Ive been making and promoting music and comedy in Birmingham for a good while now – getting on for twenty years in fact, so I was pleased to get an email from local radio station BRMB this morning, referencing the fact that I blog about Birmingham related things.
Less exciting is the actual content:
“After coming across your Birmingham based blog I was wondering if you would consider writing a piece for BRMB Radio. BRMB has just launched a new motoring classifieds site, an alternative to Auto Trader called brmbmotors.co.uk.
This is becoming hugely success within the West Midlands area as it really has a local feel.
We would really like your support with this new service.
www.brmbmotors.co.uk
I’ll look forward to your reply.”
What do I know (or care) about cars? Not a lot.
Still, contact is contact, so I dont mean to be churlish. I’ll reply and see if the contact leads anywhere.
Rich
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That’s superb. Let us know how it goes.
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I, too, have received this email and replied to it. I was asked by the delightful Mr O’Brien if I wouldn’t mind writing about his no-doubt wonderful classified car site on my blog.
Which suggests he really, really hasn’t read my blog.
Still, page rank is everything, I suppose.