Just got this from reader and NMC member Nancy.
“I just got an email from my company website with a person requesting information on the product my company sells. I copied the email for you:
‘I have some questions about the product you are promoting. I would like to hear more of it. Can you make me a call. Here is my number ———. hope you can call me as soon as posible.
thank you very much.’“This was amazing to me since it was the first time in seven months that anyone requested information from me using this company site… I called. Lo and behold the person didn’t have one question about the product but rather was trying to sell me a business lead plan…”
People spam this forum with such emails each day. They offer comments like, “Real nice blog!” and a link to some leads program or porn site. People also try to spam the NMC/iGaggle members regularly, pretending to have interest in a product, but they only want to sell you. We catch nearly all of that at the door, so members never see it.
Check the look and language of any message that shows interest in your product or business, before you reply and give out your email or phone#.
For spammers, the grammar is usually a little off, and the language is not specific (like they don’t name the product or company they have an interest in). That’s why they figure they can send it to thousands of people, hoping to deceive some of them into calling and being reverse-sold.
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This is one of my pet peeves online! I have been marketing online for years and I have been spammed for years. To add insult, I used to do a lot of pay-per-click search engine marketing, so I actually had to pay to be spammed! So they not only wasted my time, but also MY money.
I have learned how to deal with the sneaky ones who just email me a name and phone number and say to call them. I don’t call. But since I don’t know for sure if they are spammers or just a person of limited vocabulary or typing ability, I send them a quick email that requests that they go to my website first to get all the details and if they like what they see, to call me for an “interview”. They never call.
I figure if they are serious, they will be willing to do their due diligence first. And if not, would I really want to sign them up anyway?
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I’ve had the same thing happen to me when I post an ad offering to sell something on Craigslist. Instant response, generic and misspelled, expressing interest in buying my product, regardless of what it is (someone from the Middle East wrote to inquire about my Snow Tires!!)
You have to keep your eyes opened….
This is one of my pet peeves also. Not very long ago I received an email via NMC from a man who said he wanted to “talk with you [me] about your [my] business.” I responded by asking him what exactly he would like to know and I never heard from him again. I also occasionally get calls from people who have visited my website and want to recruit me into their deal. I make short shrift of such calls. I don’t understand why anyone would use these sneaky and irritating tactics.
Was it Ray, at (xxx) 843-8367? He did the same thing to me.
You learn how to spot the spammers. What gets me is the people who fill out on-line forms to get on lead lists and pitch TO YOU when you call!
(I just ask them, if it’s going so well, why do they have to resort to sneaky tactics?) 🙂
— Walter Reade (from Wisconsin)
http://www.SpaBeautyAtHome.com
Hi Walter:
I’d post the guy’s area code too, and let readers call the guy and let him know what they think of these low rent methods he’s using.