Friday, February 18
How to turn an UNSUBSCRIBE into a laugh
The verdict is in. In the spam wars, HUMANS WIN.
Check out this email exchange with someone asking to be taken off my mailing list for a special series of seminars I'm doing for a Chamber of Commerce:
*** Mike Dornenberg wrote: ***
please take me off the e-mail list
Then I replied with this:
***
Mr. Mike:
You bad man. No more seminars for you. No business plan. No sales.
You off list. Me mad now. No seminars, you hear?!! You off list for good!!!!
-- Huang
And he replied with the following:
*** Mike Dornenberg wrote: ***
No be mad. Me already know everything.
***
Is that classic, or what? I was being funny - and he was being funny. We were being human with each other!
Try something like this the next time someone asks to be removed from your list. You may win a friend, a client, or both!!
Check out this email exchange with someone asking to be taken off my mailing list for a special series of seminars I'm doing for a Chamber of Commerce:
*** Mike Dornenberg
please take me off the e-mail list
Then I replied with this:
***
Mr. Mike:
You bad man. No more seminars for you. No business plan. No sales.
You off list. Me mad now. No seminars, you hear?!! You off list for good!!!!
-- Huang
And he replied with the following:
*** Mike Dornenberg
No be mad. Me already know everything.
***
Is that classic, or what? I was being funny - and he was being funny. We were being human with each other!
Try something like this the next time someone asks to be removed from your list. You may win a friend, a client, or both!!
