Using Sex to Increase Conference Attendance
I subscribe to quite a few systems engineering and information management professional journals which are usually pretty informative and generally fun to read. I may be canceling my free subscriptions though. About two weeks ago, I received a call from a lady at the publishing firm who produces these trade journals asking me a few (but not personal or confidential) questions about how I use the magazines. It only took a few minutes and since I believe in the trade journal model, I agreed to give her three minutes of my time.
The tone of her voice was disconcerting though. It was more flirty than professional and in just after 60 seconds, she seemed WAY too friendly for me. For a second, I almost suspected a social engineering hack was about to commence. At the beginning of the conversation, she sent me a generic e-mail that included a picture of her in her signature. I didn't think it was a big deal. I answered the very basic questions and hung up.
Two days later, I started receiving voice mails from her that sounded like someone who worked at a phone sex operation was desperately trying to reach me. I should have recorded them in a .wav file to post here but I forgot. The messages were always like "hey, you! this is Tracey from CMP and I just wanted to see how things were going in your life. Gimme a call when you get a sec and make sure you check your snail mail, I sent you something that I'm sure you'll like. giggle, giggle, giggle. Bye!" *D (delete message an Avaya voice mail). Whatever. She left me 4-5 of those voice mails which I just ignored and I had no idea what they were about.
Until I received this:
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WTF? CMP has totally resigned to use sex to increase attendance at stupid IT conferences! I wonder how many people thought this woman was actually coming on to them, thinking that if they attend this conference they'll have a chance with her. I bet the "real" Tracey looks nothing like that. I'm sure it's a calculated effort since it's no secret that us computer geeks have a hard time a female to talk to us socially let alone getting laid. How pathetic (CMP, not the computer geeks). I don't even like blondes anyway.
I bought 23 tickets to the conference.
February 17th, 2010 - 18:04
that is so cute and funny too i wonder were they got that idea i wish i was that creative