I received this piece of spam today and found it rather hillarious. Note that I’ve removed the URLs in order to avoid advertising for this putz.
Dear Jeffrey A. Croft
There are over 41,232,181 active domains as it stands today. Each day 41,129 domains are added to the tally waiting to be designed. This is the best time in history to be a professional Web Designer!
No wonder people de-value design.
Here’s the remainder of the spam message, if you’re interested.
Web designing as a career offers a gold mine of opportunities with limited skills and negligible financial investment on your side. Anybody with basic knowledge of photo editing & web authoring software can now build a professional web site in less than 48 hours. ITS EASY to start web designing business when you know what to learn & where to look!
Visit : (URL REMOVED) for more information.
JUST RELEASED: “Be a web designer course”
Present it to dear one, Keep it in your library to train your staff / team members or Update your knowledge with the help of “Be a web designer course”
With over 1500 detailed steps, 18 chapters and 90 sections broken down into 3 steps approach this course gives you… Step-by-step advice you can use to start your very own web designing business by spending as little as 2 hours a day.
Visit (URL REMOVED) for more information.
Using easy-to-follow steps, with practice session at the end of the course, you will be able to develop model web site in FLASH & HTML with the SAME tested and proven strategies professional web designing company apply to fulfill their project.
You can download FREE Sample Chapter to get a first hand experience of the user-friendly course. Check the pleasant voice over that guide you through the steps. Check the quick-n-easy navigation. Check the menus and lastly, the exercise session to evaluate your self. Seeing is believing! Try it for yourself. This sample chapter will give you a clear picture on the high standard of our tutorials.
In addition to excellent user-friendly training, Be a Web Designer Course offers you a rich library of ready-made graphics you need to start your own web designing studio including: 20 website templates, 100 Buttons, 100 Bullets, 100 Web Icons & 100 Animated Banners.
Visit (URL REMOVED) for more information.
With Regards,
(CONTACT INFO REMOVED)
001 // Brian Ford // 08.26.2004 // 10:20 AM
Did that email start off like this:
From: Grandma Ford To: jcroft@isdlab.com Subject: FWD: Web Design Made Easy
I thought this might help you boys and your business. I just think you could be doing more, and this has a free chapter. I don’t think your’e doing anything to help get more business.
Love,
Grandma
(Though, she’d probably be right… when ARE we going to get started!)