Are There Any Marketers With Similar Names as You?

Not to the best of my knowledge

I agree that it would suck to be associated with spammers.

That Mac McClear gives me absolute fits with his spam.

One with exactly the same name as me.

I can't tell you how many times over the years I've been asked if I'm related to Howie Schwartz.

NO, I'M NOT! STOP ASKING!!!

John

No, no other "Britt Malka" in the world than me

LOL! The only one people ever confused me with is the Squidoo Queen. But luckily, we're both good people. Ha!

I second the pen name idea. Luckily, the only other Steve Oliphant I know of is a programmer not a marketer. (I like to think that I am both.)

I don't have that problem (that I know of - hah). Has he tried contacting the other person to find out if they can work something out? Maybe he can offer the "spammy" guy some business pointers and at least try to turn him around a bit.

I wonder if the other guy's name is real - or if he chose it as his pen name on purpose. Is there a way to find out?

There are probably many marketers operating under a pen name, using a name very similar to a well known marketer in order to ride off the back of their popularity for as long as they can.

Riz

Several years ago, for reasons I still do not understand, an art student in California started posting his artwork in a forum under my name.

Literally, my full name. His display name in the forum wasn't "CDarklock," it was "Caliban Tiresias Darklock." And after a while, I started getting email from people who didn't know I was a graphic artist, too, and would I give them a quote on this or that?

It took me a couple weeks to track down the issue, and once I did, I sent the individual in question a single email to the effect that Darklock was a trademark of Darklock Communications and we would pursue legal action if he attempted to use it in a business context. (I didn't like doing this, but trademark law is what it is, and I was legally required to notify once I became aware of him.)

Then I simply started responding to people who asked me about this and telling them that no matter the name, it wasn't me, and they'd need to contact that person some other way.

Within a month, the student had basically disappeared - I presume reappearing under another name. I would hope the new name was actually his, and not another person from some swipe file or something.

No, but there is an internationally famous skateboarder that shares my exact name. I have had a few people confuse us and try to approach me about skateboards.

Steve