I met a person few days ago at our IMA preview. She is pretty interesting. After listening to the preview, she came to the back where my colleague was standing and asked a lot of questions pertaining to Internet Marketing. I’m not too sure of what was the initial conversation, but it pretty soon morph into a crash course on Internet Marketing.
You see, she had a physical product to sell and she wanted to learn how to do it. So she kept asking questions after questions after questions. It became pretty clear that she had no intention of joining us, but all the intentions of just using us as a source of information. We’ve showed her many many sources, eBay stores, own domain names, the definition of blogs, etc, etc…
She also asked about the price of Stuart’s book. We are selling it at $28 at out place, as compared to the usual rate of S$31.90 at the bookstores. As she had a voucher that she could get it for about $25, she didn’t get the book from us.
Now, it’s not that she have to get it from us. Today, I’m talking about this thing called gratitude. Despite our help for an hour answering her most desperate questions, this lady showed no gratitude (in my opinion) and still wanted to get the book outside.
When I first began internet marketing, I had people helping me out. I bought products thru their affiliate recommendations, even though I fully understand that I can get it through my own affiliate link and get a huge discount for it. Why do I do it? Gratitude. For the simple fact that my mentors need not help me, but they did it anyway. As a result, they’ve established a healthy relationship with tme.
Coming back to this topic proper, I would commend further, as I left out a lot of details. It really wasn’t a nice feeling from yesterday’s session, but we’ve got to realize that in this world, it takes all sorts. We cannot force people to do things that we think is right, cos there would definitely be better ways to do it. Ours are not the best, it’s just appropriate for us.
As such, I urge all of you to remember your roots and the people who’ve crossed your life and helped you.
Next issue: My Rant on the dinner with KELVIN HUI! Whoo hoo!
Focus on the great stuff dudes!
Cheers,
Ming Chern