This blog and thus my email address have somehow been added to Vocus PR’s spam program. Perhaps you’ve suffered the same fate. Maybe you’re anxious to get off their list.
Here are the critical pieces of information you need:
US Headquarters
4296 Forbes Boulevard
Lanham, MD 20706
Phone: 301.459.2590
Fax: 301.459.2827
Toll Free: 1.800.345.5572
e-mail: info@vocus.com
Don’t bother with the Vocus e-mail, although it might be helpful if you forward every piece of spam you receive to abuse@vocus.com for a while with VOCUS: REMOVE MY E-MAIL ADDRESS FROM YOUR DATABASE in the subject line.
One would think a “new media” public relations firm would be a bit more savvy than to set up a system where contact data for bloggers is arbitrarily collected and resold to various firms who then spam the bloggers. For instance, the latest press release I received was from a data sensor company:
BOURNE, MA, March 18, 2009 — Onset Computer Corporation (http://www.onsetcomp.com), the world’s leading supplier of data loggers, today announced a line of new Wind Sensor Adapters for connecting the company’s research-grade weather stations to RM Young, Inc.’s wind speed and direction sensors. The new adapters extend the range of wind monitoring applications that are possible with Onset weather stations, while broadening the company’s weather sensor product offerings.
“While we already offer a number of research-grade wind sensors, linking up with RM Young sensors opens up many new harsh-environment applications such as wind site evaluation, wind turbine performance monitoring, coastal weather monitoring, and air quality monitoring,” said Paul Gannett, product marketing manager for Onset. “Customers can now combine best-in-class data logging weather stations with some of the industry’s most robust wind speed and direction sensors.”
Hey guess what Vocus! I don’t blog about Wind Sensor Adapters. Why are you passing my data along to a company that sells a product I don’t cover? I blog about the military. I blog about guns and gun rights. I blog about transhumanism and technology. Come on.
It would be nice if I understood how the Vocus system works in more detail. Is there actually any focused targeting going on, or am I the victim of random PR, as others have suggested?