“The owner of a New York-based cookie company is going viral after calling out a beginner influencer,” NBC News reported on June 13, 2024.
The wannabe influencer wanted free cookies for her wedding reception. Her email said, “I’d love to include your amazing products in my bridal party boxes. Let’s chat!”
She’s not Caitlin Clark; she’s a nobody. (Named here, if you’re interested.) The cookie shop’s reply directed her to their ordering page (sample photo of his goods at left).
The owner says he gets a lot of these requests, and his standard reply is, “I see you don’t follow us. You’re a fan, but you don’t follow. And you say you’ve had our product before. You’ve ordered? What’s your order number?”
Some people call him a bully, but other small business owners support calling out social media users “who claim to be influencers for the purpose of getting free product.”
You can ask, of course, but it’s cheeky unless you can offer something of value in return. Such as enough followers to generate orders for the business. Bottom line, your value to a business is making profits for them.
Ironically, this news story may have done just that, because checking their website, everything is “sold out.”
For the record, this blog will never ask you for free cookies. I don’t even ask anybody to read my postings. The owner and editor of this blog doesn’t, either, because he’s dead.
The hundreds of thousands of readers of this Michelle Obama transgender satire come to this blog of their own volition. Nobody bribes them with chocolate-chip or wedding-cake cookies. Meanwhile serious posts here typically get a couple dozen readers. That really says something about our society, doesn’t it?
Go ahead, accuse me of leaving that Michelle Obama nonsense posted because it drives huge traffic to this otherwise obscure website belonging to a dead professor. Guilty. But this blog doesn’t earn a cent for me or anybody else, and I don’t ask anyone for free cookies either.