You, Jermaine and the team deserve all the success you get.

As I said in my initial email to you, precious few people will even let you know about stuff like this. I’ve always appreciated folks who help me improve myself, and try to do the same for others whenever I can – and when they will let me

All success
Dr.Mani

I TRULY appreciate the reminder to think through everything, and not act too fast. My goals were obviously not to hurt anyone who wants to promote but even so, my actions were a bit flawed.

I’ve got to say though, it’s truly a pleasure working with people like “Mr. X” who do the right thing, and try their best to always be responsible.

He’s an inspiration to me!

Thank you for your continued support sir, and I truly thank you for keeping me on my toes… It means a lot to me!

-Eric

I’m amazed you took time out from what must be an INSANE time around the office with your launch exploding, to reply to this blog.

Yes, the ‘big launch’ I referred to was your ‘Nitty Gritty Marketing’ – and I did NOT mention it by name because I didn’t want this to have any adverse impact on your launch.

You see, your JV manager’s email is NOT the only one that sparked off this rant – it was just the proverbial ‘last straw’. This has been happening time and again over the last few months, and I finally decided to just get out and put my thoughts out for discussion.

Your response is a lesson in itself about dealing with such issues, and I appreciate and respect you more for what you just did, Jermaine. Everyone on their way up needs to study your approach and draw some lessons from it – thank you.

To extend that appreciation in a more positive vein, I’m going to post my initial email that went out to a segment of my list right here to the blog – and without any affiliate link, so readers can get to know what you’re offering and if they like, sign up to explore your resource center in more depth.

All success
Dr.Mani

You’re probably talking about my jv coordinator.

This was the one e-mail I didn’t see and I take full responsibility for its negative impact on you.

I just know deep down inside that its intentions were right. I think it was 5 words that redirected what I believe was the real purpose of the e-mail… “and you probably should too.” If he had to do it again, those words wouldn’t be in there.

Because the purpose wasn’t meant to mean “…and you should too.”

It was meant to say, “hey, you know how affiliate cookies work and since we’ve seen promos from this guy and that gal, you should probably get in on the fun too.” I think a few more sentences would have clarified this further.

I guess from his perspective, it would create urgency so that partners would think… “oh, I better get serious about this since people have already started” … rather than what has been discussed here.

And we’ve talked about this today after hearing of your disappointment with the e-mail.

Thanks for you initial support and there are no hard feelings here. Heck, I can’t wait to meet you .

All the best,
Mr. X

Thanks Dr Mani for sharing this, I’ve made a note of these tips in the “how to approach people for JV opportunities” file that says “read me before you start!!!”.

Which is something I’ll be doing shortly as part of the 20/20 challenge.