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Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads
From: "Sholes, Joshua" <Joshua_Sholes () cable comcast com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:40:22 +0000
On 7/26/13 11:59 AM, "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis () ocosa com> wrote:
What happen to the days when you could simply tell someone not interested, don't call again and you wouldn't hear from them ever again????? Or the days when everything wasn't treated as spam????
When the former days disappeared, the latter days did also. In that exact order. If marketing wants to talk about "nurturing" leads, then I don't want to be a lead. Period. My attitude changed the day I got my SIXTH call from the same sales guy who I'd told "I might have the budget and need next year to get $product, and if so I'll definitely call you. The problem is that in this day and age of autodialers and call centers, most of the incoming unsolicited communications anyone gets are of a nature that they cost the person initiating the conversation orders of magnitude less to send than it costs you to answer. In the snail mail days, that balance was a lot closer to even, and so you weren't getting constant bombardments of semi- or un-targeted marketing solely because you had a publicly visible contact path. -- Josh Sholes
Current thread:
- RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads, (continued)
- RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads Otis L. Surratt, Jr. (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 26)
- RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads Warren Bailey (Jul 26)
- RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads Alex Rubenstein (Jul 26)
- RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads Warren Bailey (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads Michael Thomas (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads Warren Bailey (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads Barry Shein (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads Sholes, Joshua (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads John Curran (Jul 26)
- RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads Otis L. Surratt, Jr. (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 26)
- RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads goemon (Jul 26)
- Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads Rich Kulawiec (Jul 26)
- RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads Otis L. Surratt, Jr. (Jul 26)