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If you want to sell something to TechCrunch, or anyone, the best way of going about it isn't to call people at their home number, accuse them of dishonesty, and then follow up with an email requesting a clearly unethical trading of services. All those things happened to me in the last five minutes. An account executive from CDNetworks called on my home phone to discuss our content delivery needs. I said we were all set. I was asked if I traded content delivery for PR. I said "yes, we always trade stories for free stuff," and, when she didn't hear the sarcasm, told her I wasn't being serious. We hung up. Then I get a cheery email offering content delivery in "some type of exchange for some article write up or PR with TechCrunch." Sorry, that may be how the old trade magazine did things, but it isn't how any ethical blog would behave. But you can have this post for free. It's worth noting that lots of companies give us free services all the time, and we often thank them with a link in the right sidebar. But asking for free press is just so distasteful. And I hate sales calls to my house. Email below:

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