In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/26/2007
at 08:11 AM, Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>If everyone opted out of notification of vendor products - do you
>think Share would continue to get the funds they need so that they
>can put on the conferences for us?
The Devil is in the details. If the vendors didn't spam the attendees
but instead made it easy to contact them, wouldn't that still give
them an incentive to sponsor Share? If Share had a simple procedure to
allow an attendee to register categories of products for which he
wanted information, wouldn't that be more useful to the sponsoring
vendors than alienating attendees with unwanted junk?
I ask as someone who filled in lots of response cards and who welcomed
the literature *that I requested*.
>I know how to use a delete key, or say "I am not interested at this
>time" or pitch something into the waste basket.
And some know how to maintain a list of vendors who are not welcome.
Alienating potential customers is not a sound marketing strategy.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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