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Old 10-19-2007, 03:44 PM
Martinscholes Martinscholes is offline
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Default Re: Do you have any stupid clients?

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Originally Posted by jgarner View Post
"Stupid" implies not the lack of understanding or slow to learn. Simply not knowing isn't stupid at all.

This sounds more like a forgetful individual. Hell even I forget to do some of the most basic tasks from time to time. In a larger environment, it's easy to overlook some of the simple things, regardless of their importance.

More importantly though, I want to make sure that I didn't mean to sound as if I were attacking you for your opinion at all. I just think "stupid" was a bit harsh. In my line of work, I deal with a great deal of unknowing people. And that isn't their fault.
What I actually said after several hours of hard work and 1/4 of emails bounced back was: "you stupid :censored:"

I think I was too harsh. Maybe I should have said: "Are some of your customers making fundamental errors that are going to put them out of business?"

It was very frustrating. Because I knew that if my emails were bouncing back, then so were the emails of potential customers.

Because many of them used the email address sales@ which means they ain't getting any sales!

And one person who replied with the information I wanted has already got a great story in the magazine promoting their farmhouse made chocolates.

And HE used either a Hotmail account or Yahoo, I forget which, now.

Last edited by Martinscholes : 10-19-2007 at 03:46 PM. Reason: adding bits I missed off
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