Comments on: Best Way To Be Ignored

By: John Handelaar

John Handelaar — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:09:51 +0000

You can do anything at Zombo.com. Yes.

By: Nadiyah

Nadiyah — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:09:48 +0000

:::deletes the first three sentences from the introductory email:::

You mean web 2.0 isn’t original?

And we’re not breaking ground with our focus on an industry ignored niche that represents a multi-billion dollar sector of the market that leaves HUGE opportunity for growth and profits??

And we’re not pioneering the face of user-driven content based communities on the internet?!

Where’s Sherna?! We need a new idea.

By: patricia

patricia — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:20:53 +0000

Aw come on now guys. It’s not just the PR people that do things like this I can hear somebody speak on a plane to New York and know immediately they’re in marketing just by their tone and the lingo they use. Nobody I know says in conversation “I’ll ping you with an email” or “I’ll get back to you when I come up for air” but I swear every marketing person I’ve worked with has this in their standard lingo

But go easy on the PR people – this is a sign of either (A) a client who doesn’t realize they need to educate their PR people about their industry (instead being angry that they’re not experts, which happens moreso) or (B), a publicity firm that has so overloaded their staff with accounts, they don’t have time to really learn about and become familiar with the industries their clients are in.

By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:18:33 +0000

I smell a TC Contest for best delusional, fictional company submission.

By: Yaniv Golan

Yaniv Golan — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:12:14 +0000

I like this. I was looking for a good two-liners intro. We don’t do news though, is that like a problem, or can we use it anyway?

By: Alaska Miller

Alaska Miller — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:03:29 +0000

classic way of knowing your company sucks: not hiring a decent copywriter.

eg. google search “Leads Web 2.0 Revolution with New Unrivalled Revenue-Sharing Social Networking Site”

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/44356/DigitalJournal_com_Leads_Web_2_0_Revolution_with_New_Unrivalled_Revenue_Sharing_Social_Networking_Site

By: Steve Turner

Steve Turner — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:06:40 +0000

Classically delusional stuff…

And if you really want to find out who sent this to Mike, search enough of the quoted text above in Google and you immediately get the culprits…

By: Steve Collins

Steve Collins — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:49:26 +0000

I don’t know whether it was deliberate… but “ingored”. Beautiful!
Gored with something blunt and painful to pay them back for the greatest load of hyperbole I’ve seen in a while (and Web 2.0’s generating enough hyperbole-driven heat to bring tropical weather to Siberia). A load of bollocks, more likely.

Michael, you should have named and shamed.

By: Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:09:44 +0000

What?! As Dizzle says, this is a Gold Mine! You should have given them a link as a trade for the giggles all of us are having.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:16:07 +0000

I wonder if you will get even more requests with these two lines now from companies that just want to be clever. Will it work?

By the way, it would funny if you had a “silly pool” of all the dead weights although that would get you a lot of flag.