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April 19, 2005
Online IBO Lesson
By QBlog in
Welcome IBOs! Today I present another lesson in Basic Online Communication Skills, absolutely free of charge. Sounds too good to be true eh? Where's the catch? Well, I do ask one small favor in return for this valuable education — but we'll get to that in a moment.
So, gather around, pull up a chair and let's get started! If you're an IBO who lacks common sense and the ability to think rationally, then attendance is highly recommended (read mandatory).
LESSON: When (not if) you visit a website (especially blogs) that does not gleefully sing the praises of your beloved "biz" DO NOT...
- ...behave like a Kool-Aid swilling zealot determined to "convert" the site author with phrases like, "your a looser" and "get a life!"
- ...write a 4,000 word explanation of why your "biz" is the greatest opportunity and why everyone else will spend retirement eating dog food and collecting lint.
- ...claim that YOUR Quixtar group is different than the ones with problems.
- ...blame "negative" websites for your crappy business. If your business sucks it isn't because of "negative" websites, it's because your business sucks.
To continue this lesson, I've culled two examples from the Internet. Both examples are blogs that post responses directed at IBOs who read and replied to a previous post. See how that works?
From Moment Of Zen - To The Quixtar faithful... we find the following excerpt:
And therein lies the most grating part of the Quixtar phenomenon. The cynicism its caused in me, the lack of faith in other human beings, the complete inability I now have to let another person have his say without me being biased almost from the start.
For those of you that will respond and say that's an issue with me -- fine I agree, it is an issue with me. But when I get repeatedly approached by people ( I am not making this number up -- 23 in the last month - that's an average of once daily!) I begin to feel like its more of a pattern not a 'once in a while' occurrence.
The second part to this is, I would not have this problem if they were to be straight up with me, but they approach the topic from such tangential paths that its impossible for me to believe that the conversation was not started with this agenda, this motive in mind. (more)
And of then there's this profane and admittedly offensive response from "B-Toad" who now revels in his newfound role of Dreamstealer. From The Toad's Topic - Dreamstealer (NSFW):
I have been inspired by a few comments left on my blog. It appears to me that most of my traffic has been generated because of the post I wrote about "Pyramid-schemes and cults." This saddens me; I really wanted to piss off a more diverse sample of the community. I didn't stay sad for very long, it suddenly came to me that most of the Cro-Magnons that responded to the Quixtar post fit into most of the other categories I write about. B-toad is pleased. (more)
See what happens! And the curious thing is this happens repeatedly. A few IBOs discover online comments that they don't like and then respond in a very curious and ineffective manner. A manner that leaves most observers wondering, "What's up with that weird bunch of Quixtar goons?"
Now for the favor. All I ask of you, dear IBO, is to stop acting like a moron. Pretty simple request right? There are plenty of IBOs who grasp this concept and behave quite rationally. Unfortunately, most of them aren't among the Quixtar leadership so you'll need to look elsewhere for rational IBO role models. Maybe I should start some sort of IBO accreditation process in which IBOs who pass get certified as "normal" and those who fail get labeled as brainwashed freaks! There's an idea.
Class dismissed!
Comments
hello my name is joshua and i am 15.
a year ago i was so inspired by the ibo
tribe that my older best friend owally kingsley taught me ishan.
i hope to be a translator for the ibo tribe so
if you could to make this happen for me is to send me some ishan or ibo words/phrases
hello my ibo friends my name is josh and
have went to africa on a trip to feed starving kids. who inspired me was OWALLY KINGSLEY!!!! and by talking to you maybe i will be inspired again....
thankyou for your time
sincerly,joshua allen dugan
Posted by: josh | April 28, 2005 3:34 PM