How much is too much?

A colleague reached out to me today.

We met years ago at a mastermind hosted by Alex Mandossian in Austin.

I’ll leave his name out of it for now because he’s a friend.

It’s XXX from Alex’s Pathfinder mastermind.

Long time no talk!

It’s been a while, so I thought I would reach out and re-connect if you are ok with that 😊

We catch up a few times a year so I replied and sent him a link to my calendar.

Seconds later this arrives…

Thank you so much for your email. I am in meetings & podcasts most of the day and will be checking my email at 10:30AM and 4PM Eastern time. Thank you for your patience.

I know limiting your email activity to twice a day is a great way to get more done each day.

Receiving this automated reply made me feel like he was using me.

This wasn’t a friend reaching out to reconnect.

I felt like I was a pawn in his marketing campaign.

This made me feel like he was going to try to sell me something if we did schedule a call (he is an aggressive marketer but we don’t pitch each other because we’re friends).