Spam or not spam?
OK I keep hearing about search engine optimisation which is now turning into search engine manipulation, and I agree spam sucks, but look at TV advertising is that not spam, I really don't want to know about how great a particular washing powder happens to be, in other words big corporations spam the masses, and that is a normal daily occurrence. The job of a marketeer is to get interested people, not the masses to view our sites, most of us try and do it the right way but we are under the control of huge very rich corporations so how do they make their money.
Comments (3)
Bruce Bates16
Cooperative marketing
I would find that annoying..... I agree that would be disruptive and borderline what I call spam, except it s not electronic.
Nick it goes against my policies but you NEED this information based on what you are saying. http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html
Go to that website and register. That is the UK do not call registration list. Its totally free. If you are registered there and keep getting hone calls, report every one of the companies calling you as its against UK law. :)
I hope
Nick Terracciano3
Marketer
The points you make are valid, here in the UK we are constantly bombarded by unsolicited phone calls and they occur at times when I am doing other things, and they certainly annoy me far more than a few spammy emails
Bruce Bates16
Cooperative marketing
Sadly this is something a lot of new marketers tend to believe, and as time has gone on there have been more and more marketers who come along saying the problem is the big corporations get away with things they don't.
No its not spam when a big company puts out un-targeted tv ads. Un-targeted advertising does not equate to spam. Spam is specific to electronic messages. The reason its called spam is because its free to do and interrupts other tasks people are trying to do.
With tv, I am sitti