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My response to a pessimistic subscriber (today's email fun lol). . .

I’ll leave this particular subscriber’s name out of this blog entry because I’m not attempting to embarrass or harass him in anyway… I just took his email to be very pessimistic & my reply was not aimed at making him more upset or angry, but to show him that he’s already defeated himself in his own mind, without even attempting to battle.

So here’s some very brief background info:

This subscriber signed up for information regarding “how to get traffic from Twitter” at my site www.TwitterHints.com

After receiving a few of my informational messages giving him pretty detailed step by step tips for taking action to make this stuff work for him, he replied to an auto-responder message with the following (the ONLY thing I changed in his message was the deletion of his name so he can remain anonymous):

“Hi Chris,

I wish I understood how all this works. LOL

It’s far too complicated for the ordinary person to try.

I’ve no ‘plugins’ on my blog.

No posts, either. What do I know that anyone would want to read?

I’ve been selling for 4 years and resisted a blog until 3 months ago.

The “install WordPress in seconds” actually took two LOOOOONG days.

Once the theme is in, that’s all that can be done with it.

I don’t use it at all because I’d need to pay a programmer to go past the initial set-up.

I have no accounts at any of these kiddies’ social sites and don’t really see the point.

Even if I did, there’s no way to put the silly looking buttons on the blog.

Therefore, no blog. No loss.

How would anyone find it to read it?

I’d be too embarrassed to tell anyone I was playing with adolescents’ websites. LOL

Twitter -sounds childish – does it have a purpose for anyone over 15?

Or is it like MySpace and all the others, a hangout for lovelorn teenagers.

Regards,

(Name Deleted for Anonymity)”

After reading the email I did not feel irritated.  At first, I almost didn’t reply because I thought there was little chance of getting through to this lost soul who has already lost the battle for traffic before it’s even begun.

But after a little pondering & thought, I went ahead & replied to our anonymous friend with the following message… I did let him have it a little bit, but only because I was hoping to inspire him to change the way he is thinking, and open his mind to new possibilities:

“Hmm,

Sounds like you’ve already got it all figured out then… so why the waste of time emailing me?

I don’t mean to sound rude, but I don’t get your email at all…

If you’re so sure that all of these “kiddie” social sites aren’t worth the effort then why did you even bother following up with me or joining the email list?

I’m getting loads of traffic from Twitter & my subject matter is not childish whatsoever, but heck, maybe I just got lucky…

I have a feeling that if you took a few minutes to try out some of the things I recommend in the email course you’d see this is a worthwhile way to get quality traffic for free.  I can’t do it for you & if you don’t have the technical skills to set this stuff up that’s not really my fault & doesn’t necessarily mean this stuff doesn’t work.

Where there’s a will there’s a way.  I’m sure you could benefit from my information if you put it to good use, but you have a very “defeated” attitude that won’t get you far.  I hope you can figure out a way to turn that around & make this stuff work for you.

If you’ve been selling for 4 years then you should be able to pay a programmer a few bucks to help you out.  I found a programmer on Elance that I’ve been using for years and he would setup a blog for me & follow all of the instructions in my report if I told him to, and he’d probably do it for about $75.

Excuses are like hurdles that you are putting in front of yourself.  Stop making them and you won’t have to jump around as much & you’ll be amazed at how much you can accomplish when you set your mind in the right direction before you start moving your feet.

Chris”

I hope that you who are now reading this blog entry aren’t doing this to yourself.  You shouldn’t hold yourself back based on prejudices or ill-formed assumptions.  There are always new & changing possiblities, especially when it comes to internet marketing, because after all, a big part of our business relies on technology – which IS constantly changing!