First of all, I do not respond personally to unsolicited email. Spam is generally an intrusion on my privacy, a time-waster, and a general nuisance.
Before inquiring about my needs, do your homework. When someone, perhaps this is you, tells me they want to understand my needs, I expect them to begin by finding out a few things for themselves from openly available information. I started blogging my professional activities in the last century. I have published hundreds of articles on learning and development. I have written several books on the subject. My work is close to being an open book. Read it before we talk. You will find that:
- Internet Time Group does not purchase training programs, learning management systems, or advice.
- Internet Time Group is not interested in paying to attend your event. People pay me to speak, not vice-versa.
- I do not endorse products I know nothing about. I find no value in swapping links. I do not accept advertising.
Please remove my name from your mail list. If I need your services, I’ll find you.
jay
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Too bad, I had some really cool stuff to sell
I actually thought I was writing a Page, not a Post, that I intended to use as a reply to all these handy offers to check out somebody’s courseware.
Well said sir! Let the word be spread among the spammers of the world (to no avail I suspect).
…BTW, is creating an automated generic responder message to be distributed via the Web some kind of weird reverse spam?
Amen, Jay!
I’m sure I don’t get the volume you do, but I was asked to speak to a group of learning vendors in London last year to explain how I purchased learning products and services. Just beforehand I checked my inbox for L&D offerings, requests for meetings, suggestions that my organisation couldn’t possibly survive without the latest tool/methodology/approach/gismo etc. etc. I’d received 27 such mails from Learning vendors in the previous 24 hours. I checked again at the lunch break - another 13 …
Would I purchase a single one? No sir.
Like most of us, when I have identified and defined a need I then find the best person/company to help me address it.
Cheers
Charles
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