Why You Shouldn’t Be Like Joel Comm

This is just dumb.  Somehow I got on one of Joel Comm’s mailing lists.  Fine, I’m on a million of them anyway, sometimes I read, sometimes not.  Today I read one from him, which references a website of his.  I looked at the website and noticed a really dumb error on the website.  An error that should induce a Home Simpson ‘D’oh’ from anyone who looked at it.

So, being the nice guy that I am, I jotted off a quick email to him about it.  Naturally, used the email that had sent the newsletter from.  Of course a smart marketer would want to receive emails from his customers, right?

Nope.

Here’s what I got moments later.

 Thank you for your email.

I’m sorry, but email sent to this address is not read by a human.  In order to contact us with support issues, please visit our help desk at:

http://www.thehelpdesk.us

Anything that requires a reply should be submitted at the help desk.

However, If you have non-urgent questions or joint venture requests specifically for Joel, you may submit them at:

http://www.askjoelcomm.com

Due to the number of inquiries, it is physically impossible for Joel to reply to all of them, but they do get read on a weekly basis.

To your success!

The InfoMedia, Inc. Staff

Seriously, you can’t make up stuff like that.