{"id":941,"date":"2011-08-13T17:23:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T17:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2013-07-16T01:10:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T22:10:04","slug":"easily-offended-internet-business-relation-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/easily-offended-internet-business-relation-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Easily offended ? &#8211; Internet business relation case study"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-942 alignleft lazyload\" title=\"easily_offended\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"464\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended.jpg 374w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended-288x400.jpg 288w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended-105x146.jpg 105w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended-36x50.jpg 36w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended-54x75.jpg 54w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 334px, 334px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 334px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 334\/464;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-942 alignleft\" title=\"easily_offended\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended.jpg 374w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended-288x400.jpg 288w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended-105x146.jpg 105w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended-36x50.jpg 36w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/easily_offended-54x75.jpg 54w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 334px, 334px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>Are you easily offended?<\/h1>\n<h1>Have you offended anyone in an online business relation ?<\/h1>\n<p>Simple questions, right? Well, if you read this you probably answered Yes or No to the above or maybe you&#8217;re just curious :)<\/p>\n<p>With all the perks on internet it is easily to get over some of the most obvious downsides like the one in discussion here &#8211; business relationship communication. I for one always try to talk wt least once with all the Xtreme Freelance clients, either by Skype or other means but surely that&#8217;s not always possible. Even so, there is no deny it&#8217;s much harder to know and have a business relation without actually meeting the person. That&#8217;s because we rely on many more factors when judging a person or relation than merely talk or writing.<\/p>\n<p>But this is what we have when we try to make a living using the online world. I am happy with all what I&#8217;ve accomplished in my business and relations in this way but sometime there&#8217;s a harsh reminder of the limits. So here is what happened to me recently &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First of all, you need to know English is only my second language.That said, I love it and I use it everyday sometimes more than my primary language. I have tons of American and other English speaking online and offline friends so the following was new to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Recently I launched a new site &#8211; <a title=\"WP Safelist\" href=\"http:\/\/wpsafelist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP Safelist <\/a>. During the launch a former client and friend referred me to a few business owners that were supposedly interested to help me promote WP Safelist and my upcoming big hit :) WP List Mailer. As a sign of appreciation I promised all of them that I will keep them informed and also upgraded their accounts at WP Safelist to the maximum level\u00a0 &#8211; a 1 year premium membership with all access. Now here comes the funny part&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Business relation mayhem<\/h3>\n<p>One of the business owners, let&#8217;s name him X started to send me emails complaining about all sort of things &#8211; all of them were wrong or false or just plain weird. Like when he asked about his referral link AFTER he obviously had been using it since he had a few signups under his account. I didn&#8217;t complained and politely replied to each of his questions and remarks, even if some were downright offensive like &#8220;<em>Perhaps because English is not your 1st Language and you are not Western raised, you do not understand<\/em>.&#8221; &#8211; this sounds pretty much like &#8220;You&#8217;re stupid because you were born somewhere outside US&#8221; to me&#8230;That&#8217;s from the same guy telling me &#8220;<em>I find your layout and instruction difficl<\/em>&#8220;. Now, some of you would know that launching a completely new business model it&#8217;s not something easy to do. Sometimes things are just not falling into place easily and OTOH it takes time to optimize each and every bit on a new membership site. I do however provided easy access for all members and not only to a manual that explains in plain English &#8211; with images &#8211; every little bit they need to know. That one could be improved too but I&#8217;m not aiming for instant perfection nor I demand it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, to get to the final chapter &#8211; I sent to X the one and only semi-promotional email. This was an announcement for some former clients and a few other interested parties regarding the launch they were interested in the first place &#8211; nothing to sell directly, just a link to a post containing affiliate info and a limited JV promotion. I admit I did 2 mistakes I don&#8217;t do usually &#8211; I just added all interested email contacts to one bulk email and some that were not in my contact list to CC field though I intended to use the BCC. I admit that&#8217;s not a good practice and I don&#8217;t do this usually. I send individual emails to everyone normally but this time I\u00a0 simply didn&#8217;t had enough time&#8230;and also clicked the CC instead of BCC&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In about 5 minutes I receive an email from X stating that practically I&#8217;m &#8220;<em>a SPAMMER and that is what you just became<\/em>&#8220;. I immediately replied and apologized\u00a0 and tried to explain the situation but it was a dead end. I am a big boy and I can support a honest critique and I always try to make amends when\u00a0 I do make mistakes. This was however more than I could accept so I replied politely again that we should terminate our business relation which is over in my book.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of this story &#8211; I do believe we need more tolerance in this cases. What it can be a simple &#8220;sorry&#8221; situation can be a huge deal online unless we really try to understand the other party. If you&#8217;re not willing to do this the probably the internet is not the best way for you to make a living, as unfortunately for you, we are in it regardless where we were born.<\/p>\n<p>Unless we ALL do our little part we can expect the online world to be a very dark and shady place.This is something I would not like&#8230;Please share your thoughts and experiences in the comments<\/p>\n<p>Until then, if you&#8217;re one that is too easily offended, <a href=\"http:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-943 lazyload\" title=\"terminatedrelationship\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship.jpg\" width=\"424\" height=\"44\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship.jpg 424w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship-400x42.jpg 400w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship-260x27.jpg 260w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship-50x5.jpg 50w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship-150x16.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 424px, 424px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 424px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 424\/44;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-943\" title=\"terminatedrelationship\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship.jpg\" width=\"424\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship.jpg 424w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship-400x42.jpg 400w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship-260x27.jpg 260w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship-50x5.jpg 50w, https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/terminatedrelationship-150x16.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 424px, 424px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you easily offended? Have you offended anyone in an online business relation ?<\/p>\n<p>Simple questions, right? Well, if you read this you probably answered Yes or No to the above or maybe you&#8217;re just curious :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,163,158,159,160,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtremefreelance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}