I received this e-mail via the contact form on my blog yesterday:
I enjoy attending your workshops, am a regular visitor (read: fan) of your website, its always fresh, often humorous & always informative! Keep it up! Next time you visit KC, check out the “[name removed] Bar” for great food, music, service & atmosphere.
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Now really, does the person who left this but of feedback expect me to believe that they’re really someone who’s met me, even virtually? I’ll admit maybe I’m wrong (please correct me if I am) but I find that very unlikely. I will give them point for creativity though.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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2 Replies to “"Feedback" Marketing”
You mean they didn’t offer enlargement services or security services or…?
Spammers have indeed gotten more creative. Nothing like stroking the old ego to try to get you to let the comment through or let it stay.
Interestingly enough, it wasn’t posted as a comment to a post and therefore subject to moderation and/or removal. It was sent to me as an e-mail via my “contact” form.
You mean they didn’t offer enlargement services or security services or…?
Spammers have indeed gotten more creative. Nothing like stroking the old ego to try to get you to let the comment through or let it stay.
Interestingly enough, it wasn’t posted as a comment to a post and therefore subject to moderation and/or removal. It was sent to me as an e-mail via my “contact” form.