It’s always good to keep an email short.
But it doesn’t help when one of your sentences (or 20%) is this:
“A content strategy, supported by a well defined and implemented “publishing” process, is the key to unlocking the full potential of lead management and sales enablement initiatives.”
Though I’ll take that over this any day:
“That damage is an element of the tort of negligence is not in doubt: actionable injury completes the cause of action, so that time begins to run for limitation purposes only from the moment it occurs.”
I seem to have picked two disciplines which are just full of meaningless waffle.
We’re finally getting some research into social media, hooray! Some more scientific than others.
First up, these tips on how to get followers on Twitter really made me realise how fixated we get on followers. Not the size of our impact, but how many followers we have.
How many times have you received Facebook friend requests from people you know but don’t talk to? Or from people you don’t know at all? It’s as if there’s a competition for the number of friends you have (one cousin has over 3000, and counting).
So how do you get Twitter followers? Always Be Linking. To random stuff people will click on. Repeat yourself. Follow people even if you don’t know them and aren’t interested in them. As many as possible. Attach yourself to popular people. Repeat yourself.
Sound like a familiar strategy?
Sounds a little bit like spam to me…
Speaking of spam, and size – check out this research paper from UCSD about the response rate for spam.
They’ve done a study on how many spam emails actually get read and how many actually lead to sales/computer infections. How? They actually extracted data from three existing spam bots running with a Storm worm.
The results are interesting. For your everyday ‘pharmaceutical’ (read: ‘give her a BIG surprise’) spam:
- about 350 million emails were sent over 19 days
- 76% were not delivered/blocked
- 10,000 people visited the site promoted
- only 28 actually made a purchase
That’s a conversion rate of 0.0000081%. (Yet it still apparently remains profitable enough…)
So, spam is not the way to go. Great example of HIGH AWARENESS, low influence.
the grass is greener on the internet 