Ironic isn’t it? Couple of days back I received an email from let’s say a well established matrimonial website. Oh! Screw yaar, it was from Shaadi.Com. A lady from their marketing department found my blog to be appropriately suited for their website’s promotional snippets and thereby wanted to strike a mutually benefitted business deal with moi.
Now if you are as successful as I am in the desi-blogdom (yes modesty seems to be the highest virtue these days) then private advertising offers are a regular feature. Not much moolah but moolah nonetheless.
Anyway what got me by the gigglee nerve was that in the mail the very nice lady mentioned something on the lines of having studied my blog (meaning posts) extensively and thus coming to the conclusion that it was an excellent advertising medium. Excellent advertising medium my ever so sexy (so what if flat) arse.
I mean seriously…if one has read this blog as efficiently as claimed then even a noodle soup doodee would realize that my thoughts are anything but marriage friendly, especially arranged marriage. And if not off the mark, matrimonial sites could be classified as - one of 21st century’s popular arranged marriage routes.
So much so for extensive research. Maybe for once they should attempt doing the same with their eyes open. On second thoughts though; maybe just maybe they are dabbling with twisted psychology here. You know like telling it to a 6 year old, don’t do this because it’s bad for you but in actuality you do want the kid to take the bait.
Either ways, my reply to the kind lady’s e-mail was positive. Very positive. Why? Because in us Punjabis there is a popular saying “Aati huai Lamxi ko kabhi na nahi kehete”.
Comments
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Prasoon
Oct 14th, 2008 at 3:43 am | #
Lol on that Punjabi saying
Btw, are we going to see “Alliance invited for 2X years old …” kinda posts? maybe not very random people but how about opening such posts for fellow bloggers? They’ll all be very happy you see
We can have a line in the PS on the marriage ad - “should be a blogger who has commented on to each its own before”
Banno
Oct 14th, 2008 at 5:09 am | #
And why should you? Say ‘No’ to Lakshmi, that is. After all, it’s the researcher’s headache to ascertain whether your site is good for them. No?
Nikhil Narayanan
Oct 14th, 2008 at 5:14 am | #
SJ,
I have a shaadi.com banner on by blog for close to 6months and hope to rake it moolah there.
Anyways, I get a monthly email from them not to lose hope, my revenue is still at zero and keep the banner active.
-Nikhil
Sudeep
Oct 14th, 2008 at 5:44 am | #
He he he… wah teri toh diwali chalu ho gayi Sakshi
Sumit
Oct 14th, 2008 at 8:51 am | #
Reverse psychology. Readers horrified by the gruesome images that you paint of arranged marriages might look at the matrimonial site as a refuge from the war zone out there. You should consider adding a before and after photo series.
Sameer Panchangam
Oct 14th, 2008 at 9:18 am | #
I think it had something to do with the recent “Live-In” relationship post!
Sites providing Live-In matching services will be a bigger hit than Shaadi.com!
So you might have Ads on your blog for both services - it’s gets easier for people to choose!
Motorbeam.com
Oct 14th, 2008 at 2:55 pm | #
Saks you don’t wanna marry or are you waiting for love to happen
ankur
Oct 14th, 2008 at 6:35 pm | #
That fool wants to pay you. Who cares if she is advertising ramdev dude or victorias secrets . So the moral of the story is take the cash. Enjoy your life. Let shaadi.com worry
shweta
Oct 15th, 2008 at 1:03 am | #
hahah……smart you are
Kanupriya
Oct 15th, 2008 at 8:58 am | #
LOL…I agree the content of this site is not at shaadi-friendly but neverthless since your blog is so popular and since your blog has got so much of fan following, so I’m sure that Shaadi will be able to reach lots of net-savy consumers through your blog
and yeah I agree “aati hui lakshmi ko na nahi karna chahiye.
aarhi
Oct 15th, 2008 at 9:11 am | #
I feel they were relating bollywood with matrimony, saas bahu drama maybe?
Saakshi O. Juneja
Oct 15th, 2008 at 5:06 pm | #
Will make it clear for the last time : Marriage and Love ain’t my cup of tea. I love life.
erken rezervasyon
Apr 12th, 2009 at 2:20 pm | #
Thansk