Ken Magill Archive
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Stupid Debate Watch: A Lame Defense of Net Taxes
Joe Weisenthal over at Silicon Alley Insider last week published what superficially would seem to be a reasonably compelling argument for Internet sales taxes...
Stupid Political Watch: Umm … You’re Welcome … I Guess
Another week, another stupid political e-mail, this time from Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, thanking me for a donation I never made...
Stupid Bureaucrat Watch: College Threatens over Initials in E-mail
Santa Rosa Junior College in California is reportedly threatening legal action against students and faculty with private e-mail accounts that use the college’s initials in their construction...
Stupid PR Watch: She’s Hot, so Interview Her
I received last week one of the most unprofessional leads to a PR pitch ever to have appeared in my e-mail inbox...
Stupid Magilla Watch: Getting a Reader Smackdown
A piece I wrote and published in Direct’s Newsline and Magilla Marketing last week seriously pissed some readers off and they weren’t shy about expressing their irritation with me...
New Questionable List Firm, New Ties Emerge
Yet another questionable firm touting e-mail lists has emerged and evidence indicates it may be related to EmailAppenders, a firm several marketers have accused of ripping them off...
Stupid Political Watch: Announcing Hillary Spam!
Recently, I received an e-mail from New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the woman who took Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat when Clinton vacated it to be Secretary of State...
Permission Marketing 10 Years Later
Ten years ago this month, Seth Godin published what many marketers at the time considered to be one of the most cockamamie books they had ever read...
Smart Marketer Watch: Pizzeria Uno Gets it Right
Folks, I’m about the stir up the biggest controversy this newsletter has ever stoked...
Stupid PR Watch: ‘While We’re on the Subject…’
In an unusual move, Ford Motor Company last week put out a statement debunking a spam e-mail that has apparently been making the rounds ...
EmailAppenders Disappears Again
Less than a month after reappearing as eAppendersWeb.com, EmailAppenders has seemingly disappeared again...
ValueClick Wins One for Marketers
A Los Angeles court has thrown out a $45 million lawsuit against ad firm ValueClick and its subsidiaries, agreeing that the action filed under California state law was preempted by the Can Spam Act...
Four Email Appending Firms Using the Same P.O. Box
At least four e-mail appending and list-sales firms are claiming or have claimed the Houston P.O. box as their U.S. headquarters...
Stupid Marketer Watch: Doggie Designer Electroshock. Yay!
Add to the list of marketers unwisely sending customers e-mail marketing messages without permission Canine Fence, makers of the original Invisible Fence...
Stupid Media Watch: The Nigerian Super Scammer
An utterly confused article about Nigerian 419 fraud that ran in Barron’s last week led with an eye-popping stat: “An updated version of the Nigerian letter scam is making the rounds, and has already tricked 13,500 U.S. victims out of as much as $40.5 million"...
