Online Business Women: A Step up from the Dark Ages?
I have no idea where this article is going to take me, but I have to share with you an incident that happened a few weeks ago.
Basically when I find myself working on a Saturday morning (pretty often) I find myself listening to BBC Radio Wales Saturday morning show with Rhod Gilbert (A VERY funny comedian) and his sidekick Chris Corcoran (The fellow that makes Doodle Do watchable).
One of the many features on their show is Listener Bingo where listeners are encouraged to contact the show when they are listening while doing something eg, listening to the podcast next Wednesday, listening while on a helicopter etc. The one a few weeks ago was listening to the show whilst Googling your own name. I contacted the show as my blog ranks 5th under the keyphrase Deb Harrison.
In hindsight, quoting my name on the show was a bad idea, but my logic was that a few listeners might also Google my name and either like my writing or look at my many services and hey presto, Business Lead or subscriber. Result!
Wrong, wrong and wrong again. A few evenings later, I got an anonymous phone call from someone trying to sound sexy, but sounded more like he had both a lisp and bronchitis. I thought it was one of my mates messing about so I persevered for a bit. When this guy da-daa'd the stripper music, he then proceeded to start a striptease on the phone (even I am still scratching my head on that one). I proceeded to put the phone down to put the poor soul out of his misery.
Now I can only assume someone listened to the show and followed the same path as me, but I do not hold the show responsible. It was my own silly fault. Even though I do see women as equals and just as capable as doing the same job as men, obviously there are still a few inbred members of mankind that don’t. The ones who still think women are mere baby machines and all working women are witches that should be burned at the stake in front of the entire village.
I have no idea if Jill Whalen of High Rankings.com or Martha Lane Fox ex-MD of lastminute.com have ever had to encounter stalkers or pervy phone calls, but for any business woman reading this, but please do share your stories as I would love to know.
The entire experience was actually quite amusing, but one last thing: please could the tele-stripper make themselves known: Just so I can seek closure (and point and laugh!).
Basically when I find myself working on a Saturday morning (pretty often) I find myself listening to BBC Radio Wales Saturday morning show with Rhod Gilbert (A VERY funny comedian) and his sidekick Chris Corcoran (The fellow that makes Doodle Do watchable).
One of the many features on their show is Listener Bingo where listeners are encouraged to contact the show when they are listening while doing something eg, listening to the podcast next Wednesday, listening while on a helicopter etc. The one a few weeks ago was listening to the show whilst Googling your own name. I contacted the show as my blog ranks 5th under the keyphrase Deb Harrison.
In hindsight, quoting my name on the show was a bad idea, but my logic was that a few listeners might also Google my name and either like my writing or look at my many services and hey presto, Business Lead or subscriber. Result!
Wrong, wrong and wrong again. A few evenings later, I got an anonymous phone call from someone trying to sound sexy, but sounded more like he had both a lisp and bronchitis. I thought it was one of my mates messing about so I persevered for a bit. When this guy da-daa'd the stripper music, he then proceeded to start a striptease on the phone (even I am still scratching my head on that one). I proceeded to put the phone down to put the poor soul out of his misery.
Now I can only assume someone listened to the show and followed the same path as me, but I do not hold the show responsible. It was my own silly fault. Even though I do see women as equals and just as capable as doing the same job as men, obviously there are still a few inbred members of mankind that don’t. The ones who still think women are mere baby machines and all working women are witches that should be burned at the stake in front of the entire village.
I have no idea if Jill Whalen of High Rankings.com or Martha Lane Fox ex-MD of lastminute.com have ever had to encounter stalkers or pervy phone calls, but for any business woman reading this, but please do share your stories as I would love to know.
The entire experience was actually quite amusing, but one last thing: please could the tele-stripper make themselves known: Just so I can seek closure (and point and laugh!).
