not surprised their site still looks the way it does...
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