This is gonna be a weird little post.

Useless too, I guess.

It is aimed at people who probably won’t even read this.

But just in case (and I really want to get it out of my system).

 

So…

 

This is about the prowlers.

The digital cold callers.

The assholes who shamelessly play the social media numbers game (and they can be both male and female).

The fresh connections on Facebook or LinkedIn who jump straight into your private message box with openings like ‘Hi, thanks for connecting, what is it you do?’

Really?

You have some mutual friends so you accepted the request, but they have no clue who you are and what you actually do.

Yet here they are.

It will take them two or three lines before dropping their ‘Program to earn a 6 figure income’, ‘System for unlimited high-end clients’, or whatever amazing bitcoin investment thing they’ve got going on.

They may consider themselves to be ‘Coaches of Coaches who Coach Coaches’ or ‘Social Media Funnel Experts’, they may try to flatter me with shiny platitudes (‘You’re obviously a changemaker in your profession!’) but they’re only there to sell you something.

Something you didn’t fucking ask for.

Which means they’re essentially invading your privacy.

And this, my fellow earthlings, frustrates THE SHIT out of me.

There are only a few things left in my life that make me aggressive, vindictive, and fairly dangerous, and this is one of them.

If I REALLY wanted what you have to sell, I’d have asked for it.

So if it’s your daily marketing practice to harass people you don’t know and you DO happen to read this: never ever pull this shit on me.

You don’t want me to unflatteringly mention you and your website and your email in a couple of my blogs, right?

 

Have a great weekend!

 

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