I am REALLY trying to keep things on my blog positive, making my negative statements through omission. But I’ve just had a revelation about a feeling I’ve had for oh so long and need to get it off my chest.
My vision cleared when I came across a promotion today (here it is in a tweet no way I’m linking out from here) offering to package every blog post for automatic delivery to Twitter.
It’s like mass produced dung flinging trebuchets pre-loaded and precisely aimed at this nice community.
And I realized why I’ve viewed so many big name marketers with disdain.
They think I’m a Hoover and my only job is to indiscriminately suck up every piece of cr*p they launch in my direction. Or more on metaphor, a baby bird with mouth wide ready to accept regurgitated anything directly down my throat.
Don’t they get that blatant promotion and cr*p offers just don’t fly in this environment? And even if they have some value it will turn to cr&p if they lob every post they make towards us.
Kind of reminds me of IBM at the beginning of the micro-computer revolution. Old school thinking that just didn’t get it.
Oh yeah, I forgot, the big name marketers don’t care about us, we’re no their target market. As long as they convince their wool covered minions that it works they get the spoils.
But still, we end up with the excrement. And then get ridiculed in forums to boot.
OK, now I promise to hold my tongue for at least another week.
Tags: badmarketing, guru scum, social media faux paux
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Blackhatseo
July 22nd, 2008 - 5:12 pm