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Thanks for Nothing!

To all the marketers, salespeople, corporations, SPAMers, advertisers, and vendors who contacted me this week I say to you now:THANKS FOR NOTHING! Actually, I should say, “No thank you!” for clogging my inbox with junk mail, SPAM, worthless advertising, and phony thank-you letters. But what I really want to say is, “You failed!” All that you’ve accomplished is that you pissed us […]

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The Aggressive Sale Doesn’t Sell

Cold calling, and the younger, less effectual brother to it – cold emailing, are undoubtedly a part of selling and building a customer portfolio. They can’t all stop. But what needs to, and needs to maybe twelve emails ago, are the many, many, many phone calls (and subsequent voicemails) and the dozens of “follow-up” emails […]

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