'New York' Mag: Always Be Closing
Funny: To magazine people, "closing" usually means something different than it does to salespeople. And, frankly, we don't so much want to be doing their kind. (We don't really want to be doing our kind, either, but it goes with the territory.) Somehow, though, lines got a little crossed yesterday at New York magazine, where some business folks decided to let no selling opportunity go unexploited and therefore reconfigured the email system to automatically append this flackery to the end of every outgoing message:
We understand the editorial folks were most unamused, and, fortunately, by the end of the day of the day the ads were gone.
Which goes to show that there are some real advantages to having the billionaire owner's kid — who, reasonably reliable rumors have it, through some sort of corporate, tax-avoidance, shell-game maneuver is actually the technical owner of the mag — newly started as an associate editor.
