I just love the smell of hate mail in the morning.
Check out the doozy below that came in yesterday.
WARNING for ye with tender eyes:
Strong and (even worse!) unintelligible language, read at your own risk or scroll down past it:
Message:
fuck you scum suckers and nazi fags.eat shit and die assholes.
Aaaah.
Hate mail is truly my morning brew of choice.
But methinks we need some balance.
So, here is an actual intelligent question about yesterday’s “Web 1.0” email:
You mean there’s hope for me yet? Too many balls to juggle.Would love to just focus on the basics.
But, the truth is, that FB done right, can gain a hell of a following of a hungry crowd. And, I look at FB and my cell phone more than emails. Lots of emails don’t get opened (even a few of yours, unless there’s vulgarity in the subject line, in which case it gets opened first).
Many people seem to do very well with an integrated approach.
But you’re saying if you can’t be bothered with SM (a true form of S & M) (and I don’t get Twitter at all) not to worry, just stick to good ol’ email?
People incorporating SM aren’t making more sales just by virtue of being in front of more people? I may not open someone’s email, but I may see something they post or a friend posts.
In any case, interesting counter-conventional wisdom.
I say (and I’m right) use it all if you want.
The more the merrier.
But if your life was on the line, and you HAD to make a sale, and you had to pick either sending an email to your list or lobbing a link at your FaceBook friends, hoping enough of them are going to see it at THAT particular time for you to get the sale… which will you choose?
I know what I’d do…
Hey, email is KING.
At least, if you do it right.
(Sadly, hardly anyone does.)
But social media is more like the court jester.
It’s amusing.
It’s fun.
It can at times even be useful.
But at the end of the day, compared to email… it’s a joke.
Email is where the real $$ is made.
To get your piece of that pie, go here:
Ben Settle
