I received an unsolicited email this morning from a niche job board that is really lame.\u00a0 The remarkable offer:<\/p>\n
I spoke with my Manager specifically about your company.\u00a0 I asked him to help me put together a cost effective trial package that would need to give you a good feel for how effective our service can be.<\/p>\n
I was able to create a private promotion that my Manager has authorized until the end of February.<\/p>\n
Since this is a private special, it is not available online. If you want to take advantage of it, you must call me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And of course the offer appears to be a 70% discount.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0 The fact that “Manager” is capitalized is entertaining in itself.\u00a0 However, the entire prospecting message screams “delete me.”<\/p>\n
I always appreciate prospecting approaches that are real, honest and straight-forward.\u00a0 Approaches like this one have far too much of a used car sales approach to be considered valuable.<\/p>\n
UPDATE:\u00a0 I just received the exact same email for one of our other sites.\u00a0 Perhaps this sales rep and Manager are quite the proficient team.\u00a0 Either that or it is spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I received an unsolicited email this morning from a niche job board that is really lame.\u00a0 The remarkable offer: I spoke with my Manager specifically about your company.\u00a0 I asked him to help me put together a cost effective trial package that would need to give you a good feel for how effective our service can be. I was able to create a private promotion that my Manager has authorized until the end of February. Since this is a private special, it is not available online. If you want to take advantage of it, you must call me. And of course the offer appears to be a 70% discount.\u00a0 Please.\u00a0… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[1760,232],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-sales-techniques","tag-communication","tag-prospecting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-n2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1964,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/an-awful-approach\/","url_meta":{"origin":1428,"position":0},"title":"An Awful Approach","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I receive many email approaches each day which often leads to studying each one\u2019s strategy.\u00a0 Here is the opening line from one I received today: WANT TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS? 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