Friday, 16th of November

16.11.2012

Slogan of the day: scavenging on Sandy's victims

- The fact that in Anglo-Saxon tradition calendar week starts with Sunday is somewhat frustrating. My Indian colleague requested me to send her full calendar of Ukrainian holidays.

- We decided to center our next-conference-invitation e-mail around that hole Sandy thing, and I was said to write the appropriate text. Doing a little research i discovered some interesting facts: like how actually big (in terms of casualties) was this hurricane after all (it was pretty big, also number of victims - 199 - was never near to that of Katrine in New Orlean), and how it was mysteriously connected to Obama's reelection on the second term of presidency (New-Jersey

governor, Romney's big supporter, turned to Obama after the disaster).

- I used SemRush just once, and now it's everywhere - every contextual generated on-site commercial is about registering pro or guru account.

- After all, it's a question of taste and our self confidence. Some % of viewers will be in favor, some % will think that we are cashing in. You either love it, or hate it - that's a very bold strategy, but seeing how they all wanted "something new", "something that will stand out", then why the hell not to try? After all, it's not like we try to use the grief of hundreds of people as a marketing tool to attract customers - maybe we do really aware and do really care? Maybe we don't care about our income (well, obviously we do, but that's not the point) and charity to those who are in need is our only goal? Why there is always someone in need, why didn't you support them before? I'll tell you - 'cause we were blind before Sandy came and were not even realizing how greedy and selfish we were. We were blind in the same way as New Jersey governor Chris Christie was blind and supported Romney before Sandy struck. It's our duty, our call now to realize how wrong we were and try to somehow change the situation for better. And that is the only reason why we are offering you to pre-order our next year training courses and by doing this donate some money to Sandy victims rehabilitation.

- Anyway, Sandy variant was rejected. Someone thought that it was too risky, and no one wanted to take those risks. Shame, 'cause i worked really hard to write this little hypocritical e-mail. It was my little masterpiece - but who cares if our possible financial stability is on stake?