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I disagree with you. It matters enormously that people like me are available. Sure there are time wasters who’ll send me email. But I don’t care. Dealing with a
by jgrahamc 7y ago
I disagree with you. It matters enormously that people like me are available. Sure there are time wasters who’ll send me email. But I don’t care. Dealing with a small number of real customers doesn’t take a lot of my time and matters.
Everyone optimizes for the worst case. They think “if I give out my email I’ll get tons of useless email”. I can assure you I get 10x the crap sent to me on LinkedIn than via direct emails from customers or others.
- dkersten 7y agoThank you, this is a good attitude to have and I wish more company exec’s thought like this. We might have fewer post’s like OP’s story.
- gerdesj 7y agoMy little firm is nothing like the scale of CF but I do the same and have dropped my email address around a fair bit. I do get some pretty interesting missives that make it past the filters but signal to noise is very high in my inbox. I deleted my Linkedin account well over a year ago and I still get emails from them saying my profile is being viewed. Tossers.
- Aeolun 7y agoIf I ever have someones direct email I don’t think I would use it in any situation that I wouldn’t appreciate getting one myself.