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What’s Wrong With This Email?
Author: Cory H.2 Dec
Yesterday I received an email from a well known dating website asking me to pitch a survey to my readers. Here’s the text (embedded links removed):
We hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend! It’s officially the start of Holiday Season and the entire staff at Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com have been thinking about shopping, gift giving and of course - parties! That gave us a great idea for a holiday survey.
If your office party is anything like ours, we know there’s plenty of water cooler gossip the morning after, and tales of who hooked up with whom is usually at the top of the office gossip list! While we know with the recession a lot of companies have shelved their annual holiday parties, we were wondering who you - and your readers - would have a drunken hook up with under the mistletoe. Click on the survey link to let us know!
Happy Holidays!
Shira Zwebner and the relationship advisors at Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com
shira@date.com (feel free to drop Shira an email and let her know what a good job she did pitching a dating website to a guy who blogs about marriage…)
What I want to know is why would you pitch a dating website to a guy who writes about the challenges of being married? Also, it’s obvious that this person has never read my blog, because the survey is all about “who would you rather have a drunken fling with…”
Give me a break. If fewer people would have drunken flings, then there would be fewer broken homes and more happy marriages.
To Shira and the rest of the people at Date.com: don’t bother me, learn your audience, and keep your emails about office gossip to yourself.
EDIT: Since I’m having such a great day, I’ll add this: If Shira and the Date.com people want lessons on how to effectively pitch bloggers & social media mavens, I’m open to give some advice.
11 Responses for "What’s Wrong With This Email?"
*Just dies laughing* Wow. Wrong demographic indeed!
Untypically Jias last blog post..Check Me Out - Holiday Traditions
This actually reminded me of something that happened yesterday. My husband went into a Game store to pick up a pre-ordered Rock Band mic stand (for me, such a sweetheart, I didn’t even ask) and the guy asked him why he needed a mic stand and my husband said “For my wife.” and the guy behind the counter tried to “bond” with his customer by going into the whole “wife-nag” thing, and said something like “What, she won’t hold the mic for you?” or something rude, and my husband looked at him and said something like, “I know you’re just trying to be friendly with your customers and everything by trying to identify, but you’re wife-bashing with the wrong dude.”
Hehe.
Untypically Jias last blog post..Check Me Out - Holiday Traditions
Right on, Cory!
Like you, I’d rather promote “fewer broken homes and more happy marriages.”
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She’s probably just a PR person paid to push email. I get several of these a week. The fact she addressed you as “Hi Blogger!” is pure laziness on her part. Shame shame shame on her. Most PR weenies attempt to personalize the email with your actual name or site name.
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Squawkfox you are totally right. I get a few of these a week as well. I should refer them to Peter Shankman’s HARO courses on how to pitch a reporter or blogger.
Irritating.
First clue “Hi Blogger!”
Sure I admit I sometimes skim over peoples post but if I comment or send an email I try to look like I am at least some what interested in what they have to say.
Aren’t Dating sights supposed to research you and connect you with someone who would match you? I wouldn’t trust them after reading that, I might get matched with a drunk. (besides I am married and not looking, thanks very much)
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I got the same freakin’ email the other day - come on people, get it right.
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Who would I like to have a drunken hookup with under the mistletoe? That’s easy. My wife. They can keep the mistletoe and drunken parts also. If any husband answers anything other than “my wife” (or any wife answers anything other than “my husband”) then I’d say that marriage has something wrong with it.
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I just wondered on your post. As someone who works in the business of reaching out to bloggers, this what I have seen referred to as a “social media bitch slap.” And, it is well-deserved I might add. Thanks for sharing and reminding me what NOT to do.
but…i love drunken flings…i love them so good
Cory you do realize that at NO point did a human get any closer to that email than come copy-monkey in development writing it, and some tech plugging it into a DB full of spydered email addresses, right?
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*sigh* Indeed I do Steve, indeed I do.
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