How not to contact potential customers for business development/sales?

Submitted by kai on Thu, 2009-12-10 18:43. ::

Recently, there have been a couple of companies(primarily based in China) emailing me about having existing Android mobile apps list on their app stores.

Their proposals are that I submit free apps to their app stores, they'd localize them for free and distribute to millions of users so that I can make a lot of money. Sounds fishy? There are also to other fishy things:

  • Use CC instead of BCC in email - so everyone knows who else is being contacted(or spammed).
  • Claim to represent a legit and well-known company, but use an Gmail address to send the email. This is so unprofessional. Then I emailed back and asked why they'd use Gmail. Their response is that they have problems with their email system. Oh, good. If you can't ensure that your corporate email to work properly, how am I going to trust your app store?
  • Because I can read Chinese, I can see that the email sender's name is clearly different from what's in the email signature. So who really emailed me?

One piece of advise: be professional

Tags: email android professionalism sales

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This is so typical of the
Submitted by CT (not verified) on Sun, 2010-01-17 15:13.

This is so typical of the lack of professionalism (or you could call it common sense) among many Chinese IT companies and scammers. A big problem is their inability to think outside the box or to empathize with the customer experience. Hopeless to advise them to be professional - they just don't get it, or they would have done it. Another problem is the quality of the people they tend to hire. Often they are new graduates with no customer interaction, so they need micromanaging. Which negates the benefit of cheap labor.

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