What Not To Do When A User Is Promoting Your Product Or Service: Try To Get Them To Sign Up AGAIN

Above is a conversation that I mentioned Republic Wireless in. I love engaging with companies on Twitter — especially active ones, but it’s always disappointing whenever they don’t remember who you are, or worse, don’t read your message correctly.

Maybe I don’t need to explain it in this post, but I was simply stating to Kelly that I would be open to trying a Windows Phone and hinting to RW that they should get one… they apparently skimmed my tweet and definitely didn’t look at the previous ones, or they wouldn’t have replied with what they said… telling me, an already current customer (which I feel my tweet to Kelly appropriately depicts me as), to try out their service.

The lesson is: read things twice before quickly responding. If you have a customer that’s halfway promoting you and halfway suggesting something to you… don’t try to recruit them, you’ve already done that once.

Just had this conversation with my friend when she sent me this. Pretty much sums it up.Me: just had one of those “OH CRAP” moments… leaning back on a chair. lol I’m always amazed at how scared you get when you have like… 2 feet, if that, to fall. Her: yeah, I hate it when that happens. And then when you don’t fall you feel like you’ve just survived this huge ordeal Me: Like you could conquer the world… then you come down from your high point and realize that you, in fact, were not hanging from a mountain side, but instead just sitting on a chair. DARN! Her: your life flashes before your eyes, your heart is beating fast… and you turn to the person next to you… “Dude! I almost just died!”
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Just had this conversation with my friend when she sent me this. Pretty much sums it up.

Me: just had one of those “OH CRAP” moments… leaning back on a chair. lol I’m always amazed at how scared you get when you have like… 2 feet, if that, to fall.

Her: yeah, I hate it when that happens. And then when you don’t fall you feel like you’ve just survived this huge ordeal

Me: Like you could conquer the world… then you come down from your high point and realize that you, in fact, were not hanging from a mountain side, but instead just sitting on a chair. DARN!

Her: your life flashes before your eyes, your heart is beating fast… and you turn to the person next to you… “Dude! I almost just died!”

Wow! Didn’t See THAT Coming…

This is a prime example of how people completely overreact without using their head and just assuming that, basically, people are out ‘hatin’ on ‘em. What a great attitude to have… that type of attitude will get you nowhere in life.

But anyways, let me explain this photo. This is not a friend of mine, but a friend of a friend, who’s photo I had commented on. Facebook notified me of this girl’s comment, so I thought I’d help. Apparently, she thought my remark was “F****ng rude” …which caught me quite off guard to say the least!

I reread my comment trying to think of how it might come across as “rude”, I didn’t get anywhere. So I decided to give her my opinion because apparently she already thought I was rude so how much worse could it get? I guess we’ll see…

If she does comment, I’m predicting two reactions and neither of them are probably going to be positive, despite my efforts. She either…

  1. Get angry due to embarrassment, realizing she was an idiot for jumping to such drastic conclusions without even considering any other outcome.

    OR

  2. Just call me rude again.

Neither would surprise me… and maybe even both will happen. This really is only the tip of the iceberg. I suppose there is a problem, like I pointed out in my reply to her, that people can adhere any “tone” they want to text when reading it.

For example, if I want a writer to sound dumb while reading their content, I can place that tone in my head while reading it and no matter how intelligent they might be or how thought out the content was, because of my perception, the premise(s) and conclusion of the content was “dumb” based on my views.

This is one reason I refuse to ever have serious conversations where conflict could result over chat: texting, email, IM, etc. At the very least: a phone call. Even better: a video call so they can also see facial expressions… And best yet: in person.

But honestly, we as a whole (and I’m talking about everyone — including myself), just jump to WAY to many conclusions without thinking things out. Whether it’s a huge topic or just something small like this. So I thought I’d point this out and use it as an example because it really is sad that people are like this and so insensitive to others. I honestly feel that how we think of ourselves is out we view others. If we dislike ourselves, we may feel that others are trying to condemn or antagonize us… thus interpreting what they say as that too even if they mean well and are just trying to help in some way.

Just my thoughts.

I found this Twitter conversation rather hilarious!  Charlie Todd, founder of Improv Everywhere, had a classic comeback. Made my day. Kidding aside though, why would you want to shut down Improv Everywhere? All they do is make people’s days. And those who it offends don’t enjoy life anyway so they already wouldn’t be happy… Improv Everywhere doesn’t hurt anything or anyone. It only brings good to this world and the people in it.So my message to you all who are offended… Shut up. Smile. And enjoy life. That’s all. Thanks :D And feel free to reblog if you agree.
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I found this Twitter conversation rather hilarious!  Charlie Todd, founder of Improv Everywhere, had a classic comeback. Made my day.

Kidding aside though, why would you want to shut down Improv Everywhere? All they do is make people’s days. And those who it offends don’t enjoy life anyway so they already wouldn’t be happy… Improv Everywhere doesn’t hurt anything or anyone. It only brings good to this world and the people in it.

So my message to you all who are offended… 

Shut up. Smile. And enjoy life. That’s all. Thanks :D

And feel free to reblog if you agree.

magicJack Refuses My Bellybutton and My Request

  • You are now chatting with 'Melina'
  • Your Issue ID for this chat is LTK43602045137X
  • Melina: Hello Aaron. My name is Melina. To better assist you, let me put you on hold while I read your previous chat/s. Thank you.
  • Melina: Thank you for waiting, Aaron.
  • Melina: I have checked it here and found out that the 5-year plan that you have purchased before was already applied on your magicjack device and it's not possible anymore to refund this.
  • Aaron Couch: Alright I understand and I know that is your regular policy, but I really don't need magicJack anymore and I would really be pleased if you could help me.
  • Melina: Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about this matter Aaron since it's not really possible for a refund on this since the plan was already applied on your magicJack and was already used as well.
  • Aaron Couch: I understand, but you could if you wanted to.
  • Melina: Unfortunately, it's not really possible even if we wanted to. There's really nothing more we can do about this for this was applied already on the magicJack device and this can no longer be altered or changed.
  • Aaron Couch: You can't just cancel my magicJack device and give me a refund for the years I haven't used it? I'll mail back the device.
  • Melina: Unfortunately, that's not really possible anymore Aaron even if you will return the device back to us. There's really nothing can be done about this.
  • Aaron Couch: But would you if I showed you my bellybutton?
  • Melina: What you are asking is not really possible anymore Aaron.
  • Aaron Couch: aawww maaan
  • Aaron Couch: I'm going to be honest, you really got my hopes up. I figured magicJack was a more reputable company than this. The product really isn't that great nor innovative. It was quite a mistake to fall for your gimmick. You're no scam, but you're about as close to one as you could be. I haven't been happy for quite a while, but I gave magicJack the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, I made the wrong decision in purchasing an additional 5 years.
  • Melina: I do understand you on this Aaron but I really do apologize but there's really nothing we can do about this for it is not really possible anymore for a refund.
  • Aaron Couch: OK thank you for your help.
  • Melina: You're welcome.

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