Thread: What is your definition of "spam" versus marketing?

Originally Posted by YesSheDoes!

"Yes, deal. Since you've studied internet marketing, you must have applied that to the real world and be selling a lot of whatever, right?"

So here's my question for you, Orange--how are your products doing?

Mine are selling well. So come to think of it, I don't really care what people call my site, as long as it's profitable and legal!

I'm not Orange, he'll has to answer for himself. (edit: I see he already did)
But, in Belgium, we have "TEL SELL", a television show that runs after normal broadcasting hours. It's a show that originates from the US, subtitled in Dutch. The only purpose is to sell inferior products that no one needs in the first place. The intonation of that show is one of droning enthusiasm, full of translucent superlatives. Very much like your website. Marketing specialists have stated that it is made that way, because it works. It sells their products.
I won't deny that I find that unsettling. It makes abuse of the inability that some people have with discerning between fabricated promo talk and reality. That it actually works, only makes it worse. The mere fact that "it makes money' doesn't make something ethically sound.
"Thou shall not lie" said the bible. "Thou shall not exaggerate" and "Thou shall not manipulate the masses", should have been included in that great book, all in my agnostic opinion.

Bart.