This is a great way to piss off prospects… [Amended]
I’ve decided to take this post down. It was posted in good fun and I’m glad it provided amusement for most all but, upon reflection and a related conversation or two have decided to take it down. I’ve no desire to cause personal pain and as I hope you know do not make a practice of taking posts down.
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December 11th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Wow…go Laser Reproductions of Ohio! I laughed really really hard at this post Francois, mainly because I’ve received similar inquiries from sales people that have the same amount of sense when it comes to prospecting. Outbound Marketing can be great…if it is targeted, useful, and not automated…which this appears to have been. If it wasn’t…well wow. Interesting though, I hope that more companies will reevaluate how they conduct business…it doesn’t make sense to waste resources on this kind of foolishness.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Maybe they’ll trade you CNC and SLS prototypes and in return you can prototype their marketing plan so it works.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Can this be real? I can’t believe people actually write these kind of responses to prospects.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
So….they were just waiting for you to answer the reasonable question that would set you up for the smarmy sales pitch?! That’s really objectionable. Kinda leaves a bad taste just reading about it!
December 11th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Laughing outloud. This is the one I’ll start using in 2009:
“If we take you out of our database, you may very well end up broke, critically ill, or even dead by the end of next year! Are you sure you want us to remove your name from our records? You understand that once we do this, we won’t be responsible for what happens to you, right? If I were you, I would give that request SERIOUS consideration. Maybe you should sleep on it and call us next week when you’ve come to your senses. By the way, if you refer five businesses by January 30, we’ll give you 17% off your next SLA project!”
Brilliant. These guys sound like a lovely company to work for.
December 11th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Being the great man Francois is, what we all need to do, as friends of Francois, is get together and buy the man a great bottle of champaign! He can then go and have a few cups of cheer and forget about all the evil people and salesmen who rear their ugly heads in his hectic life.
Long live Francois!
December 11th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Too funny… this made my day! This is not the time to not be prototyping Francois… burn in hell!! BWAAHAAHAAA… BWAAHAAHAAHAAAAA