I've never received a nasty PM in my time here.

I piss people off regularly... I'm sure I get PMs from people like that or receive "infractions" for telling people what is needed instead of what they want to hear. Honestly, I'm not really sure how much hate mail I get because half the PMs I get, go unread.

Just be you... if you get mad about something, be mad.. if you're laid back, be laid back. Don't change yourself because someone on a forum might be ungrateful, or someone might not like what you have to say. Who cares?

Be yourself, get what you need to be done, done, and always move forward.

The majority of the people in this forum are involved in sales and or marketing. Therefore, it's fairly safe to say that most of us are not so thin-skinned that anything here would be bothersome. In the outter world we are faced with far worse possibilities of rudeness than here. Not to mention that the forum has an ignore function is someone really annoys you.

I think the "Thank You" button in the WF is one of the single most brilliant buttons I've ever come across in a vehicle such as this. It allows people who may not be able to put in words for any particular reason their appreciation.

I'm also hard pressed to believe that anyone is here for the express purpose of cyber-applause. I'm sure that are a few people here that may want to "sell" some of their knowledge and that's fine too. I would certainly buy a WSO from someone that I have some knowledge of than someone with 100 kudos from members with 3 posts to their credit.

I'm online mainly for business purposes so I could careless what anyone thinks of me, yes something that someone says to me might bother initially but at the end of the day who cares. Everyone has an opinion about something, some people sometimes have bad days and then some people are just straight up A-holes who cares. Life is too short to worry about A-holes and mean people!

Never got a nasty reply, but did help someone out in PM and they never responded back. Probably won't do that again.

Yes, I'm pretty sure most of us have gone through something like that, it's not only happening in the Internet world.. In fact, It's happening more in real life.

I don't usually allow negative people to take over my emotions, thinking, mood etc, although sometimes I really want to punch, kick or "beach' slap their face.. After a few minutes of feeling angry, I'll remind myself that I shouldn't be upset over such an incident, it's just not worth.. I have better things to worry about!

Even though I'm not successful at this all the time but experience tells me that I'll feel a lot more happier when I'm in control of myself and the situation.. Being in control is one of the most powerful "thing" I've ever known..

Pray to God, turn to God.. That's another powerful method

Jeremiah

I consider the source and deal appropriately. The only hate mail I've gotten was from a scammer because I challenged them on the use of not only a fake name, but on selling hyped up stuff that was pretty worthless. Few things are really worth getting heated over.

Regardless, even some of the things I read here piss me off because they can be misleading, but I brush it off.

Personally, I stand up whenever I'm challenged. Being a strong type A, I have a hard time backing down from any kind of challenge...something I've had to work on for a long time. I'd have to say being polite is a big bonus both online and offline. I make a point to not act like a jackass until someone does that first lol.

If someone were to ask me, I'd say it's best to be polite no matter what because this is business after all, and we must protect our brand image. That's something I've had to learn myself...trust takes a while to build and an instant to lose. Can't risk that by getting heated on a forum.

Answer: YES.

I know this because I have too many people to answer everyday, when you dont answer one, you lose a customer... and if 15 days a month you miss "someone", you lose that person... in two months you have lost 30 customers...

When you figure that only ten percent of your list are buyers anyway... and you realize that most of the people you lose come from that 10%... Then you see that over sixty days of not catching everything up you can lose 30-50 customers...

Thats significant.

You may not notice in the sense of loss because new people come into your network every day, but you notice in the lack of "growth".

So yes, answering emails (I know thats not what this is about) is important...but theres also a catch 22 when you get too many, because most of them dont want to hear from your VA...they will put up with it, but they really want an answer from YOU...and it can get to a point where you cant answer everyone.

I have 20 threads on this forum where I owe people answers...and I promise I lose customers everyday on every one of them...

And then the next day 5 more people want answers immediately... and its hard to get back around and catch up or even remember where you are supposed to be posting.

Yes, this is an important topic.

The answer is to get really sharp and make sure you list each day who needs answers and go down that liost like a machine first thing... It may take two hours per day... But do you want to lose 50 customers over 60 days?

Success has alot of catch 22's...its our job to work around those to keep growing.

More real world experience from JD here. Hope you dont tire of it. Its the best purest stuff I promise that.

Forum etiquette is highly important.

Ps. Customers are alot harder to earn than they are too lose... BTW , I piss people off alot too, and like IAMNameless... I dont hold back wherever I am at... But thats dumb brother...we need to change.

Every pissy post loses a hundred potential customers over the next ten years and de-inspires someone who could have been inspired.

Dont look down on me for sharing this experience... I just share what other people are afraid to but also face...

Learn from it.

I dont care if people thank me or not....helping is a way of life. I think its small minded to even expect it personally, let alone "ask" for it. Just let the universe pay you back.

I do. Sometimes it bites me in the rear, but its always fair so no one can complain. lol

I DO expect a return, just not from any individual.

Some people are just very insensitive about their acts.