Why Are People With Large List Not Truthful

It happens all the time. I was just talking about this with Mike Ambrosio the other day. Don't assume that everyone who commits to a promotion will actually take action for you.

Plus, from the scenario you describe, maybe they didn't like your product and don't want to tell you. Not saying that it isn't a good product but affiliates and JV partners are fickle.

I have had correspondence with people who would ignore my emails for days or even weeks and then do what they promised. There is no knowing how busy they are or what they may be going through. Just take a step back and give them room. While you are waiting, go find other partners.

TomG.

Yeah...
It happens all the time in life. People renege on business promises. Guys say they'll call the girl and never do. Girls don't return your call after smiling, winking and saying, "call me anytime..." It's endless...

I think the important thing to do is accept that it happens, brush yourself off, and jump back in and kick ass anyway. Show your guy that he really screwed up by not following through. Use his snub as motivation to go out and make your project a huge success - because with stuff like this, success is the best, and only revenge. Good Luck!

Lives are buys..

I certainly don't have time to fit in all the list promo I would like and sometimes I have to cut things off at the last minute..

but you are right.. a little common courtesy should be involved..

I would certainly try to let the person know what was going on..

Peace

Jay

I've had the same thing happen to me.

Do you know how many favors I have to cash in on where I promoted someone's product that said they'd promote my next launch?

A BOAT LOAD

But I'll put money on it that when I start cashing in on these favors,
many will not hold up there end of the bargain.

This is why you have to build a business that doesn't rely solely on
affiliates.

Any revenue generated from affiliates should be gravy.

Jason

Jason

I generally only create products that are not affiliate based because of these problems

this is the second time I have done this, got promises from some very big names last I heard from them was send me a copy and point me to the affiliate signup

now all of a sudden the constant contact between the people dries up

I guess this is common, I can understand why many people just don't do this because of all the people that don't deliver

Ed

What happened to you is definitely disrespectful. But, I would not classify everyone with a large list as untruthful.

Unfortunately, there are people that are like that out there.

It would have been better if they would just contacted you. Or, to simply return your e-mails.

But, sometimes people just make the wrong choices.

That's how life is. But, it is definitely unfair to classify everyone with a large list as untruthful.

Regards,

Shannon Herod

The reason is because untruthful people generate large lists by being untruthful

If the list is that large maybe he has too many people asking for help. Your e-mail may also be caught in his spam filter. He could also be ill.

Don't think too badly of him as there could be a reason for his lack of response.

God bless

Norma

I don't know if it's truthful or not to ignor someone from your list, busy or not. Most would appreciate some response and surely would understand if you are too busy to promote them or whatever reason.
But, I think it's important for those with lists-big or small- to realize that you spend a lot of time and energy "building a relationship" with your list. You email that you're going shopping, taking the kids somewhere, on vacation, or sick. People begin to think of you as a sort of "friend", that they know you. So, when they feel 'snubbed', it's more offensive.

I think if they don't have time. They might as well put up a DO NOT DISTURB sign. Acting interested at first but then ignoring you without any legitimate excuse is not okay in my books.

The chances are:

# 1: You didn't give them enough in return to make it worthwhile to promote you or...

# 2: They just didn't like your product (that's a biggie and can be very awkward...how do you tell someone the product they just sent you stinks when they think it walks on water) and/or...

# 3: They already had a product that was directly competitive.

# 4: The timing turned out to be bad.

People with large lists have a lot of JV partners and sometimes you get pushed down or off the list of offers to email because a JV partner whose far more important to them asks for a favor.

You need to build a LOT of relationships and understand that everyone has to look after their own list of subscribers and do what's right for their subscribers and their business.

Helping you MUST be secondary to that.

If you're patient, you produce excellent products and you go out of your way to promote the products of people you're trying to do a JV with then the JVs will come.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

All in all I can understand peoples priorities etc... life goes on

But in my opinion not being courteous enough to say no thankyou or this does not fit into my business plan

doesn't matter what they say

but being just ignored, snubbed whatever you want to call it, I think is just plain rude

especially when its more than a casual email correspondence that developed this relationship

I just wanted to air this out to see how others felt about this type of behavior and it was interesting to see how its ok for some to say

people are busy, have other priorities, any excuse to justify this behavior etc... sad to see people actually support or accept this type of behavior, what ever happen to common courtesy when a simple no thankyou would suffice

just goes to show what is acceptable these days

as for me its a part of doing business working with no shows, these types of people exist as surprising as it was to see who showed their true colors

it didn't take long to put this behind me, its a dead issue anyways

Ed

It happens, it happens.. and, it will never stop to happen! It hurts really. And I think it is not a good behavior to go with.

I am new here but I can't help but to jump in. Trust is to be earned. I can trust you only one time. Breach it and I will move on. In life, it's just too short to spend too much effort on people without much trust.

I must say that that happens sometimes! You surely wish that people would stand up to their word a little better than they do. The thing about doing business online is that it's easy for people to quit and walk away and there's nothing you can do about it.

People ignoring messages sent to them is just rude.

Even if you don't reply right away, reply later when you have the time and apologize for not responding sooner. Some don't reply immediately and never do. That's stupid business practice.

As for giving the benefit of the doubt to these folks, some of them just plain don't deserve that 'cos they're serial offenders.

All in all, as a business community we shouldn't be building this kind of bad blood scenarios whether money is involved or not.

Simply respond with a polite "can't be done" and let the person go lick his wounds or move on but to keep them guessing is just idiotic plain and simple.

Come to think of it I have some outstanding responses to get to, and I WILL apologize for responding later than usual, that is at least the next best thing to an instant response especially if you just are too busy or prefer not to respond instantly for whatever reason.

Bottom line, don't encourage this bad behavior, Ed did great voicing out, if more of us did, this kind of thing just might reduce drastically.

Cheers,

Kunle