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I feel like doing a little hating today.
So, I have had enough. Really, I can’t take it anymore.
Why are most PR, communications and news distribution service personnel so clueless?
This stuff really is not that hard.
Why are these people spamming me?
Quite being so lazy and get to know who I am, what I do and what I will write about. Really, it might take you an extra five minutes to fake that you actually give two shits.
Why would you sign me up for a service I never said I wanted?
If I didn’t say that I wanted it, do you think that you are doing your clients a favor my sending me news I don’t want. Honestly, it makes you and your client look bad. Really bad.
Do not spam corporate blogs. Do you think a corporation wants to get press releases from other companies so they can write about them?
Simple answer? No.
Look, I am not a journalist. This is not my full time job. I do this because I have an opinion, I have thoughts and ideas that I want to have heard. I want to create and engage in conversations with a group of like-minded peers…I am not here to crank out story after story about your new <insert widget here>.
If you want me (or anyone else that I manage or consult on blogging) please send me an email, introduce yourself, the company you work for (and your client), wait for me to respond, then sell me on why I should spend my free time (remember this is not my day job) writing about you.
This post was inspired by this comment. Thanks webitpr for getting my blood boiling this morning.
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Gotta love the spam. Too bad she ran on sooo much if she or anyone for that matter just wants to touch base I’m sure someone over at VS would get back to them by just simply saying… “Great piece, could you contact me I would like to discuss something?”.
So note to PR reps relax, don’t pitch so heavy handed. It’s almost embarrassing.
Hi Garrett,
I must apologise for the comment left on the VoIP Supply blog by Amy-Kate Wych. Amy-Kate is a new member of the team at webitpr, and I take full responsibility in terms of not giving her enough training in our policy’s regarding bloggers. We have already taken steps in regards to internal training to ensure we do not make the same mistake again.
We do make great efforts to try and understand the requirements of all the bloggers we work with and currently have over 1,000 opted in to receive releases through our service. We take this so seriously in fact that we are actually in the middle of a detailed research project into the needs of editors and bloggers in relation to a service like ours, so that we can truly understand what is required.
In regards to the comment posted itself, it did come across as very heavy handed and was not well written in explaining what we were hoping to achieve, and I take full responsibility for that. We are trying to ‘buck the trend’ in terms of how bloggers and editors are treated, and I am disappointed we have fallen below our usual standards.
Please accept my apologies.
Kind regards,
Jonathan Dolby
Managing Director
webitpr
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