Business Networking Spam

If there's one thing worse than an unsolicited sales pitch sent via e-mail, it's when an organization you gave a bit of credibility to spams you with multiple copies of a sales pitch. Yesterday, I got a solicitation to participate in a "Referral Success Program" from someone named Richard Martin from the regional BNI office. Then I got three more copies of the same solicitation. The From: address was a "donotreply" account, and there was no reference anywhere else to an originating e-mail.

Then today, I get four copies of a different e-mail from BNI regional.

Mr. Martin, your personal bio is trying to convey the impression you're professional, but your office looks like amateur hour. I'd suggest you get the e-mail act together, or tech-savvy people are going to assign a lot less credibility to your efforts than you'd like.