Comments on: How to Not Earn My Business http://darbydarnit.com/marketing/how-not-to-earn-my-business The darbyDARNIT blog highlights innovative brand marketing, digital strategy, and creative storytelling (the snarkiness comes free) Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jaime http://darbydarnit.com/marketing/how-not-to-earn-my-business/comment-page-1#comment-382 Jaime Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:45:00 +0000 http://darbydarnit.com/?p=1196#comment-382 So my apologies to you, Mr. Darby. You lnow your stuff! So my apologies to you, Mr. Darby. You lnow your stuff!

]]> By: Jaime http://darbydarnit.com/marketing/how-not-to-earn-my-business/comment-page-1#comment-381 Jaime Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:44:00 +0000 http://darbydarnit.com/?p=1196#comment-381 I gotta admit, Petri, i read the post and thought "entertaining, but c'mon isnt this just a PR professional getting getting in a twist about nothing?" UNTIL TODAY when it happened to me. I got an email notification that someone followed me on twitter @doublerock2011. The new follower is actually someone i tried to connect with on a real estate investment social page a while back. No response. When i saw his follow, i figured he just wasn't active on that board and that he preferred using twitter. I should have left it at that. Instead, i followed him back and messaged, "thanks for the follow. How did you find us?" He replied, "i dont know. You follow someone i follow???" I gotta admit, Petri, i read the post and thought “entertaining, but c’mon isnt this just a PR professional getting getting in a twist about nothing?” UNTIL TODAY when it happened to me.

I got an email notification that someone followed me on twitter @doublerock2011. The new follower is actually someone i tried to connect with on a real estate investment social page a while back. No response.

When i saw his follow, i figured he just wasn’t active on that board and that he preferred using twitter. I should have left it at that.

Instead, i followed him back and messaged, “thanks for the follow. How did you find us?”

He replied, “i dont know. You follow someone i follow???”

]]> By: Petri Darby http://darbydarnit.com/marketing/how-not-to-earn-my-business/comment-page-1#comment-375 Petri Darby Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:41:00 +0000 http://darbydarnit.com/?p=1196#comment-375 Thanks Eddy. She responded "I apologize for any inconvenience my welcome email may have caused you." As if the email "may have caused" the problem, rather than her. Had she read my previous post, particularly the part about what I learned about apologizing from my stint as a waiter, she might have instead just owned that she made a mistake, apologized for specific actions, and indicated how she planned to remedy it going forward, she might have approached that differently too. C'mon, why do people act differently toward other people just because it's during work hours. You're still dealing with people, people. Here is my prior post:  http://darbydarnit.com/uncategorized/how-a-business-gives-you-the-shirt-off-their-back  Thanks Eddy. She responded “I apologize for any inconvenience my welcome email may have caused you.” As if the email “may have caused” the problem, rather than her. Had she read my previous post, particularly the part about what I learned about apologizing from my stint as a waiter, she might have instead just owned that she made a mistake, apologized for specific actions, and indicated how she planned to remedy it going forward, she might have approached that differently too. C’mon, why do people act differently toward other people just because it’s during work hours. You’re still dealing with people, people. Here is my prior post: 

http://darbydarnit.com/uncategorized/how-a-business-gives-you-the-shirt-off-their-back 

]]> By: Eddy Badrina http://darbydarnit.com/marketing/how-not-to-earn-my-business/comment-page-1#comment-374 Eddy Badrina Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:09:00 +0000 http://darbydarnit.com/?p=1196#comment-374 Word up on that one. Good post, Petri. Word up on that one. Good post, Petri.

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