'Dipsh-t Marketing'

I can think of some really stupid marketing efforts. One that comes to mind is when Verizon used to put telephone bill inserts in telling you about all the benefits of Caller-ID, the prices and requesting you call them to order the service.

Of course, when you called, they said, yeah, well, we don't offer caller-id in your area! Now, your phone bill contains your phone number, the phone companies exchange and who better would know if you could get Caller-ID or not and include relevant marketing materials or not.

Verzion chose rather than to market their services, to simply spend mega bucks on a PR campaign to piss off people!

Now not long ago I had the bright idea of signing up with, reviewme. A complete waste of my time, as they declared that The website is a suspected fake, among other detracting factors and told me to take a hike.

Today, I was surprised to find what can only be described as spam in my inbox from none other than reviewme.com. It would be hard to say that the email was sent as part of some legitimate business relationship as not only did they turn me down cold, they declared me to be fake [I do not exist beyond my websites, so if my websites are fake, I am fake].

The spam reviewme.com sent today was telling me all about a new service to "earn more money from my blog(s)." Now, if they have already decided that my websites are fake, what's the point of trying to interesting me in some new and wonderous services?

Do they want to smash me down again? Do they get their jollies in the corporate board room telling little pissant schmucks like me we are fake? And once, isn't enough?

Now, what would inspire reviewme.com to send such an email to someone they have already declared to be fake and otherwise worthless? I should think once you tell some their website is fake, that would be a serious indicator to stop sending them promotional emails at once!

That brings me back to spam. Most spammers really don't care about targeting their marketing efforts. More is better, if the results are less. I guess reviewme.com doesn't want to do business with "fake" websites, but is more than happy to fill their inbox with junk email!

Now that I would call "fake marketing"!

I feel like I want to puke when I read on the web about what a marketing whiz, Jonathan Shapiro, the Chief Executive Officer of "Media Whiz", owners of reviewme.com is! Piss off!

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From: "Support ReviewMe" support@reviewme.com
Subject: RE: Attn: Re: BlogRolled.com
Date: Wed 06/18/08 08:45 AM

Hello,
I am not sure a comment is necessary. You continually claim we called you a fake, that is far from the truth. You are referring to an e-mail that is sent when a blog is rejected. It is an automated e-mail and it details a few reasons why a blog would be rejected. It does not say, you are being rejected because you are a fake. It covers three areas that are the most popular reasons to be rejected. However, those reasons do not necessarily apply to your blog.

Thanks,
Steve Spiegla
ReviewMe Support
support@reviewme.com

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