Thanks for popping by and there’s no hating going on, don’t worry! (In fact, I’m thrilled that this post still gets traffic and comments two years on)

Maybe I’m softening a bit in my old age, but I agree, it’s just not worth getting angry about. However, if we rated success based on “not making the recipient angry”, we’d be aiming rather low. Instead, we should focus on enchanting the recipient with something brilliant.

So while I appreciate that it’s hard to always be top notch, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with aiming high every time – even if sometimes reality forces us to cut a few corners.

Thanks for stopping by!

I agree that PRs should all try and personalise their approaches and get to know the bloggers. I don’t promise to get it right every time (some times time is REALLY not on my side) but I can only ever try and spread the word that bloggers deserve some respect.

By the same token, I do agree with Ourman to a point. As a blogger, I get contacted all the time by people wanting to push their products/services. If I’m not interested, I don’t respond. I don’t get angry because people who I want to hear from also contact me using the same means and I can’t get an email system sophisticated enough to read my mind and send stuff I don’t want to my spam box.

It’s part of the blogger’s life and unless you learn to ignore the stuff you deem rubbish then you can alienate yourself from the blogging community if you don’t take this aspect into your stride.

I love that you called us out though – something I have been trying to explain to my bosses for a while now. Can you maybe give them a call and explain?

In broad terms I think I took it to read ‘extend some professional courtesy’, which I think it’s fair to say, is pretty much common sense. Still, there is undoubtedly a major gap between people that ‘get it’ in any capacity and those that clearly don’t.

I can’t promise that we’ll always get it right but I find that courtesy, transparency and honesty seem to count for a good deal.