At Least Give The Appearance Of Credibility

Let me start off by saying that I rarely post in Main Discussion these days
because I an busy doing other things with my life. So there is no agenda here
(signature removed) other than to try to give some of you some advice that
just might save your businesses.

It's called the appearance of credibility.

I'm not saying to fake anything, but for heaven's sake, if you're going to email
somebody, at least give the appearance of credibility so you don't come off
looking like a total con man and fool.

I received an email from a "friend" at the Warrior Forum. Well, for starters, I
don't know this person from Adam. At least the name certainly didn't ring any
bells. I looked to see if they had ever purchased anything from me, not that
this matters. Nothing. Okay. The email address they used could have only been
gotten one way...joining one of my lists.

So I searched through my Aweber account.

Nothing.

Hmmm...now this is getting interesting. How did this person find me? It's not
an email associated with anything other than list building unless somewhere
it's floating around the Internet.

However, a friend wouldn't contact me through this email.

Anyway, the person goes on to ask me why I don't post so much anymore.

Okay, it does seem to be a personal email, at least in the first paragraph.

And then the pitch comes.

It was for some new site or something or another. I don't know. I don't care.

This person contacted me under the guise of being a "friend", made a lame
attempt to be "personal" and then hits me with a pitch that, get this, he
knows I have a big list and would I send this URL to them.

Great, so now he wants me to burn my own list with this nonsense.

Oh, but it gets better.

At the end, he says that he may need my coaching because his IM business is
not doing well.

How can you pitch me something to supposedly make me and my list money
if you're not making anything yourself?

Please folks, think about every single thing you do when you contact
somebody because somebody is going to be smart enough to read through
the BS and realize that you're full of it.

If this person had simply contacted me with a JV offer or something and
simply said, I know you from the forum, I know you're successful, would you
mind looking at my offer, I would have had a lot more respect for this person.

I can't help but wonder how many other people at this forum got the SAME
email.

Credibility folks. It's the most important thing you have in your business. If
you don't have it, at least give the appearance of it by not writing blatantly
deceitful and hole ridden emails (pitch product and then admit you're failing)

I do have friends here...and good friends who I would trust with my life.

Please don't be something you're not.

Finally, if the person who sent this email reads this, please note that I did
not mention your name and that the only way anybody would know that it's
you is if you sent this email to others. So if you choose to out yourself in
public, you do so on your own decision. Please don't blame me.

Hopefully, you, and everybody else reading this, will take this as a friendly
piece of advice to think about how you approach people with your emails
to them. Please don't be something you're not and don't disguise sales pitches
as "friend" letters.

Anybody with half a brain will see right through them.