What’s Up With Bacn?
Never heard of it? Here’s a little background...
Bacn messages are emails you want to read, but not immediately. They are not spam, as the recipient has signed up to receive them. An example of Bacn emails include
Google News Alerts,
MySpace emails telling you someone has posted a comment about you and the newest products at
L’Occitane. Many call Bacn “middle class” email. They're emails that are a bit of a nuisance, however you don't necessarily delete them. You know they're there, and you'd like to get to them, but just not today...or tomorrow. Sound familiar?
I was at a
ClickZ email marketing conference this week, and one of the speakers mentioned Bacn and spoke a bit about it. This was the first time I had heard of the term, and I related to it immediately. We all deal with Bacn messages. I have so much Bacn, I don’t know what to do with it, nor do I know when I’ll get to it. I rarely delete these emails, but I do mark them as unread, so that I may go back to them SOMEDAY (although I do religiously skim my Google Alerts as they come in). I currently have about 197 unread Bacn messages in my
Yahoo! inbox as I write this.
My to do for the weekend: get through at least 50 of my unread messages and reward myself with a big glass of OJ and a side of bacn and eggs.
Have a wonderful
Columbus Day Weekend...
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