This is almost too funny. I recived an email from two marketers about the same thing. One was from Scott Drake and the other from David Canham. It seems they are accusing each other of inapropriate actions. You may or may not have gotten these emails so let me copy and paste them here so you know what I’m talking about.

Can you say IM confrontation?

Begin Email Quotes:

Scott Drake says:
“I was just about to send out a message to promote David Canham’s new giveaway when the following popped up on my Skype:

[4:25:41 PM] David Canham says: what your not going to upgrade you cheap bastard?
[4:26:15 PM] David Canham says: (mooning)

NOTE: the (mooning) text will display a man figure bending over and exposing his Butt as to say Kiss My A&%

With the Maturity at this Level I am now Recommending everyone to stay away from such even. Don’t worry David will have his boss Guido promoting for him.

I am sure David will follow up on this message with some sort of justification or accusation as he is good at doing that like the accusations against Scott Case that he posted on IMCops.com that that we had to delete because they were false.”

The confrontation continues…

David Canham says:
“I’m not sure if you’re on Scott Drakes email list or not so I don’t know if you got the defamatory email he sent out about me.

I have known Scott for over a year and was in daily contact with him through Skype. We were friends for a while I guess until he took something personal.

The comment I made to him today through skype was made in jest and he conveniently cut out that part of the message before blasting it all over the internet.

I currently have criminal charges through the Internet crimes division pressed against Scott for an illegal hack into my server so maybe this is why he has responded as he did.

I do my business with the utmost integrity and honesty and always treat my customers as I would like to be treated.

Whether you choose to stay on my list after his comments is entirely up to you. I hope that you do but if you don’t I understand.”

End Email Quotes

What does this all mean? It means that impropriety is taking place in the IM business. I sent an email out to both David and Scott and guess who replied first. DAVID! What he had to say made much more sense than the noreply from Scott.

Now, I’m not saying either is right or wrong but, owning a hosting business myself, what David had to say made so much sense to me it’s incredible! All his i’s were dotted and t’s crossed. To me that says a TON about David and his marketing practices. On the other side is Scott and his case. I never received a reply. It could be his spam filters prevented my email from getting to him, or maybe he uses an email which he doesn’t get or does not open very often. All I know as of writing this is that Scott NEVER replied and David has!

Why am I sharing this you ask? To help you and your marketing, that’s why! You want to avoid confrontations like this. You want to be a respected member of the IM comunity. No one will ever trust you if things like the above ever happen to you!

For the record, the email from David Canham was very convincing since I own a hosting company. I know how it all works…

If you have received these emails, please let me know what you think about the rift between David Canham and Scott Drake. I would love to hear your comments about the whole thing.