And Silicon Valley Watcher keeps the $10 Billion number story going - http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/09/idf_notes_the_s.php#comments
I work at an organization that used to get lots of press releases. My strategy from changing that included the following:
1. identify all the email addresses of the PR firms senior leadership and the email addresses of the senior leaders of the company they were pimping
2. sending a response email to the sender and cc'ing all the other execs
3. in a few sentences explaining: what a waste of time it is to send my organization a press release to someone that doesn't do anything with press releases; how wasteful they are of their client's money, charging thousands of dollars to SPAM a list that they don't have a relationship with; suggesting that the sender be fired and that the client fire the PR firm, etc.
4. finally...asking to be removed from their SPAM list
The good news: we NEVER get press releases anymore.
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The originals have been destroyed
They were kept on file, but in following with the law, the originals were destroyed after a year.
Re: Completely unacceptable.
Canada is a member - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
More usage of the big number in other stories
And Silicon Valley Watcher keeps the $10 Billion number story going - http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/09/idf_notes_the_s.php#comments
I engaged the senior execs of the PR spammer
I work at an organization that used to get lots of press releases. My strategy from changing that included the following:
1. identify all the email addresses of the PR firms senior leadership and the email addresses of the senior leaders of the company they were pimping
2. sending a response email to the sender and cc'ing all the other execs
3. in a few sentences explaining: what a waste of time it is to send my organization a press release to someone that doesn't do anything with press releases; how wasteful they are of their client's money, charging thousands of dollars to SPAM a list that they don't have a relationship with; suggesting that the sender be fired and that the client fire the PR firm, etc.
4. finally...asking to be removed from their SPAM list
The good news: we NEVER get press releases anymore.