People that don’t respond to your communications are of three types typically:

1.  They have too many problems themselves that they don’t have time, don’t check their voice mail or email. They are barely together and are barely surviving. Probably not someone you want to do business with.

I know one guy that lives in his office suite, doesn’t answer his phone for weeks at a time and is rather proud of having his voice mail system full so people can’t even leave a voice mail. And his email? He goes in every couple of months and deletes everything. Not really worth any time pursuing business with him, complete waste of time.

2. Then there is the group I call unprofessional. They see your email but don’t read it or read it and don’t respond. They are not interested and instead of replying back just telling you that, they just ignore you. When in person or over the phone and you ask a question they won’t answer.

They will change the subject or if pinned down simply just not talk. I’ve seen this a number of times. I’m not a big fan of this style of negotiating. It’s so unprofessional and business doesn’t work with unprofessional people.

I was renegotiating a contract with a client a number of years ago in person. I asked a simple question about the agreed on installment payment and he wouldn’t answer and wouldn’t look at me. After 30 minutes of one of the weirdest conversations I’ve ever had, I left. I tried to renegotiate for two more months with him and didn’t succeed.

That is when I realized why. Why would I want to do business with these types of people. So I learned that no response answers simply mean NO. It maybe no I’m too busy or I have too much going on in my life or it could be hell no. You may never know since they are not communicating. But, does it matter it’s not going to work out in business.

3. A new type for me is the outwardly professional that is successful but has no help to check their voice mail or email so they simply don’t. They have horrible service and will even have people complain on social media about it but they are successful and ignore them. They can easily afford help but they don’t. They also have the opinion that not responding ever or for weeks is cool.

These types I believe have no excuse for acting this way. I once asked a big Internet Marketer about a joint venture deal and he responded in minutes himself that he didn’t have time to consider it. I respected that. Some other successful people but not nearly as big just don’t answer.  Even in person if you ask they’ll say yes but they don’t mean it and once they are not physically in front of you it’s impossible to get in touch with them as they go back to their protected bubble at home. These type of Internet Marketers need to get professional quick or they will go out of business. The days of not caring about your clients on the Internet are over and people will not tolerate it anymore.

Now a few times I’ve meet someone a year or two later and they would tell me why they didn’t respond. Many of those times it was because they just were stressed out and couldn’t handle anymore at that time. Some have even become clients. So never give up on people but don’t waste too much time pursuing these types of people.

So my rule is to followup three times with people. On the third try I tell them this is my last time that I’ll be leaving them a message. I then will contact them a few months later once and trickle on them occasionally. It could be months or years before they recover from their stresses to think straight or they can afford to do business with you. Don’t put so much pressure on them that they hate you. Be nice and respect their no response and move on.

Thankfully most people are not like these people. Most people are upfront and frank about things which makes doing business much easier. Just understand the no response types and move forward with the people that want to do business with you.

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Product Camp Austin 2009, photo by BWhichard

I spoke at Product Camp here in Austin on Saturday.  If you follow me on Twitter (@EagleChris) you saw that I streamed video during some of it. Wifi was very busy with 400+ people tweeting and blogging so at times it didn’t work for me.

I gave a presentation of Twitter For Small Business.  The biggest question was why small businesses should even use twitter. Many feel it’s a big waste of time.

I spend about 30 minutes a day on Twitter.  I use it as a one front end to my marketing funnel.  I don’t make any money directly with Twitter and I don’t know anybody that does. It’s a front end to get people to know you. They then get on a call or webinar you are doing. Or your blog RSS or newletter.  They get to know you more and some of them with buy a product from you.  Twitter is just a create front end and I choose to invest some everyday on it because of the phenomenal growth in social media.  I also enjoy social media. To me it’s a cocktail party where I get to meet a lot of interesting people. Some will get to know me better and some of them will buy my products, but my attitude is to have fun and give out interesting information.  I summed up my social media philosophy at TwitterForSmallBusiness.com in a free report.

The presentation by Jonas Lamis on how he uses Google Adwords to test a business idea was received well. I’m been doing this technique for years and you do really learn quick whether your idea has a market very fast, like a day. Jonas make a great point that this is good for discovery but it’s enough for deep analysis. And nothing happens until you start selling something. That is the real proof.

At another session I learned why link building is still a lot of work.  Check out hubspot.com and buzzstream.com.  I just ran the website grader from hubspot.com on this website and got a great score of 97.9 out of 100. I’m very happy with that.

I’ll be back at the next Product Camp.  Check your local area if they have a product camp near you. It’s great to have a group come together and brainstorm together.

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