How to get your domain blocked by our Barracuda
If you want me to block your email domain, it’s a pretty simple process:
If you want me to block your email domain, it’s a pretty simple process:
Send the same sales email to everybody at our firm (this mostly happens with partner email addresses). We get this all the time from recruiters.
Attach files to an intro email. If I don’t know you and you send an intro email with attachments — you’re blocked.
More than one person at your company sending the same email (get your sales territories straight).
Filling the first paragraph with a list of all the other firms “like us” using your firm’s services.
Starting the email with a list of all of the goals for your company: “XYZ endeavors to be the world leader in ….blah, blah, blah”. Why do I care about your company’s goals? That’s your problem, not my solution.
This one is somewhat unique to private equity. The vendor sends a “congratulations” email about a new deal that we closed and segues into a pitch for their services to “help” the new company. Information Security vendors are the main offenders in this category. As if we would buy a company in 2020 WITHOUT doing an information security audit.
Emails from an admin telling me that your executive will be in town next week and would like to meet with me. If the exec wants to meet with me, then the exec should be the one to send the email.
The assumptive close: “Jim, let’s get something on the calendar for tomorrow.”
Carpet-bombing. Sending an email, calling the office, calling my cell, and sending out a LinkedIn invite on the same day. Blocked.
All sales emails that are re-forwarded to “bump this to the top of your list” … “in case you missed it.”
Starting your email with something along the lines of “I was curious about ParkerGale’s blah blah blah.” Do you mean you want to sell me something? You should have just said that in the first place. Blocked.
Any email from private jet services gets blocked without exception.
Emails that have no text, just a giant image with a bunch of text.
Messages that include any of the following phrases: “Change Agent,” “Visionary,” or “Thought Leader.”
All word salad emails.