Comments on: Are you an advertorialinsultomercialist?

By: Beware of would-be psychic clients and mutant projects

Beware of would-be psychic clients and mutant projects — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:34:31 +0000

[...] Are you an advertorialinsultomercialist? [...]

By: Brian Heys

Brian Heys — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:30:00 +0000

I know what you mean about the sales messages and TinyURL links. I’ve noticed that myself. Sometimes, I do click on them though, and they’re not all useless.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:57:00 +0000

OK, elaborate I shall .. or at least try!

I’d usually see comments like: “These guys are dicks! You don’t use [name of tech' here] like that! They suck!”

Or: “I just spotted some ****tard using [name of tech' here] to write a [name of web service here]. A**holes!”

Which is pretty bad.

Then there’s people wanting to friend you and all I get in return is a barrage of cryptic sales messages and TinyURL links…

By: Brian Heys

Brian Heys — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:14:00 +0000

Over on my blog, in my post that’s fast becoming a ‘Pownce vs. Twitter’ thread, you said Twitter seemed to be a domain of the advertorialinsultomercialist.

I’m not sure I’ve noticed this. Care to elaborate a bit?

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:55:00 +0000

Hi Kate!

I've sort of done this myself, though not the drinking wine part 'coz I can't stand the stuff.

I usually realize when I about to do it, and stop dead.

I say sort of, because I really don't know who my competition are.

Largely because I don't care!

The ultimate disrespect, I imagine.

I get talking to a lot of people who have been really badly burned in the past and become vary wary of dealing with other web agencies.

At times like these, I'm a councilor, a catholic priest and a diplomat all at the same time...

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:58:00 +0000

Good point, well written.

And people wonder why marketers get a bad rep.

P.S. You should SM that word!