Category: Spam
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Grasping the nettle of PR spam
Spam: a scourge of contemporary life. I’m talking about the digital variety rather than the savoury meat product originating in a mists-of-time, analogue age. Just about the worst kind of spam I see is that which purports to be relevant…
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Marketers ‘destroy customer relationships online’
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the problem with PR email, the results of a survey on people’s attitudes to the email that PR agencies and others send them. The survey paints a dismal picture of how email is…
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The problem with PR email
A timely story about that distribution channel so often misused by the PR industry – email. In an article published in Journalism.co.uk (and elsewhere), Iain Fleming, who works for Newslink, a news aggregation and delivery service in the UK, writes…
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Less email spam with OtherInbox
For the past few months, I’ve been using an email service in private beta called OtherInbox as a way to manage email from companies whose services I sign up for. This is especially useful when you sign up for something…