Professionally persistent

Apparently there’s a new term in town and it’s being used as a screen to hide what’s really happening. You know those emails, messages, connection requests, and calls from the same person. It used to be called spamming; deeply annoying and timewasting. I don’t generally accept these connection requests and the About section of my… Read More Professionally persistent

How to not do marketing

I signed up for a webinar about podcasting in February. It was OK but didn’t get much from it that I didn’t already know so left after about halfway. Since then I have had 29 emails from the organiser. It might go a day without an email and then follow up with 3 the next… Read More How to not do marketing

Spam

Some people have asked, after Monday’s post about nothing for free, about how to get around being pursued. I have two solutions. The first is to set an Unsubscribe folder in your Inbox. Next, create a rule that any email with ‘subscribe’ or ‘unsubscribe’ in the body should be sent automatically into that folder. Check… Read More Spam