I was strolling through the trade-show floor at Fall VON last week when I happened upon one company touting the following:
[Company X]’s standardization leadership and innovative solutions empower the quad-play development community with future proof solutions.
Yuck.
I suddenly had the urge to ask the company’s booth rep, “Sorry, what the [bleep] is it that you actually [...]

In just a couple of hours I’ll be phoning up a PR agency on the West Coast and could very well be saying yes to a pitch that found its way into our Monster e-mail inboxes earlier this week.
And here’s the thing: The pitch wasn’t very good.
For starters, we are addressed as “Hi Corporate” — [...]

How NOT to pitch a blogger and a podcaster.
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I received this e-mail message this morning to my comments@… New Comm Road inbox:
Hi,
My name is Chad and I wanted to drop you a line and let you know I really enjoy your podcast.
I am starting a new website to try to help people find new podcasts and help podcasters get bigger audiences.
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