BBPR (Band & Brown) email spamming for Jobsite.co.uk
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 18th, 2008 Published in: Humour, Marketing, Public Relations, SpamYeh that’s right. Only a few weeks after Jobsite’s SEO agency were spamming my forums, their PR agency (BBPR.com aka Band & Brown) are now spamming my inbox with emails promoting a new site launch! Lol, seriously!Â
Yes, that’s only a few weeks when Gary Robinson, Marketing Manager for Jobsite.co.uk came here and said, “[we] by no means condone spamming”. Yes, this is Jobsite.co.uk who on their own website say, “we don’t like spam and we don’t want to send you any either”.
I have to admit it though. Having one agency spam one of my sites in January and then another agency spam via another site in February is a little unfortunate! 
 I’m fairly certain they aren’t part of a concerted effort to personally spam me! If it was, it would go down in history as a piss poor marketing campaign seeing I’m self employed and don’t need the services of a job board lol!
Come on though guys – this is really lame!
It’s one thing to put a public gloss on what your company does – it’s another to outright state you aren’t spamming when you clearly are!
It wasn’t even particularly good spam. I’ve had more sohpisticated spam from bots on the forums! While the email was nicely written and not particularly offensive (the poor girl just emailed the wrong person), again it was making wild claims – “we regularly keep up to speed with your blog”.  Lol sorry, it’s just well optimised for a couple of random terms – there aren’t very many posts to keep up with!
I guess it wasn’t just dumb luck that BBPR emailed me – I am a SEO after all and if your PR agency uses Google SERPs to contact people, it was inevitable they would have found a site belonging to an SEO. So even if Jobsite did brief BBPR not to contact my other site, the chances area they would have found one of my other sites.
So Jobsite – please, please stop spamming me! Pretty please with a cherry on top.Â
I’m still waiting for an apology from your SEO agency – you can add your PR agency to the list as well.  In the meantime, I’ll mull over just how many of my network of job, business, marketing and news sites I want to cross post this on. 
Scott
Comments
Hi Gary,
I’ve sent you an email asking for your phone number. I’m responsible for the accidental SEO forum spamming which took place in January, on behalf of my client, Jobsite. Happy to talk to you about how this went wrong and the learnings that we have as a result.
Neither Jobsite nor their PR agency have done any wrong. If your career site doesn’t wish to benefit from their efforts and investment in promoting career and interview advice and services, then just let them know, and Jobsite will cease contacting you!
I’ve sent you my phone number so just give me a call!
Amanda.
Hi Amanda, thanks for dropping by.
Well there’s a few points to cover there. First of as I’m sure you already noticed, I’m Scott not Gary.
I’ll humour this series of comments for a little while, but you’ll have to excuse me if I don’t really take an email / comment posted from a Hotmail address entirely seriously right away – no offence intended you could be anyone. :p
With regards the email campaign, it would take quite a strech of the imagination to suggest that I would in some way benefit from promoting the new site launch. The email was from a PR agency – i.e. looking for free publicity. Correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s no benefit for anyone but your client there. Of course the site may be ultimately useful for people looking for jobs – that’s not in question at all. This is just commentary on the marketing campaigns carried out over the past few months.
But the point is that I (or anyone else for that matter), shouldn’t need to opt out from email marketing campaigns we didn’t sign up to.
Happy to discuss in private, but not via hotmail address or mobile number.
Cheers
Scott