Yeah, you are right, sometimes I get emails in my mailbox, and instead of trying to convince me to click on their Links, they make me delete them forever even I often unsubscribed them, because of how they present themselves so proudly humiliating others.

Wow, I can’t believe the company thinks it is ok that their affiliate manager is talking to their affiliates that way. Very strange.

Maybe they haven’t been paying their “brass tax” and have to make lots of money today to repay the Brass Tax Man

I am amazed. Michael was just reading his email and mentioned xxx company is up to their latest promo exactly when I read Nicole’s tweet. I said does it happen to say and read the excerpt from the email at Nicole’s blog to him. Yep, sure enough. When I pressed further he’s like I don’t know – he marked it as spam and moved on. Not a very favorable response and I can’t be positive but probably not one xxx company is looking for. Un-beeliev-able!

SMARTEN UP NICOLE! jk, lol

Wow I think everyone has said everything you can about this. I guess that forgot that money isn’t everything to some people? :S

Well thank you but no thank you! I know this is an employee/assistant but, if this is how the owner teaches I suspect they don’t have many happy customers either.

Direct and to the point is totally different from whatever you want to call that email they sent. Me, I call it out and out disrespectful and RUDE!

ROFL Too funny!

Good grief! Sounds like ‘bootcamp’ tactics. I’d boot them in their ‘computer butts’.

Thanks for respecting your readers – even if this company didn’t.

Reminds me of the time I unsubscribed from another marketer’s list because he said “I command you to..” (and he wasn’t joking.)

lol! Love it!!!

maybe there is a “brass tax” that I don’t know about, going to hide my brass now!

Wow. Their response was just as insulting.

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A few of you were offended at the capital letters, bold type and directness. I apologize if you are one of these people. In today’s economy and business world, sometimes it takes such directness to create results.

It takes getting rid of all of the flowery writing and glitz and glitter and just getting down to the brass tax. Any of you who have been through one of (removed)’s programs knows that this is how (removed) teaches…. direct and to the point. It is not meant to be offensive. It is meant to attract attention to the bottom line.

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Brass tacks “usually means clearing out confusing details and finding out the real facts about something.”

And, there is a huge difference between “directness” and just plain insulting.

If the “results” they wanted were to lose an interested JV partner, then their directness sure worked.

Nicole,
That just makes you the bigger person. All you need is people tramping on your site looking for their kind of crappy service.

Nicole
I made a decision a while ago. I only mention companies by name when I’m complimenting them. If I’m complaining about them I refuse to give them any more publicity!!!

Considering it was an employee/consultant (their JV manager) who sent the email, I will be polite as far as outing them.

If it were the owner – I wouldn’t be so kind.

I asked them to remove me from their leads list, their customer list, and their affiliate list, including both my email and phone number.

Good riddance! Now to make sure to remove past references to them that might be on my blog.

I think they are very lucky that you are not naming them. The more we all ‘out’ bad practices, the more the industry will self-regulate (or at least realize that people only respond to certain communication)
Go Nicole!

You have got to be kidding me!!!
An email like this would make me not ever want to promote any of their stuff ever again.

It baffles me how anyone would even come up with the idea to write an email like this. They either must have had a really bad day or they are desperate for attention. Either way, not a good fit for my readers.