Chicago trip, some details

I'll be staying in Oak Park. My hosts are being so kind as to make free to me the use of a car, so I can range a bit, if people want to meet for coffee, a meal, some other excursion.

Because of the possibility of local media coverage, I am arriving on Weds. Because of budget (mostly the group paying my way) I'll be leaving Monday morning. That means I have Friday, and Saturday wide open. Thursday is a little bit in the air, and I have someone from The National Religious Coalition Against Torture, who'd like to get together for a chat.

Again, for anyone who's in the area, it's Sunday, Sept. 13th, at 4:30, at the Frank Lloyd Wright, Unity Temple, 875 Lake St., Oak Park, Illinois.

More info here.

Silly Spammers

I got a piece of stupid spam today. Not the usual make this larger, or that smaller sort.

No, this was an SEO Company, offering to increase my website traffic.


Hi,

Would it be OK if I send you my company's pricing & trial proposal? I work with other attorneys and have nearly tripled their website traffic and helped them gain new business mainly through top Google positioning.

Let me know. Thanks.

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XXXX XXXXXX
Marketing Manager
QualifiedImpressions.com

1: I'm not an attorney.

2: Tripling my website traffic? Whoo-hoo. If she could tell me how much actual business that tripling actually generated (and maybe offer some baselines. Were they getting 30 hits a day, or 3,000, tripled.

3: I went to the website. In really big letters it tells me all of 250 customers have completed the trial program.

4: Google might not be the happiest to see that, "150 clients on the front page of Google, and counting.

5: This is coming to me from the marketing manager? Are they so small that the marketing manager needs to spam people? Perhaps they just call all the sales reps "marketing managers" to make it look as if someone high in the food chain is personally interested in me?

Sadly, I am sure it works well enough to get some people to sign on, but all it does for me is annoy me enough to write web-posts about how much they managed to look stupid to me.