Irish Spamalot
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I get many emails from various Irish and international directories offering free this and that all the time. Most of them are very spammy- they’re unsolicited bulk emails with no personalisation at all and are generally full of links and breathless copy about how brilliant they are. Occasionally I get personalised correspondence that I’ll reply to just to see what’s on offer. And then there are times when someone follows up with a phonecall, and I end up with a good deal that I might have missed. I Do 2 Do is one such example of doing it right- John Foye the director rang me after his email and offered me a straight swap of a premium listing on their site in exchange for a banner ad on this blog.
Spammy emails don’t irk me as much as they do some, but I think they’re a terrible precendent in Irish marketing. The one I got today though is such a shining beacon of doing it wrong I’m reproducing it here. I’m not naming and shaming, but remember, this is an Irish company trying to sell me something.
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If you made it this far well done. I couldn’t take my eyes off it in horror at the lack of punctuation, proper formatting, and spelling mistakes (I don’t want to be “apart of this” thanks).
In my humble opinion screaming your message without drawing a breath or finishing a sentence isn’t going to convert anyone into a customer.
