Can I be a tiny bit cynical here and say BOLLOCKS! loudly?
This is your first and only post anywhere on B3ta despite joining 6 months ago. It just happens to be a blog that prominently features the brand name of a national company, precisely the sort that would go for this kind of viral marketing bollocks ( tinyurl.com/6go79sz ). If Gregg's were so unhappy with your site that they asked you to stop using their logo, chances are they would also have asked you not to feature their brand name at all.
Your blog is eesentially a long list of all the products Greggs do. The "reviews" of the products are with the exception of one, all positive.
The whole thing reads like a massive advert for Greggs, which it is.
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Sheriff John Bunnell https://twitter.com/thewonderfulgam, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 0:29,
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You are not the first person to accuse me of viral scumduggery.
As I said above, this blog is nothing more than a personal project.
I am somewhat amused, however, that anyone would seriously consider when you're proposing.
I like to imagine that somewhere in the North of England, a boardroom full of Greggs executives is deciding that the best way to advertise online isn't a Facebook page, isn't giving away vouchers, isn't street advertising or in-store promotions... No, the answer is to throw together a crudely designed blog in Wordpress and post a link on b3ta.
Never mind the fact that I quite often post negative reviews of their offerings (look past the front page). Never mind the message on the About page saying "I don't work for Greggs". Never mind the fact that a blog full of references to heart attacks and other pastry-induced health problems probably isn't something a company based around the sale of stodgy pies and cakes would want to be associated with.
So why am I still allowed to run my silly little blog? Why have Greggs' marketing people not told me to take the whole site down? My guess is that they're either media-savvy enough to know about things like the Streisand Effect, or they just find it mildly amusing that someone would do it in the first place.
Cynicism is healthy and something to be encouraged. But you're wrong.
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Not convinced myself
If I'm suspicous, its because things have got this far:
www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All
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Sheriff John Bunnell https://twitter.com/thewonderfulgam, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 11:40,
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I wasn't that interested in this topic at first
but now that you are drawing attention to it, I have taken a look.
I wonder mradrist, do YOU work for Greggs or their agents?
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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 14 Mar 2011, 11:59,
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No I DO NOT work for Greggs
but Paddy Power have a new and very clever ad, have you seen it?
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Sheriff John Bunnell https://twitter.com/thewonderfulgam, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 17:23,
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Everyone's a bit trigger happy on the spam front these days IMHO
Just because something could constitute promoting a product, doesn't necessarily mean that it directly is, or that the perpetrator is a spammer.
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 10:57,
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