Nothing pleases the ‘evil’ side of me more than fielding a sales call from a ‘search engine marketing firm’ calling a search engine marketing firm to solicit business.  The other day, we got such a call. Normally I don’t take cold sales calls, but whenever I see a search engine marketing company calling our office on the caller ID, I’m drooling to take the call.  This girl Kate calls the other day, announces to our customer care Rep Danielle that she has found some interesting information about our company and she would like to speak to the person who handles the search engine marketing for the firm.  Danielle puts her on hold and intercom’s me to see if I want the call.  Absolutely.  She puts the call through and Kate begins her spiel….

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Was talking to one of my long time customers the other day, checking in and see how he was doing. He was sharing with me how many so called search engine optimization companies solicit him on a daily basis trying to pitch him the dream of online internet success. He loves to ‘play’ with them on the phone and always asks:

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Well thank you very much!  I’m honored that you have added my web site link to your crappy directory!  I am especially honored that you think that my site content is valuable and that YOU think it would be a great idea for both parties if we exchanged links. 

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