IM Marketing

from the uh-oh,-watch-out dept

The marketers are coming to IM. Not that this is particulary surprising, but it is somewhat amusing reading an article of a marketer struggling with how to spam IM users without it seeming like spam. I think he actually makes a really good point at the beginning, talking about the importance of "neighboring" - where people who move to a new area ask their neighbors for the best local restaurants, stores, services, etc. People trust other people. They don't trust marketers (partly because marketers don't have a very strong reputation for really looking out for anyone's best interests other than their own).

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    All they will do

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    Lee, May 15th, 2002 @ 7:12pm

    All they will do with IM spam is piss people off. I wonder if IM can be filtered through something like spamcop.

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    Re: All they will do

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    Anonymous Coward, May 16th, 2002 @ 8:31am

    sure, block anyone who isn't on your buddy list

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    Marketing Hater, May 16th, 2002 @ 10:35am

    More of the same BS from marketers, practitioners of the world's most weasely profession. When are these people going to wake up to the fact that they are becoming more and more irrelevant as technology marches on?

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