5 Bucks a Day

I’ve sold an awful lot of copies of 5 Bucks a Day and 5 Bucks a Day, Jr., and for that I’m very thankful and blessed.

It’s not often that I get an email from someone blasting me, but I got one yesterday, and thankfully it was someone who didn’t purchase the book. Here’s a part of the email that was significant:

If I have learned anything on the internet it is most people are peddling things they do not make money with unless they suck people into buying the information. So if your information and idea’s work so good why are you peddling the information? Easy answer money!!

The person was obviously looking for a reason to purchase, or he was looking for someone to dump on, and he probably didn’t expect me to write back to him. Most gurus won’t. Most gurus don’t even have a public email address that they monitor.

However, I’m not a guru. I’m a regular guy that worked hard and studied and caught some breaks. And lived to write about it.

So … I wrote back, in fact we had a couple long email exchanges, and what it comes down to is this person doesn’t trust internet marketers. I can’t say I’m surprised, I can’t say that I blame him. What I can say, though, and I did say, is that with a negative attitude, he had no business wishing for success, but it would never find him and slap him on the side of the head, he had to seek it out.

Here’s his reply to my first reply:

I do not have a negative attitude. What I have is an attitude that is sick and tired of being lied to so other people can make money from me, with something they know doesn’t work in the first place. Can you honestly say everything you bought was on the up and up?

Now, here’s the deal. First of all, I didn’t write my book, or set up my forum filled with all sorts of business ideas and reports because they didn’t work for me. The strategies that I teach do work for me, and they work for others. I also don’t worry about the fact that my readers and members would make money I would otherwise have made. There are billions of dollars in profits being made every year by Internet Marketers, and I’m not in any position to get in front of all the tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of different small niches that can be profitable.

So I don’t mind teaching people and helping people. It makes me feel good. When they give me testimonials or email me to thank me, it feeds my ego, I guess, and doesn’t everyone seek praise? I’m not immune to feeling good when people say nice things about me, even just buying the book several times a day. Or even just asking for help and trusting that I won’t use them to make a few bucks by telling them something to get an affiliate commission.

Now back to my email friend. In response to his last question, I labored long and hard over a reply that would make him understand where I was coming from. Here it is:

No, I can not honestly say everything I bought was on the up and up. But I can honestly say that I bought a lot of stuff, spent a lot of money, and every time I did I went in with the hope that it would deliver as promised, and gave it a fair chance. I didn’t go into it with the thought that the person was out to scam me. When the product honestly didn’t deliver a single shred of quality material, I asked for a refund if warranted.

Honestly, though, having said that, I rarely ask for refunds. My thought is that if something delivers a single idea that I can use, or twist to use, to make me more skillful at what I do, or help me make more income, it was worth its weight in gold. If I spend $97 and get a 100 page eBook, and there’s one paragraph that helps me get to where I want to go, it’s worth it to me.

You seem to be non believing of the sales page. To me that’s indicative of a negative attitude, but regardless, all I can say is that I know where I came from. I know what I went through. I know when the change in my thinking occurred. And I know what happened after that. I’ve put that into words, it’s totally my own writing, not outsourced on eLance like so many other eBooks are nowadays, and the result is a report that’s helped a lot of people. If I wasn’t so passionate about the subject and the possibilities, I wouldn’t be even bothering to type this long of an email to you, would I? I’m not that desperate for anyone’s money.

You can visit our members forum as a guest here:
http://5bucksaday.com/members/phpBB2/index.php

There are several subforums that are off limits to guests, of course, but you’ll find a vibrant community of people with similar goals and aspirations who respect the 5 Bucks a Day strategy, and who respect me. I consider them all friends, 800+ and growing every day. Feel free to look around, it’s only been up and running since December, but still there are a fair number of success stories, and I know from my emails that there are a lot more than haven’t been posted there. 90% of the members, maybe more, are just what we call “lurkers”, people who read but don’t post. That’s not a bad thing, but it’s so frustrating when I know those people have so much to contribute if they would just come out into the open and not be shy.

As I said, the testimonials on the sales page are real and were freely given, I have dozens more that aren’t printed on the sales page. Some people tell me the strategy has changed their life, gave them hope, got them straightened out. And more.

Some people have asked for refunds because it wasn’t for them. Nothing is for everyone. All I ask my readers is that they come in with a positive attitude and willing to take the action steps necessary to make the strategy work for them. Nothing difficult. Nothing mystical. But negative thinking that I’m out to steal the reader’s money isn’t going to do the reader any good.

It won’t hurt me. If someone spends $47 or $7.77, then asks for a refund, I broke even, so no problem. Very few ask for refunds, but out of maybe 2000 readers, maybe 3% have, which is very low for this industry considering a high percentage of those refunds are fraud, mostly from 3rd world countries where people tend to buy with no intent to do anything other than download and then get a refund. In the main target market of U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia, refunds are almost non-existent for my book.

That should say something.

In any event, I wish you nothing but the best, whatever you do.

Why did I take so much time last night to communicate with someone who probably won’t buy my book anyway, because apparently he’s been burned by someone else, or more than just one someone?

Because I care. I have a passion about what I write about.

That’s why I wrote the book.

That’s why I set up the forum and read every post made there every day, and reply to many.

That’s why I keep this blog going.

That’s why I wrote this specific post.

To each their own. Some people distrust others. Some people care enough to do their best.

I prefer the latter. How about you?

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