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DIY Gary Vaynerchuk E-Mail Filter

dembot:

Have you ever emailed Gary Vaynerchuk? We exchange a fair amount of emails and every time I email him, I get this auto-responder back:

Hey, here’s a link that will explain everything!

http://tv.winelibrary.com/garyvs-inbox

Thank you
Gary Vaynerchuk

It turns out that link has never explained anything and I asked him to remove me from his diss-list, but I just kept getting them. 

So back in June, I decided to take matters into my own hands to resolve the issue and came up with a method that works quite nicely. So I thought would share my experiences here with others who may suffer from the same problem.

For a good way to manage your email with Gary V., just create a filter in your mail program to let Gary know how you would feel about seeing his auto emails (I say “would” as in past-tense because soon you wont be seeing them any more).

Below, you can see I have used Apple Mail to set up a complex filter that engages in a series of consecutive causal events. First and foremost the email must be clearly distinguished from other emails that may cary the same identity. I immediately noticed a pattern in the subject line: “Thanks for the email click the link”. 

Once the offensive, cold and brute email was identified, I called up another action to get the email immediately into the trash before considering another step. If all else fails, at least I have the peace of mind to know that the terrible and brash circumstance is now over.

While most people would probably not prefer this next step, I chose to hear the sound of a blow, just so I know.

Then I set up my mail filter to return an email back to Gary which I consider to be somewhat of a good samaritan type of measure so that Gary can truely understand the significance of his email auto-responder.



Kenyatta on the other hand has gone totally nuts:


Gary, if you’re watching this…. from yatta on Vimeo.

*Update:

Gary’s Out Of Office Reply from Rex Sorgatz on Vimeo.

**Update2:

Yo Gary V, if you’re watching this video…from Drew O.

Men's Wearhouse is a joke

I’m ordering a tux for a out of state wedding that I am going to.

Men’s Wearhouse has a program called The Perfect Fit through which they will store your size in an online database from the last wedding you took part in.  Great concept, right?  I hate having to go get fit every time I need to wear a tux.

I called them yesterday, and from the last wedding, my measurements are in there.  Great, so I call the store in Virginia, where the wedding is.

“Sir, you still have to come in, we don’t take credit card payments over the phone.  We need a deposit of $20.”

Are you kidding me?  Is this 2008?  Are you a national retailer?

So, you go through all this effort to create a program to store people’s measurements online so they don’t have to be fitted each time? And then you totally kill the value in it by not taking credit cards.  For a $20 deposit no less.

What a joke, a national retailer that doesn’t have a clue of the value they are providing then taking away.

// end rant