Paul Cantrell
PRO TIP: If you are sending cold marketing emails to people who are almost as excited about deleting them as they are about not getting them in the first place, make sure you remember to actually state •what the hell you’re asking for•.
Yes, I can infer what they mean — DO NOT explain in my replies — but the vagueness of this email still cracks me up. Their head is so far up the butt of their employer they’ve forgotten that “having a story live” is in-job jargon, meaningless to their reader.
Paul Cantrell
I like to read that message in a mad scientist voice — or maybe Dr. Strangelove — with “live” pronounced as the verb instead of the adjective:
“I am…highly interested in have a few stories…liiiiiive!! BWAHAHAHAHA”
Kevin McCoy
@inthehands I was going with kind of like an adopt-an-article at the article shelter vibe. "We only have room for ten articles, if you want to see an article live, please let us know and we'll send it to you."
Mike Hicks
@inthehands Makes me think of the time I saw a "live close" sign and was pondering what "active shutting" must be until I finally realized it meant "dwell nearby"
Paul Cantrell
@mulad beautiful
Paul Cantrell
@aubilenon Yeah. It’s helpful to remember that something like this only has to succeed…what, one out of 1000 times? less? to pay off.
Jesse Morris
@inthehands We get a lot of “let me write an article for your website" spam too. It's hard for me to imagine who could ever possibly want that.
Paul Cantrell
This BS has gotten utterly out of hand.
innig.net is my personal web site. It mostly consists of piano recordings (mostly made in my living room) and poems I wrote in my 20s. Parts of it predate the general availability of CSS.
Yes, by all means, show it to your 1.8M prospective investors. Sure. This learned business shark is too cunning to be understood, at least by this simple redhead.
Paul Cantrell
@scubbo
Yeah, I had a similar thought about both of these messages — and reached a similar conclusion about who the bigger loser would be.
Jack Jackson
@inthehands I'd be tempted to encourage you to waste their time - if I wasn't also firmly of the opinion that your time is more valuable than theirs
Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
@inthehands yes, two of the three occurrences of StartEngine were redacted 😝
Paul Cantrell
@slink hehe, oops
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