OK so I need some opinions here and for taking the time to help me out..............I will post some hot pics. :-) Deal?
Here is the question:
Obviously I own an affialite program
www.BiminiBucks.com and I have my ICQ# on the site as well as in my sig here on GFY. So I get hit up pretty often from people that have questions and requests for eveything from content to help promote our sites...........to legal question............to complaints..................webmaster questions.................you name it and I get it. I don't mind and in fact enjoy getting to know those that we are in business with. I pass on the webmaster stuff to Mikie and the affiliate questions I can't answer I direct them to Punker Barbie.
Now here is the issue.............I am old school in my business practices and believe that even though we enjoy this great laid back business we are all in, we still need to remember that though we have fun...................this is still a business and for some of us a very big one. So when I am online working and I get an ICQ from someone I do not know, I expect that they will introduce themselves to me.................i.e "Hi I am Joe and I am a new affiliate just getting started. My site is www. whatever .com and I would like...................."
For the most part this is what I get. Affliates and traffic pushers young and old acting lke they have there shit together and are in this to make $$$$$.
But every once in a while (like this morning) I get someone that hits me up on ICQ and gets right to "I need a password to your sites"
My response " Ahhhh ok and you are who?"
His reponse is always something like "an affiliate why you asking?"
I try very hard to be gracefull in my request to start this relationship off on a good footing but in the end you just can't win with some and it ends up being "Im am just trying to promote your fucking sites why are you being such and asshole to me???"
And this is ussually after 20 or 30 messages back and forth with me asking what the URL for his site is that he wishes to promote from. And still after argueing, explaining, and cursing at each other, he doesn't tell me his name...............or the URL's for any sites he can claim as his.
Another scenario is the exact same approach form the affiliate (no intro no nothing just give me what I want asshole) and in the end he gives me the URL's for some little traffic sites that he claims to run. But still doesn't make any attempt to make nice with me or even tell me his name.
My reaction to this is always the same......................If you want to do business with
www.BiminiBucks.com than you need to handle yourself in a more proffesional manner and NOT act like a 15 year old trying to get into porn. If you don't want to act an adult and extend some common courtesy to me when you approach.....................than you don't have to push our sites, move on and best of luck to you.
I had this guy tell me today............."You met a friend of mine at a show and he said you were a nice guy in person and can't understand why you are such a dick on ICQ."
Well I can only imagine when I met him at a show we introduced ourselves and talked about what it is we both do for a living. I can promise you he didn't come up to me in the loby of the hotel and demand a password to my sites.
What are your thoughts.
Oh yeah and for taking the time to respond here are some pics for you!
Thanks and have a great 2005!!!!!
Pics comming next