This is a little long of a post so please bare with me, I really need your advice/support
Ok, I don't know how many of you use Gmail, but if you do, beware that anytime you email someone, their email address gets saved in you contact list. If you are like me, when you send out your newsletters you select everyone on your contact list, because well if they are there then you put them there right? Wrong. and, I have currently been joining meetup groups on meetup.com. Great website you should check it out because there is a lot of potential for meeting people.
So anyway, I am a huge dog lover and joined a few dog groups of specific breeds even tho I dont have that particular dog, mainly because I just want to meet people that share the same dog love that I have. Well, one lady from the group emailed me to welcome me to the group and asked about my pug. I told her that I did not have a pug at this time but that I was into learning more about them because I rescue and adopt dogs all the time. Well I made the first mistake of emailing her back because her contact info got added to my emailing list. The past couple of days I have been emailing my list asking for help with my goal this month (which I met!!!) and I get this email today:
Hi Randi:
I am requesting that you remove me and the rest of the Pug Meetup Vegas members from your Pampered Chef mailing list. I did not join the meetup to be solicited by a person who doesn't even have a pug. The meetup is not designed for you to use it as a contact list to further your business, it is for pug lovers and owners to get together and play with the pugs. Thank you for listening to my request.
Stephanie
So I was a little peeved at the "attitude" that is reflected here. So in my nicest email voice this is what I emailed back:
Dear Stephanie,
I appreciate your concerns. Please understand that I am not intentionally adding people to my mailing group, I am still learning the ins and outs of gmail and anytime I receive or reply to emails that email address is added to my contact list. I am just learning this as of recently. Since we have emailed back in forth a couple of times you were unintentionally added. The group is not added in a whole just email addresses that I have had in my email box. I do appologize for this confusion I am working on correcting it.
I understand your concerns on my joining the group although I do not own a pug, but my intentions were strictly harmless as I am a HUGE dog lover and supporter and although I do not have a specific breed of dog, I am a rescuer and a donater to all organizations that are animal related. I was only hoping to meet people in this organization in hopes of being there in case an animal needed fostering or care. Yes, I also wanted to share that my business does do fundraisers, in hopes to help raise monies for the Pug Rescue as well as other dog rescue organizations, but this was not the main reason I wanted to join the group. I wanted to meet other dog lovers that share the same interests as I. And I do not make money on fundraising, everything is donated to the organization. It is my ultimate goal to own my own rescue and rehabilitation center for all animals, mainly dogs to help them in their search for homes and families. And in my quest to reaching my goal, I am currently studying types of dogs and breeds to be able to work with them by knowing their traits and behaviors.
Again, I do apologize to you for you being added to my mailing list by accident, I will be sure to remove your email address, as I am pretty sure you are the only one in the group that is getting these emails. Please let me know if others are as well, I will gladly take them off.
Please accept my sincere apologies for my lack of knowledge of my email system, I will try to be more aware of what is going on in the future.
Thank you
Do you think that I handled this well? I am just very taken back by the rude email!
Ok, I don't know how many of you use Gmail, but if you do, beware that anytime you email someone, their email address gets saved in you contact list. If you are like me, when you send out your newsletters you select everyone on your contact list, because well if they are there then you put them there right? Wrong. and, I have currently been joining meetup groups on meetup.com. Great website you should check it out because there is a lot of potential for meeting people.
So anyway, I am a huge dog lover and joined a few dog groups of specific breeds even tho I dont have that particular dog, mainly because I just want to meet people that share the same dog love that I have. Well, one lady from the group emailed me to welcome me to the group and asked about my pug. I told her that I did not have a pug at this time but that I was into learning more about them because I rescue and adopt dogs all the time. Well I made the first mistake of emailing her back because her contact info got added to my emailing list. The past couple of days I have been emailing my list asking for help with my goal this month (which I met!!!) and I get this email today:
Hi Randi:
I am requesting that you remove me and the rest of the Pug Meetup Vegas members from your Pampered Chef mailing list. I did not join the meetup to be solicited by a person who doesn't even have a pug. The meetup is not designed for you to use it as a contact list to further your business, it is for pug lovers and owners to get together and play with the pugs. Thank you for listening to my request.
Stephanie
So I was a little peeved at the "attitude" that is reflected here. So in my nicest email voice this is what I emailed back:
Dear Stephanie,
I appreciate your concerns. Please understand that I am not intentionally adding people to my mailing group, I am still learning the ins and outs of gmail and anytime I receive or reply to emails that email address is added to my contact list. I am just learning this as of recently. Since we have emailed back in forth a couple of times you were unintentionally added. The group is not added in a whole just email addresses that I have had in my email box. I do appologize for this confusion I am working on correcting it.
I understand your concerns on my joining the group although I do not own a pug, but my intentions were strictly harmless as I am a HUGE dog lover and supporter and although I do not have a specific breed of dog, I am a rescuer and a donater to all organizations that are animal related. I was only hoping to meet people in this organization in hopes of being there in case an animal needed fostering or care. Yes, I also wanted to share that my business does do fundraisers, in hopes to help raise monies for the Pug Rescue as well as other dog rescue organizations, but this was not the main reason I wanted to join the group. I wanted to meet other dog lovers that share the same interests as I. And I do not make money on fundraising, everything is donated to the organization. It is my ultimate goal to own my own rescue and rehabilitation center for all animals, mainly dogs to help them in their search for homes and families. And in my quest to reaching my goal, I am currently studying types of dogs and breeds to be able to work with them by knowing their traits and behaviors.
Again, I do apologize to you for you being added to my mailing list by accident, I will be sure to remove your email address, as I am pretty sure you are the only one in the group that is getting these emails. Please let me know if others are as well, I will gladly take them off.
Please accept my sincere apologies for my lack of knowledge of my email system, I will try to be more aware of what is going on in the future.
Thank you
Do you think that I handled this well? I am just very taken back by the rude email!