Don’t waste my bandwidth

I got spammed recently by some knuckleheads who curiously must have thought I’d somehow be interested in their cheesy and unsolicited “newsletter”. The email consisted of a whopping 415Kb embedded JPEG image and a short text intro:

“It’s good to be back on deck and I hope your Christmas and New Year was restful. I have enclosed the latest newsletter for you to have a look at. Please let me know if anything is of interest.”

Apart from the fact that these nincompoops have obviously crossed the email etiquette boundaries, they have also made a couple of dumb assumptions:

• that I’m interested in buying a house
• that I’m looking in the area they operate in

Here’s a tip for all the halfwits who think they can drum up business by sending me ridiculocusly large emails with embedded images:

Show me some respect and don’t waste my bandwidth without my permission. If you really insist on using some lame desktop publishing software to create your pompous and contemptuous brochure, then at least have the decency to send me a plain text URL which points to wherever you’ve put it. I know how to cut and paste your link into my browser, and I’ll do so, if and when I feel like it.

Otherwise, just stay the @#$% out of my inbox. Ok?

Posted in Business, Email, Marketing, Rants, Tips by Ivan