Two sides of Email: the nasty and the pleasant…

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Today, I got two rather different emails. I’ll include them both. In both of them, the similarities are quite obvious: mostly they are both likely automatically generated, and sent to hundreds or thousands of recipients.

The pleasant (Ad network name changed):

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for applying to join the **** Advertisement Network. We have reviewed https://www.investorblogger.com and appreciate the time and effort you have invested to create a quality environment for your visitors. However, we are unable to approve your site as a publisher on our network at this time. We very much appreciate your interest in our company and wish you best of luck in your endeavors.

Sincerely,

***

Nicely done, thanks, guys. I’d like to be refused like that more often, wouldn’t you?

The nasty (posted as received, minus address): 

THE COCA COLA COMPANY, etc.

THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annualfinal draws held on
(25th of January 2007)  by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email  was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £1000,000.00{One million Great Britain Pounds} each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2007 PROMO.
However the results were released today 30th of January 2007 and  your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2007) and ballot number (BT:12052007/20)
The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
To begin the claim  processing of your prize you are to contact the fiduciary agent as stated below:

Mr William Carpenter
22 Garden Close, Stamford,
Lincs,PE9 2YP,London
United Kingdom.
Email:winning_claimsagent001@yahoo.co.uk

The second one is so obviously fake, I can’t believe any one would fall for it. The spelling, punctuation, formatting (careless), and the Yahoo! email address. Just totally tacky.

Warren Buffett: What’s your email address?

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I’ve been asked this interesting question: “If you could get hold of one email address, whose would it be and what would you send them a message about?”

If I could get hold of one email address, I’d like to get Warren Buffett’s. As an investor, you have to admire his tremendous investing and management style, not to mention his huge record of returns for Berkshire-Hathaway since he took over nearly 40 years ago.

WikiPedia writes of his approach as:

  1. Generals: undervalued securities that possess margin of safety and meet expected return-to-risk characteristics
  2. Arbitrages: company events that are not related to broader market changes, such as mergers and acquisitions, liquidation, etc.
  3. Controls: build sizeable holdings, ally with other shareholders or employ proxies to effect changes in companies

So if I could email him, I’d interview him about the above. I’d be interested to look at the way he does research into these three aspects. A large part of his style of investing is his ability to see value where the general investor does not, so I’d be inclined to ask him how he finds such value, how he manages his team of managers, and what his defnition of ‘margin of safety’ is.

Perhaps his most notable aspect of his success must be: The key to successful management has to be knowing what you can do, as well as what you can’t. For example, email marketing and the whole internet thing is an area of business that he himself has avoided. However, even if he didn’t have much clue about it, I’m sure that he’d employ others who did. As such, he really stays out of day to day management, preferring the original owners, management and staff at the companies he buys to stay in place.

Whose email address would you like? Why? I’m going to tag another blog, and see their answer… My chosen blog: JohnChow‘s.

In the meantime, what’s your reply? Reply in the comments or register for an account!

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Posting Schedule Starts February 1st, 2007.

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Well, tomorrow I’m starting my posting schedule as I arranged. This does

Monday: Cash Flow Ideas + 500 Article In-depth Reviews

Tuesday: Great Plugins

Wednesday:Good Blogs I’ve found

Thursday: Great Tips for your Blog

Friday: Quotation + How I got here-Article

Saturday+Sunday: Weekend Reading

Some of the Series I’m planning:

The first series will be in ten parts posted weekly on the issue of how to get started with your blogging in ten easy lessons.

The second series will look at developing your blogs options for income generation. This will also be a ten part series and will commence once the first series is completed.

The third series will list plugins, one-by-one, as seen from the User’s perspective. We will evaluate how easy they are to install, setup and use. This will be an unlimited series.

I’m also planning to have two Articles Categories: One will be my own articles, ie. more than 500-1000 words. The Second Category will be for Articles that can be reposted from the Net. I’m only hoping to find the best articles for readers, especially on things I think InvestorBloggers should know about but I can’t write myself.

The Last Series will be an ongoing series of posts detailing my own Personal Struggle to develop Streams of Income other than my job.