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Out of Office Auto Replies

Started by fredwilson · 1 year ago

I am getting a ton of them from my feedblitz emails (the service that emails out links to my posts every day).



They made me think about turning them on for my email address too



But funny enough between my blog post and twitters about being away, and everyone being on vacation, it seems uneccesary.

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  • Louis Gray

    1 year ago

    I haven't seen my Feedblitz be all that successful, and have considered even turning it off, to point people to RSS online. Sounds like you still like the service. What's the % of your subscribers who use Feedblitz of the total? Is it going up, or stagnant?
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  • fredwilson

    1 year ago

    It depends on how many subs I really have. FeedBurner says 80k. But so many
    of those are not active, that its a totally useless number. I'd guess I have
    more like 20k to 30k subs. And I have about 2k Feedblitz subs. So it's
    something like 10% of my subs. But it's a very active 10% because it's
    delivered to the inbox.

    Fred
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  • Louis Gray

    1 year ago

    Thanks for your comments, Fred. I'd removed the Feedblitz link from my blog, but it's up again, and we'll see if people are out there who prefer e-mail to online feed readers. I also traded e-mails with the company's founder and CEO, Phil Hollows. We'll watch this closely.
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  • ceonyc

    1 year ago

    Who's ever really out of the office anyway? As if GOOG could e-mail you on Christmas Day wanting to buy your company and you'd say, "Oh, sorry, I'm out of the office until Jan 2., could I get back to you then?"

    I don't want to do business with anyone who is ever "Out of the Office."
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  • fredwilson

    1 year ago

    That's a funny thought charlie!
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  • ceonyc

    1 year ago

    Look at you...you couldn't be geographically further from the office and you're still responding.
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  • James

    1 year ago

    OOO Replys are one of the more ridiculous communiques of modern business. In today's 24-hr mobile business world aren't we always working when out of the office? Even though people turn these on, they still respond to email. So what exactly does being OOO mean?
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  • fredwilson

    1 year ago

    It means I am not going to respond to stuff unless its important and even
    then I might not respond as quickly as normal

    At least that's what it would mean if I turned mine on

    Fred
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  • jer979

    1 year ago

    You could take a page out of Andy Sernovitz's OOF playbook. That's what I do now...Godin might call it "remarkable"

    http://jer979.blogspot.com/2006/12/daring-to-be...
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