stop spamming me…
DEC 1, 2020
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers did a song in 1987 called “Jammin’ Me” … it was on the Heartbreakers album “Let Me Up, I’ve Had Enough…”
While the song is 33 years old now… it’s timeless… it’s about the overwhelming nature of the non-stop onslaught of pure and undiluted media information that flows our way… it’s really overwhelming… And it still goes on. It was before the days of email… and Facebook… my guess is that today it would be “Spammin’ Me”… (Bob Dylan actually helped write the lyrics with Tom Petty…)
Yeah but Keith/Madison, you have a radio station and you have radio ads…
Yes… that is correct… because my radio station provides MUSIC 24 hours a day 7 days per week and it’s totally free… And I limit the number of commercials to 4 per break, twice per hour. You are going to get 25 minutes between the interruption. I was on YouTube Today watching Rick Beato who does some incredible stories about “What makes a Song Great”… and every three minutes… I was interrupted for an ad by 1) NETFLIX , 2) THAT SILICONE JAW EXERCISER and 3) How to FLUSH out my Bowels Perfectly Every Morning… and that is YOUTUBE…
FACEBOOK is out of control.
Don’t get me wrong… I love Facebook… it’s great… but when I sign up to follow a business… it doesn’t mean that I want to see the same ad showing up in my Facebook News Feed or on my page… Please… That’s not how it should be done… If you are going to make a post, can you please make it worthwhile.
Technically SPAM is unsolicited email… So since you signed up to get updated about things… you are officially “requesting information/granting permission” for people to contact you…
So how should it be done?
Tell me a story… Give me some content… Tell me something that is entertaining or useful… Like my little history about the origin of this song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers… or the link to Rick Beatto…
I don’t really need to see another picture of your hamburger and it’s price…. Marketers who do this should just straight up buy the ad from Facebook… That way it’s not coming up in my feed… If you are going to send me something, tell me what kind of cheese you use… what beer would go great with that burger, that you massaged the cow for an hour before it volunteered to become your burger… anything… but please… “Stop Spammin’ Me”…