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Permalink Reply by Matt Milletto on October 14, 2008 at 1:17pm

I believe all exhibitors get a list of attendees with their email if it was provided. It's just funny when they say "thanks for coming to our booth" or when even our competitors will email about their programs ... I have gotten used to deleting any immediately if I am not interested.

- Matt

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Permalink Reply by Al Sterling on October 14, 2008 at 9:02pm

Colin....... Yes, and as for annoying, I can't really say it is. I attend a reasonable amount of trade shows each year and get unsolicited mail from all of them. That's the power of email-marketing I guess. I signed up for the recent Seattle show, but conflicting business travel put me into Tucson-Phoenix, and I couldn't change my travel plans. While I wasn't at the show, I'm still getting allot of "constant contact" generated emails. But that's OK. I go into my spam filter suspect file, and click on coffee emails just to see what familiar vendors are up to. Some of the emails have actually been informative. Just this AM I found out that Rancilio opened sales in Spain. (now there's something that could change my life.) Anyway, with the power of the spam filter, I'm in control. I can now willfully choose between information on enlarging a certain body part or seeing who has the "greenest" paper cups. Lucky me.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Spence on October 15, 2008 at 10:12am

As a vendor - I'll weigh in on this! We usually will send a one time email to people about our POS system. I try to make sure that those are informative and that they only go to the retail / owners on the list. It's tough on our side as we often hear from people who just did not make it through the whole show - so a quick email makes sense. We also will cold call from that list to introduce ourselves. If someone is not interested, it's easy to mark them off the list and make sure we don't bother them again.

I find that a lot of people just don't provide the email address if they don't want the email. I agree with Matt and Andrew in that the "thanks for visiting" messages bug me - they are pretty useless.

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Permalink Reply by Stickman on October 15, 2008 at 8:44pm

Yeah, Colin...Me too with the spam. I thought my being annoyed was just due to me becoming grumpier with age...So I'm glad you mentioned it!

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Permalink Reply by Stickman on October 15, 2008 at 8:49pm

Andrew Hetzel said:

I am getting grumpier with age; thought that it was just a realization that many youthful dreams will go unfilled. Maybe it's the junk mail!

Stickman said:

Yeah, Colin...Me too with the spam. I thought my being annoyed was just due to me becoming grumpier with age...So I'm glad you mentioned it!

Wait, stop...You're quantifying my dis-satisfaction. Just let me get old and not know why I'm getting grumpy; too depressing.

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Permalink Reply by Colin Newell on October 15, 2008 at 9:08pm

I was whining about being in my forties... to a guy approaching 70...
BIG MISTAKE!
He yelled over his pint of Irish Ale: "I would GIVE MY EYE TEETH to Be 40-X Again you ungrateful little whupper-snapper!!!"

Kid you not.
Living and loving my 40's more than ever.

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