Comments on: A Peek at My Hate Mail and Why Women Fail

By: How the Personal Branding Illuminati Use Twitter, Part 2: Trunk, Dunford, Kawasaki « Ten K One Writing

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:43:00 +0000

[...] Oh, Naomi Dunford. Where to start? Personal branding in marketing is her element. In fact, she practically is an element. Dunfordium-121, which, if you stand next to it, will strengthen your nitty-gritty knowledge of social media and make you more prone to using the f-word. As you would expect, her Twitter feed is occasionally offensive and usually consists of multiple conversations she’s having with other people. It’s littered with @ replies, just like you would expect from a foulmouthed social butterfly. Despite the expectorations, Naomi’s use of her Twitter feed is actually very businesslike; considering her business does indeed commonly allude to threesomes and the scuzzier side of of the bright shiny new social marketing coin. [...]

By: Carrie Tallman

Carrie Tallman — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:51:21 +0000

Hi,
Also my first time here. Loved your honesty and excellent points. Interestingly, I felt a sting after reading your blog. Thing is, I know I take lots of people’s shit, don’t speak up, and then my anger grows and grows. I hate that I do that. I am working on not doing that anymore. But after years of doing it, it’s not easy to just turn off.

You pointing out that it sucks that we females don’t speak up doesn’t exactly help me. What would be more helpful is to talk about how to do something different. Okay, progress, I’m being honest.

Carrie

By: Well Behaved Woman CAN Make History « Work Her Way

Well Behaved Woman CAN Make History « Work Her Way — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:15:27 +0000

[...] couple of weeks ago, Naomi wrote about an email she received from a woman regarding a marketing email she’d sent out. And it got me to [...]

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:43:06 +0000

1st time here and loved this! Really refreshing and I can see the truth in what you say here, great to find such an honest and entertaining blog! Subscribed.
Jen

By: Review: IttyBiz Marketing 101 — inspirIT

Review: IttyBiz Marketing 101 — inspirIT — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:31:32 +0000

[...] Naomi Dunford is scuzzy and disingenuous. [...]

By: Janice Cartier

Janice Cartier — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:28:19 +0000

Male-female brain differences >>> http://www.doctorhugo.org/brain4.html

;)

By: Debra Eve

Debra Eve — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:31:41 +0000

After lurking here a couple months, this one got me. Here’s why I think the very angry woman missed the point:

I want to have a successful ittybiz and make oodles of money. I want to do this so me and my family and loved ones can be financially secure and do cool stuff together. I also want to have a successful ittybiz and makes oodles of money so I can do some good in the world. And I want it all without selling my soul.

So Naomi comes along and says, I want to do something really fabulous for someone I love, so I need to make some money. Why else are we in business, but for this?

I was really bummed that I couldn’t take Naomi up on her discount consulting offer, because I’m still in the info-gathering phase. But I will gladly pay $500 when I’ve got something concrete and need direction, because as far as I’m concerned, Naomi’s got her priorities straight.

Right now I’m off to buy the Marketing School package before Friday ends, so I can take one more step toward “how can I make this work?”

By: Elaine Shannon

Elaine Shannon — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:32:20 +0000

Reading that comment brought me right back to the days when I worked at the bank…women stabbing women daily, but not in the heart, square in the back, in a lovely passive aggressive kind of way…and what for! Perhaps she was one of my co-workers :)

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:11:14 +0000

This is the bit that has me nodding so much my neck hurts:

We take a stranger’s marketing campaign as some sort of personal affront and wildly overreact. Then, when somebody fucks us over on a business deal, we keep quiet because we don’t want to sound like a bitch.

OK, duh, not every single woman on earth. Obviously.

But a lot of us? I think so. I see it every day, in myself & other women.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:42:03 +0000

WELL DONE. I love this post.

As a woman in technology I have, for so long, been “one of the guys.” Not “a woman who can kick your ass every day and twice on Sunday when it comes to computers,” but “one of the guys.” The token female of the IT sausage-fest.

Which is ok, except it’s not.

I hate that there’s this assumption that women are not as capable as men at certain things, and that women have to remain small and please everyone all the time. I hate that women buy into that and perpetuate it – and inflict it on their little girls. I hate even the fact that there’s such a distinction as “women in business” – as if it should be miraculous and amazing that a woman is an entrepreneur. What about “humans in business” ?

Thanks so much for this. It really does come down to having the courage of your convictions – and the right person to kick your ass when you don’t. You rock. :)