But a phone number? Not so easily changed and I don’t like to talk to people trying to sell me things on the phone. With email, someone else can take care of that plus with good filter in place, almost doesn’t phase me. Spam phone calls waste much more of my time than spam email.

I have had the experience of late of having the sales person at two different stores actually object to me not giving them by phone number so that they could reference my account (after telling them I did not have nor want an account with them) It’s very easy for these people to store a large database with your name and email smack dab in the middle of it.

I have never shared my list in the 10+ years of marketing and never will. To me, it’s just not good business.

Data points,

Barbara

This was nothing more than an assumption coming across as a fact. As I said on Alice’s blog – anyone who doesn’t know any better would take it as a fact.

This really did bug me also. Well enough that I headed to their website hoping to find this in their “Ask Neil” section. Had I found it, I would have left my own comments about this and encouraged many others to do the very same.

I would have loved to have seen a lot of work at home moms – the ones who corner the small business market – let Neil and his readers know just how wrong he was.

I know that sounds as some attack mode but yeah, you really need to do research on something like that before boasting claims such as this one.