Was it WordPress? Somebody has put together blog names with the owner’s address and sold the list. I am now receiving junk mail addressed to Freethoughtandmetaphor.com. Sometimes the . is missing.
So far it’s about banking. I can offer my employees a business American Express card. I surely need a Square to “accept every way your customers want to pay. ” At first I wondered if the credit card company was behind this. But why would a banking company offer such a list to their competitors?
I don’t know how many blogs actually represent businesses. It’s only been a small percentage of what I’ve run across. To me this seems to be an example of corporate-thinking overreach and waste. Even the gremlins we picture lurking in our big social systems should have more sense than this!
I know a little about buying mailing lists from working for non-profits. Somebody made some money selling what looks like a very unproductive list. What made the buyers gullible? People who need business credit cards can afford real websites, not WordPress blogs.
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