DISQUS

louisgray.com: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/pr-pitches-promise-to-trade-diggs-for.html

  • kristen kuhns · 6 months ago
    I think the typo in their email is appropriate "digg it as hell" :)
  • Brett · 6 months ago
    A PR person might also want to learn proper punctuation and sentence structure. Additionally, pitching without four letter works is also good form.

    "If the review is great we will digg it as hell"

    Sentences like this make a pitch look like it was generated from a button-mashing factory in some remote part of the world.
  • adorno · 6 months ago
    Its begun.

    I just hope you don't become as intolerable as Scoble.
  • Soso Sazesh · 6 months ago
    The scary part is that not all bloggers have your mindset (or lack of commercialization), and inevitably this type of PR will become more common.
  • Yuvi Panda · 6 months ago
    I'm pretty sure that someone somewhere accepted this offer :(
  • benin · 6 months ago
    That is quite interesting, Louis. OMG, it is these types of things that give our industry such a bad wrap.

    This type of behavior symbolizes the type of gold rush-something for nothing mentality that has become so common place within certain circles of the web lately. Thanks for bringing it to light.
  • guruvan (Rob Nelson) · 6 months ago
    This has to be one of the lamest practices I've seen. I'm not sure which is worse, offering to pay you for a good review, of this. This seems more underhanded.
  • Martin Bryant · 6 months ago
    I've been offered money to review something before. In the end I spent so long thinking about whether or not it was a good idea that I missed the deadline for it. My idea was, rather than spam up my regular blog feed at 14sandwiches with a sponsored post, I'd create a separate page on my blog for the (clearly marked) advertorial. That way people can read it if they like without having it forced on them. Does that seem like a good solution? I'd certainly never go down the Diggs route - very underhand.
  • patrickj · 6 months ago
    I got a couple of these as well. Tossers ...