tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139853.post111712329084072199..comments2024-01-06T19:54:24.263-08:00Comments on The Road Less Traveled: Contact Managementadamjhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13521028510530886615noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139853.post-1118243168747197862005-06-08T08:06:00.000-07:002005-06-08T08:06:00.000-07:00How valuable are contacts that you don't have time...How valuable are contacts that you don't have time to contact personally?<BR/><BR/>How important is it to have up-to-the-minute mailing addresses for thousands of contacts that you don't have time to contact anyway?<BR/><BR/>If the contacts are truly important to you (from a personal or business perspective), will sending them automated email messages help or hurt your relationships with them?adamjhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13521028510530886615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139853.post-1118232038409727922005-06-08T05:00:00.000-07:002005-06-08T05:00:00.000-07:00"If I want someone's updated contact information, ..."If I want someone's updated contact information, I will personally email them or even pick up the phone, ask them how they've been and how their family is doing, and let them know that I need their address to send them something by mail"<BR/><BR/>Yes, that's a nice thought if you have four contacts in your database. But if you have a contact database which containts thousands of contacts then you must use a automatic contact update service because there is no time to call everyone.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663833114300100375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139853.post-1118084709064859682005-06-06T12:05:00.000-07:002005-06-06T12:05:00.000-07:00I find the decent, spam-free yet efficient way to ...I find the decent, spam-free yet efficient way to use Plaxo is to sign up, dload it to Outlook, but kill the email-generating feature. You WILL still get the auto-update of those who are already Plaxo members, without annoying hundreds of others. <BR/><BR/>I've posted more on this in <A HREF="http://zoliblog.com/2005/06/getting-plaxoed_06.html" REL="nofollow">my blog</A>Zoli Erdoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14790831325192020429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139853.post-1117150151155090192005-05-26T16:29:00.000-07:002005-05-26T16:29:00.000-07:00Ren - Your experience is quite different than the ...Ren - Your experience is quite different than the one we're trying to provide. I'm sorry the way things went down, but if you'd like to chat, please drop me an e-mail.<BR/><BR/>Adam - I've posted a response to your post on <A HREF="http://blog.plaxoed.com/?p=81" REL="nofollow">my blog</A>. I wish Blogger had trackbacks!markjenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302354538070082594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139853.post-1117126288276762132005-05-26T09:51:00.000-07:002005-05-26T09:51:00.000-07:00I had a bad experience with Plaxo. Given this occ...I had a bad experience with Plaxo. Given this occurred about 1 year ago or so, things may have changed since then. <BR/><BR/>I had a friend who added me to his list with a request I also become a Plaxo member to be able to correspond with him. During the signup process it asks grueling questions during the setup process. I was OK with this initially because I was trying to setup something I thought I would use for a long time. There were several system questions, one of them relating to sending requests to all your email contacts. Since I was at work and had my outlook client contacts for business only I didn't want to send anything to them. I explicitly stated no, or whatever the option was to not sync or use my outlook contacts. I was all set and able to read my friends information and so forth on the Plaxo website.<BR/><BR/>A couple days later I start getting spammed back. I realize that my contacts, which included everyone in the company and some customers, were spammed by Plaxo even though I selected the option not to use contacts. This was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me. Here I am the IT Manager at a new company I started with and I spam everyone.<BR/><BR/>The interaction with Plaxo about what happened was even more disturbing. I sent an email request asking about the issue and why they would allow something like this to occur. The only answer I received back was that I did something wrong and that their system would never do that. I was furious, as furious as I can get for those that know me. I am positive I selected the correct option because I knew the repercussion would be.<BR/><BR/>In the end I uninstalled Plaxo and personally banned them.<BR/><BR/>-RenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com