http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/22/the-piss-off-your-prospects-enough-that-they-sign-up-sales-model/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/22/the-piss-off-your-prospects-enough-that-they-sign-up-sales-model/comment-page-1/#comment-720 W.B. McNamara Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:28:33 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=249#comment-720 I visited the <a href="https://www.plaxo.com/opt_out" rel="nofollow">Plaxo opt out page</a> a year or so ago, and haven't had a moment's concern about the decision. I visited the Plaxo opt out page a year or so ago, and haven’t had a moment’s concern about the decision.

]]> http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/22/the-piss-off-your-prospects-enough-that-they-sign-up-sales-model/comment-page-1/#comment-676 TechCrunch en français » Plaxo désormais un peu moins méchant Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:20:35 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=249#comment-676 [...] Jeff Nolan et bien d’autres ont résolu le problème en filtrant les mails issus de Plaxo dans le dossier Spam. Cette procédure n’est pas des plus simples et Plaxo nous indique que le meilleur moyen d’éviter ce spam est de devenir membre de Plaxo. Si vous rejoignez Plaxo, vous pouvez renseigner votre fiche d’informations une fois pour toute et choisir qui sont les membres qui peuvent y accéder. Dès lors toutes les mises à jour sont traitées par Plaxo de manière à ne plus recevoir d’emails d’alerte. [...] [...] Jeff Nolan et bien d’autres ont résolu le problème en filtrant les mails issus de Plaxo dans le dossier Spam. Cette procédure n’est pas des plus simples et Plaxo nous indique que le meilleur moyen d’éviter ce spam est de devenir membre de Plaxo. Si vous rejoignez Plaxo, vous pouvez renseigner votre fiche d’informations une fois pour toute et choisir qui sont les membres qui peuvent y accéder. Dès lors toutes les mises à jour sont traitées par Plaxo de manière à ne plus recevoir d’emails d’alerte. [...]

]]> http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/22/the-piss-off-your-prospects-enough-that-they-sign-up-sales-model/comment-page-1/#comment-665 TechCrunch » Plaxo: Now With Less Evil Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:11:43 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=249#comment-665 [...] When you sign up for Plaxo, they make it misleadingly easy to spam your entire address book with your contact information and a Plaxo advertisement. And any updates they do are likely to be sent to their entire address book as well. As millions of people unwittingly do this, we, the non Plaxo users, are hit with a massive aggregate cost: dealing with all of this spam. Jeff Nolan and many others have dealt with Plaxo by putting it in their spam filter. I’ve gone through their multi step (and very hard to find) process for removing each of my five emails from their system (the process includes replying to yet another email from them to prove you own the account - how nice). [...] [...] When you sign up for Plaxo, they make it misleadingly easy to spam your entire address book with your contact information and a Plaxo advertisement. And any updates they do are likely to be sent to their entire address book as well. As millions of people unwittingly do this, we, the non Plaxo users, are hit with a massive aggregate cost: dealing with all of this spam. Jeff Nolan and many others have dealt with Plaxo by putting it in their spam filter. I’ve gone through their multi step (and very hard to find) process for removing each of my five emails from their system (the process includes replying to yet another email from them to prove you own the account – how nice). [...]

]]> http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/22/the-piss-off-your-prospects-enough-that-they-sign-up-sales-model/comment-page-1/#comment-655 Zoli Erdos Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:36:48 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=249#comment-655 Plaxo is a great tool if we all use it the “<a href="http://www.zoliblog.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/6/975578.html" rel="nofollow">decent” way: auto-updates</a> between existing members, NOT sending out mass emails. Plaxo is a great tool if we all use it the “decent” way: auto-updates between existing members, NOT sending out mass emails.

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