{"id":99284,"date":"2012-07-25T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartifb.com\/?p=99284"},"modified":"2024-02-14T23:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T07:18:03","slug":"blogger-manners-must-responding-to-unwanted-pitches-invites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartifb.com\/blogger-manners-must-responding-to-unwanted-pitches-invites\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Manners Must: Responding To Unwanted Pitches & Invites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just yesterday I received an email pitch from a small company that sells matching apparel specifically for babies and dogs. For some, like mothers or pet-owners (and most especially those who are both) this is a cute, novel concept. For a single style blogger in Manhattan who can't keep a goldfish alive – the pitch didn't resonate.<\/p>\n
When this happens to bloggers our gut reaction is usually “Delete!” with a self-satisfied click and eye-roll as if to say, “How dare this person email me when clearly they have no idea what my blog is actually about.”<\/p>\n
Fair enough, but before you trash that email and move onto the next, consider an alternative strategy. Deleting an unwanted email only gets you so far in tackling your overflowing inbox. You'll probably get another next week, and the week after that…<\/p>\n
For many reasons, you, your blog and<\/em> your inbox can benefit from a quick, polite response (or a tactful unsubscribe).<\/p>\n For the record, I replied to the company with the dog and baby apparel, told them politely that I had neither a dog nor a baby, but thank you for thinking of me. They responded immediately with a brief apology and thanked me for letting them know. Done and done. And hey – if I ever have a bun in the oven and a little Fifi on my lap – I'll still have a contact when I want to get them matching onesies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just yesterday I received an email pitch from a small company that sells matching apparel specifically for babies and dogs. For some, like mothers or pet-owners (and most especially those who are both) this is a cute, novel concept. For a single style blogger in Manhattan who can’t keep a goldfish alive – the pitch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7767],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-writing"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy reply<\/h4>\n
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