pampered1224
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I ALMOST feel bad but...Here was my e-mail.
"Get me off your e-mail list and I want to know how you got me e-mail address?
I do not appreciate unsolicited e-mails or SPAM. Your idea is a good one but I would not touch it now because of the unethical way you went about advertising it.
You should have contacted our Home Office instead to see if they would say something to us about it.
Too bad too. There are only 76,000 plus of us and you already have turned off a lot of consultants to ordering your product.
My boss always tells to me too think with my head, not with a send button."
Her reply:
Dear John –
Thanks for your message. I appreciate your feedback, and want to explain that we did not intend to send any spam. Our offers are real, not fake, and we didn’t buy your email address from any list or vendor. Instead, our approach was actually an old-fashioned one: we researched potential customers whom we thought would enjoy our product – like Pampered Chef consultants – and put together a targeted sales pitch. The analogy is to a cold call in the bricks-and-mortar world. It’s true that we didn’t know you, but we wanted to bring you helpful information on a good product!
I’m sorry if we offended you, but please understand that we have only good intentions, and we are not a big, monolithic company. My sister and I founded Funanigans as a family-run business, and we are trying to get the word out about our new product. As requested, you've been removed from our list.
Thank you –
Megan
So here's my thoughts. She is only doing what any one of us would do to promote our businesses if we could. But because of PC company policy, we can't. So are we more upset about the "spamming" or the fact that we can't do this type of marketing? I will be the first to admit the latter of the two is a bigger issue for me. It's just not fair. And you know that she will get alot more takers than stinkers like us.
I also looked a little closer at the idea and concept. If you are like me and work full time, something premade like this might just be cool. You can easily set a time limit ont eh game and it is a good ice breaker that is NOT PC related. I find that if I do something that is not PC related in the way of a little discussion of some sort, it makes it seem like I was not pushing PC so much. I may just. Just to see it. Crazy, yeah. Stupid, NEVER. It would only be stupid if I passed up the opportunity to maybe find some thing cool. and if it doesn't work, well, it isn't like I haven't tossed $100 dollars out the window on a newspaper ad that didn't work. So which is worse?
I'l keep you all posted.
"Get me off your e-mail list and I want to know how you got me e-mail address?
I do not appreciate unsolicited e-mails or SPAM. Your idea is a good one but I would not touch it now because of the unethical way you went about advertising it.
You should have contacted our Home Office instead to see if they would say something to us about it.
Too bad too. There are only 76,000 plus of us and you already have turned off a lot of consultants to ordering your product.
My boss always tells to me too think with my head, not with a send button."
Her reply:
Dear John –
Thanks for your message. I appreciate your feedback, and want to explain that we did not intend to send any spam. Our offers are real, not fake, and we didn’t buy your email address from any list or vendor. Instead, our approach was actually an old-fashioned one: we researched potential customers whom we thought would enjoy our product – like Pampered Chef consultants – and put together a targeted sales pitch. The analogy is to a cold call in the bricks-and-mortar world. It’s true that we didn’t know you, but we wanted to bring you helpful information on a good product!
I’m sorry if we offended you, but please understand that we have only good intentions, and we are not a big, monolithic company. My sister and I founded Funanigans as a family-run business, and we are trying to get the word out about our new product. As requested, you've been removed from our list.
Thank you –
Megan
So here's my thoughts. She is only doing what any one of us would do to promote our businesses if we could. But because of PC company policy, we can't. So are we more upset about the "spamming" or the fact that we can't do this type of marketing? I will be the first to admit the latter of the two is a bigger issue for me. It's just not fair. And you know that she will get alot more takers than stinkers like us.
I also looked a little closer at the idea and concept. If you are like me and work full time, something premade like this might just be cool. You can easily set a time limit ont eh game and it is a good ice breaker that is NOT PC related. I find that if I do something that is not PC related in the way of a little discussion of some sort, it makes it seem like I was not pushing PC so much. I may just. Just to see it. Crazy, yeah. Stupid, NEVER. It would only be stupid if I passed up the opportunity to maybe find some thing cool. and if it doesn't work, well, it isn't like I haven't tossed $100 dollars out the window on a newspaper ad that didn't work. So which is worse?
I'l keep you all posted.
