Google Marketing!
What kind of retards is google employing from Delhi for marketing?! Firstly, why you would hire a marketing person from Delhi to call prospective customers in the south truly beats me. They're practically a different species. So I got a call from them this morning for a customer's website saying someone has created a new advertsing account for that website. So i explain to this sales rep that it is a customer's website and not our website.
He then goes on to ask what our business is and what my domain name is. I tell him we run a web hosting business called nettigritty and the website is nettigritty.com. His next question - "is it your own website". No, it's my neighbours website that I like calling my own. Why on earth would my business give out someone else's website when asked for our website. Of course it is my website you @#$#@$.
To try and cut this retardedness short, I go ahead and tell him I already have a google advertising account which I have been using for many years. His next question: have you signed up for this recently. @#$@#@$%#$. What part of many years sounds recent? He goes on and persists saying ok, we would like to offer you some initial credits on your account to get you started. If there was a slap-caller-silly button on my phone, I would have happily used it many times at this point. Alas.
I finally had to dumb it down and tell him all over again in many more words - existing account, many years, initial credits would not apply, thank you, bye! What a start to the week. Hello Monday morning!