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You can have some fun with this - it's called 'spot the way in'. That is, looking in your stats for how they've found you, and tracking what they've read before they decide that you are the one. And how many times they return.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 7:03 a.m. | #

Full names next time?

Novaelius | 14.01.11 - 8:22 a.m. | #

"Just thinking aloud but with the obvious cross fertilisation of our sites"

Ugh!

IanVisits | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 8:23 a.m. | #

heh, I get way too many of these.

These and the offers of £25 for a text link to a poker site.

arseblogger | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 9:18 a.m. | #

I love these articles, and spotting how many of the same emails I've had.

Thankfully, they mostly end up in my spam folder automatically.

Keep up the good work, anyway.

Tom | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 9:20 a.m. | #

The most annoying one I got recently was offering articles to appear on my website. The advantage to me, apparently (apart from the fee) was that 'my readers would get something interesting to read'. The cheek of it.

disgruntled | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 10:12 a.m. | #

You write about London and London contains many fine properties, therefore you are 'property blogging'. At least in their eyes.

Debster | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 11:30 a.m. | #

I did have a laugh at this one "with the obvious cross fertilisation of our sites". Are there marketing training courses that teach you how to write such rubbish?

Jon Combe | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 12:42 p.m. | #

Working in marketing, one thing we always look for is a pitch policy, ie do you accept them or not. To stop some of them (and my guess it would have been only 2 of your examples, so may not have that big an impact) why not put up a page saying 'No marketing emails'?

Rachel | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 1:13 p.m. | #

I got that e-mail from Chris, too.

Who on earth would take that kind of bollocks up?

darryl | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 2:03 p.m. | #

You deserve payment just for dealing with this filth in your e-mail. Not sure that this filth is something I want to read...but, I guess you think there's no reason why you should keep it all to yourself.

B | 14.01.11 - 9:57 p.m. | #

One option is to take your email address off your main page --have a separate page that anyone wishing to contact you has to go to first. Entitle it, "READ THIS BEFORE YOU EMAIL ME" or "STRICT EMAIL POLICY" or something like that. It is on this new page that you would provide your email address, but perhaps first a paragraph or sentence in which you explain what sorts of emails you are not interested in receiving. Maybe, just maybe, some would actually read it and would respect your wishes.

jesse | 14.01.11 - 10:37 p.m. | #

Well yes, Jesse, I could do that. Except that 90% of the emails I get via that sidebar address are actually from lovely people.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 14.01.11 - 10:39 p.m. | #

Still hoping the social marketing gurus don't take the hint. They're far too entertaining.

James | Homepage | 06.02.11 - 11:32 a.m. | #











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