How to not contact someone via Skype!

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I have had my Skype info in my profile for all of about 2 days now and have never had it on here in my whole time being here... Within the first 2 days I have been contacted by 6 people offering services straight up, lets be honest here, they were rubbish to. It has already become tedious and annoying but that's the nature of the business and some people will genuinely never get it, oh well.

Here is a little bit of help when contacting someone...

Don't slap an offer right in their face! They are not going to buy, period. You will be blocked and deleted straight away, your name will forever be tarnished in that persons minds. I now know of 6 warriors I will never bother talking to because I know it will be a waste of my time.

If you are going to contact someone, contact him or her for an actual reason... If you liked one of their posts and wanted to say thank you to them, that's great. Maybe, if you actually needed some genuine help and didn't know whom else to turn to, some may be willing to help. But! If you are going to contact them, take some time and think how you are going to open your conversation. Skype has a generic default message when contacting someone, change it! Personalize it to the person you want to contact! Let them know your not going to spam them with some stupid offer! Oh and here is an obvious thing, do not be rude!!

I myself am now auto ignoring anyone who doesn't take the time to actually consider what he or she is writing. If you truly want to succeed in this business, start networking; build up a relationship, integrity, manners, respect and common sense! Trust me on this one, there is a lot more profit in doing this then attempting to make a $17 profit and getting your name tarnished!

My little rant is over, anyone got some extra horror stories to share ☺.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sumit D Thakur
    I have also got 2 people on my skype who contact me for the same , this is really rubbish .
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  • Remove your skype contact from your profile to get rid of such rubbish. They will disturb you again and again. If you really want to contact someone through skype, you can PM that member to get connected with you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rob Whisonant
    Look on the bright side. It helps you build a list of who NOT to do business with.

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    • Profile picture of the author butters
      Originally Posted by Rob Whisonant View Post

      Look on the bright side. It helps you build a list of who NOT to do business with.

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      I did giggle Highly targeted to .
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      • Profile picture of the author Dustin Lyle
        Id tell them to go to my site and fill out the contact form and I'd get back with them.... In actuality, I would send them affiliate offers every other day.
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        • Profile picture of the author Gordon P
          Originally Posted by Dustin Lyle View Post

          Id tell them to go to my site and fill out the contact form and I'd get back with them.... In actuality, I would send them affiliate offers every other day.
          Haha. How to spam a spammer
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  • Profile picture of the author Sue McDonald
    Almost as annoying as people adding you to groups on Facebook that you have no interest in. This has happened to me three times in the last two weeks.
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  • Profile picture of the author stephenwaldo
    This is exactly why I give out Skype contact info in my W4H threads and my website, but not through my profile. My email already gets spammed because of this forum; I don't need my Skype account thrown in there too.
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