Wow… I’ve just received the most unbelievable phone call from the iStrategy Conference Company with reference to a tweet of mine on the 14th December.

I’m familiar with iStrategy because they run a Social Media conference, and during last year they approached upwards of 15 times about either buying tickets or selling me sponsorship – it started again this year with two consecutive phone calls from their usual aggressive highly trained sales people, so I kindly asked to be removed from their call list on both occasions.

Today’s phone call was awkward, with the guy suggesting that my tweet was a low blow and directly an attempt to negatively affect the reputation of his conference, and suggested that I don’t do it again or he will be “forced to retaliate and put bad word about my events”…

To be honest, I’m flattered that they see techMAP’s free monthly meetup as direct competition for their £5000 per ticket yearly global conference, but this certainly wasn’t an attempt of a ‘mines better than yours’ game, and I’m not interested in starting a petty social media war over a single tweet…

Having said that I’m truly disgusted by their approach cannot believe that they followed up my tweet with a further threatening phone call… it’s bad form, shows lack of understanding of the space they work in, and it came with a tone that suggested they didn’t want people to talk about their brand and they’d do anything to protect it!

Guys… Don’t call again and enjoy your conference #thatisall