Here's an outfit to avoid
This is an example of how not to do marketing. I got up, started looking through the news items in BottomFeeder. I notice that there are new comments on my Good Sci Fi, Bad Sci Fi Post, so I have a look - and there's a comment advertisement for a bunch of clowns at a company called digiBlitz. Well, the bozo who left the comment - one Suresh Balabesigan - has guaranteed that if I ever have a need to recommend the kinds of services his company offers, his company will not be contacted. Here's a tip - if you want to advertise, it costs money. Here's another tip - you might notice that I'm not running ads on this site - which means that my level of tolerance for ad spam is going to be really, really low.
Update: I complained to the firm in question, and got an apology. That counts as a positive action on their part - hopefully, they'll have learned from this :)
Comments
Of course, if you did have ads on the site...
[Colin Putney] May 24, 2004 11:02:49.706
...your tolerance would be even lower.
In that case, comment spammers would be stealing something they should pay for, and taking money out of your pocket.
This is not a spam!!
[Suresh] May 24, 2004 12:25:17.585
Dear ALL,
First of all, let me make the point clear, "this is not a spam". It might be a mistake of one of our marketing executive to leave some text as we were doing 100s of directory listing, search engine submission and link exchange for the past 2-3 days, for which we have taken responsibility and asked for apology. Since james said he had deleted the text, we dont have idea about what we are discussing about. I request everyone to first investigate the real situation before making strong comments on an individual or an organization.
Thanks,
This is not spam either
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