Comments on: The Lazy Days of Twitter http://www.commansentence.com/the-lazy-days-of-twitter/ Creativity, New Media, and Stories Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:34:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ty Unglebower http://www.commansentence.com/the-lazy-days-of-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-7333 Ty Unglebower Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:41:42 +0000 http://www.commansentence.com/?p=3230#comment-7333 That's like cold calling to sell real estate, or putting up those tacky signs along the road that say, "Lose 50 pounds in 30 days, call..." There's an off chance that, by sheer volume of calls made, signs put up, (or people annoyed) you'll run into a few suckers. But I never understood how this method was cost effective, from a money or time standpoint. Those that agree to buy your product via this method will buy just about anything. Those that don't buy it end up hating you for being garbage, and will never have anything to do with you or your company. I never understood why people did this. That’s like cold calling to sell real estate, or putting up those tacky signs along the road that say, “Lose 50 pounds in 30 days, call…”

There’s an off chance that, by sheer volume of calls made, signs put up, (or people annoyed) you’ll run into a few suckers. But I never understood how this method was cost effective, from a money or time standpoint. Those that agree to buy your product via this method will buy just about anything. Those that don’t buy it end up hating you for being garbage, and will never have anything to do with you or your company.

I never understood why people did this.

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