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Hey—It's Tim. 

I’m back in Vancouver, sunburnt from thinking 28 °C counts as “cooling off.”
Turns out I can still fry like a British crisp. 🍟

Yes, I Read Your Last Five Emails

“No pressure, Tim - just circling back.”
“Quick bump on this!”
“Friendly nudge.”

Look, I get it. I was once the intern tasked with firing off 1,000 link-beg emails before lunch. I felt the fear of an empty Sent folder.

But here’s the truth:

If your content was good in the first place I would’ve already linked to it.

Let me say that again.

If you content was good. I would have linked to it already…

And if my article’s pulling 9k eyeballs a month, why would I swap a chunk of my reputation for your half-arsed roundup from 4 years ago?

penfriend.ai/no

That URL does the talking now.
One-click reality check.
Rude? Maybe.
Efficient? Absolutely.

Some folks call it unfair. Others call it arrogant. I call it Tuesday.

What “Mutual Benefit” Really Means

• You get traffic.

• I get… a guilt-ridden thank-you?

Hard pass. I trust my taste, my research, my readers. I’ll trade eyeballs for something priceless - insight, story, punchline - not for another limp DR-7 backlink.

I know a few of you are loading your pitch cannons right now.

Fire away.

Just do me a favour: read the article first, make something brilliant, and maybe—maybe—I’ll spot it before you even hit send.

✌️ Tim "Backlink Bouncer" Hanson
CMO @Penfriend.ai

Same brain, different platforms: X, Threads, LinkedIn.

P.S. Between us: every canned pitch that hits /no drops into a private swipe file. Worst offenders = best inspo. Tomorrow’s rant writes itself - thanks for the copy, champs.

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