Please Go Away!
I am a big fan of LinkedIn. It is a great tool that helps my business; however, I want to ask for your help. If you are a marketing development specialist trying to sell me lists, web or outsourcing services, please go away. I am being inundated with requests.
I get ten-to-fifteen unsolicited requests a day. No, I am not looking for a list. And, while you may have great design services for web-based marketing, I am not interested. I strongly resent the use of LinkedIn for unsolicited campaigns. Instead, I report you to LinkedIn and I hope that they nuke you off the island.
LinkedIn is not Facebook or Twitter. I feel that each post should add content for the business user. Please do not ruin a good thing or waste my time. Please go away so that the rest of us can get on with business.
About Lora
Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. She is trying to redefine the industry analyst model to make it friendlier and more useful for supply chain leaders. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter, and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, at the Supply Chain Shaman blog, and for Forbes. When not writing or running her company, Lora is training for a triathlon, taking classes for her DBA degree in research, knitting and quilting for her new granddaughter, and doing tendu (s) and Dégagé (s) to dome her feet for pointe work at the ballet barre. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence.
Taking a break from Linkedin until 2025; but I'm an ERP observer, blogger and author. Please contact me if you think that I might have knowledge that is useful to you.
7 年Agreed, Lora. I have a list of companies that I will never, ever deal with or buy from. A good way for companies to get on that list is to waste my time by sending me spam.
Researcher
7 年There is a lot of cheesy sales/marketing out there. There Internet has made it easier to be a bad actor and not pay any consequences. Secondly, there are too many people in low-cost overseas countries that can be hired very inexpensively to bug people. I remember when I was coming up through college, globalization was pitched as 100% positive. If we take all the negative impacts of moving manufacturing to countries with no labor standards or environmental standards off the table for a minute, I now have people reaching out to me who do not speak or write my language that is hired by someone to get some "business development." That is another impact of globalization that is a massive negative. Why are people recruiting me for contracts who can't speak English? When did I make an agreement to these interactions. Another "benefit" to globalization.
Account Based Experience| MarTech & RevTech | Illuminating the Dark Funnel
8 年Could not agree more, well said. Then there is the irony of people spamming you to tell you how good their SEO and SEM skills are?
Digitizing and optimizing global supply chains
8 年Very timely. I was just grumbling to myself about the exact same thing. Thanks for being my spokesperson!
Sr Director, Demand Planning at Siemens Healthineers
8 年Nicely put Lora!