Aug 07 2007
annoying email
This unsolicited note in my inbox this afternoon:
Beth,
According to my research, it looks like you and your organization are in a great position to leverage web-based collaboration solutions. Business benefits you can expect include reducing travel costs and increasing revenue, profitability and productivity.
Do you have a moment to set up a brief discussion about your business needs? Please reply with a date and time.
Kind regards,
[name deleted to protect guilty]
Director, Customer Success
I’m sorry, name, but your research appears to be faulty, as I (and generally my colleagues) actually wouldn’t really be appropriate customers for your product. Unless by “research” you really meant “harvesting of emails from ppl who have ever been required to enter email/name data while attending a conference using your product and aren’t currently customers.”
Random thought on annoying email; I get email every now and then from people who claim to be real mercenaries, asking for aliases.
I’ve considered registering ‘mercspace.com’. What do you think? It can be the next facebook for mercenary soldiers…we can put up a questions and answers section, “What is your favorite weapon?” etc. Then instead of “friending”, we can have “platooning”. The myspaceesque glitter banners would have to come eventually.
Ha! A fine side-business, eh? Imagine the uproar once the Public discovers the site via the oh-so-helpful media. Whee!
Hm. I wonder what kinds of music would be playing from those mercspace pages (aside: how much do I hate that, opening myspace pages to have unwanted music blaring thru my speakers?)…
Clearly this is an underserved demographic. Media spin can possibly be controlled by requiring friend invites (like “iminlikewithyou”…the media blitz on that “site of questionable morals” lasted two days).
I think the international soundtrack to war is _The Roof is On Fire_ but it’s also possible that a selection from the soundtrack of _Team America: World Police_ would be chosen, or anything by Jonny Cash…