‘Dear Publicity Specialist’ and Other Things to Avoid

My  domain has received at least 9 identical emails from Geeks and Geekettes today, ostensibly from Jenni Peak and addressed to “Dear Publicity Specialist.” Not only did Jenni email me and my business partner but they also emailed the same identical email to our info@, jobs, and sales@ email addresses, too:

September 18, 2009

Geeks and Geekettes
2526 Mount Vernon Road, Suite 257
Dunwoody, GA 30338-3006

RE: Request to review technical books

Dear Publicity Specialist:

We are seeking programming, database and computer books to review for our Geeks and Geekettes web site. If you have any movies or audio books that you think our readers would be interested in, please send them to the address above.

The need by date is Thursday, Sept 24, 2009.

Thanks for your help in this request.

Jenni Peak

ps – When we publish a review of your item, we will send you an email message with the page link to the review.

If there is any compassion here it it comes from both “we have all been there” and the fact that this is not an outreach that was stewarded by a public affairs consultant or social media expert but by Jenni Peak herself, supposedly, who is the editor of a “geek” site.  There is one caveat: geeks should know better.  Geeks have a code of honor and geeks sort of know that this isn’t the best way to garner positive attention.

And, she is not a Geek.  The site is bullshit.  I don’t know what the site intends to be but Geeks & Geekettes is some sort of shady with Jenni Peak who looks to me to be more of a saucy stock photo from a girls-gone-wild ad than someone who is authentic and the reviews that she supposedly is doing on my behalf are actually not even on the sale site, they’re on nexusreviews.org.

What would you have done? How would you have engaged with me?  How would you have engaged with us here at Abraham Harrison LLC?  Have you been spammed as well?  What do you think “her” agenda is?  Link-farming? Affiliate marketing?

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