Congratulations Slideshare for a new member from Afghanistan
by Volker Weber
I had to download a presentation about Cloud Computing from Slideshare yesterday, which does not work without a sign-up. Which in turn requires a valid mail address.
Today I received my first Slideshare spam. Based on what I downloaded yesterday they recommended:
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So I went to their site to stop this nonsense. When I wanted to set up my preferences to "Under no circumstances send any mail", I had to complete my profile with a couple of mandatory fields first. And thus Slideshare now has a new member in Afghanistan.
To other marketing people around the world: my profile is as follows. I am a grandma with a PhD from said country, an annual income of less than $10,000, a purchasing budget of more than a billion. Per year. My company has more than 100,000 employees. And you never heard of it.
Comments
Hey, we could set up a whole (nonsense-)company like that. If you tell me the company name, I can set up an account with even more nonsens. Could be fun, if enough people take part.
Sounds like a reasonable profile to me.
I guess the company name is Acme. I also work there sometimes. ;-)
Is that where I should send my sales folks? Thank you for letting me use social media for lead-gen.
LOL
Wenn die eigene Fantasie nicht weiterhilft, dann hilft Fakenamegenerator bei der Identitätsfindung.
