An offer dropped

Recently, I received an email from the John T P, from the much popular JohnTP.com.

It said if I would be interested to guest blog on his domain, since he is not well.

I thought it’s a good offer as more than any other benefit, JohnTP.com was a pretty popular blog and getting in to it’s writer’s board would definitely mean something good to me.

How John sees it is like this - I can get a free PR 6 backlink from the articles I’m writing. Well, that’s his pitch so I didn’t think twice about it.

Meanwhile the searchcamp came up and I was not available for the two days.

John had also asked me to send him an article or two through mail. I don’t know why he insisted it because he already have seen my articles on dailySEOblog as well as Bloggingtips.com. Now, I replied back to John saying if it’s OK to send him the articles after the even to which he agreed.

Okay, long story short - I did not accept the offer.

Reasons
I don;t think John was good in his emails. Good in the sense, the way he talked to me sounded very bossy (unlike Kevin at Bloggingtips.com, who’s a really good chap!) and did not really ignited the passion in me.

It wounded to me more like he is trying to do me a favor.

I could’ve easily taken up the offer and got the PR 6 link to this blog (which incidentally have very few incoming links).

But the moral of the story here is that, when talking to people over e-mail, you got to be very cautious and polite. Don’t you think so? I’m not talking about listening to every shit the other guy is talking but you have to be polite and firm at the same time. Just the right kind of etiquette required to communicate well to others.

See the email transcript between me and John below. I think John needs some improvements in his email etiquettes seriously. Nothing personal John. hope you take it in the right spirits.

JOHN 

Hi Mani,

How are you? I am currently looking for guest bloggers for JohnTP.com as I am having fever. By guest blogging on my blog you get a free PR 6 backlink, new readers and traffic for your blog

If you are interested, please write one or more posts on Bogging or SEO and email it to me at this email address.

Thanks,

JohnTP

ME

Hi John,
I’m keeping well. Sorry to hear that you are having fever. Wish you a speedy recovery.
Can you please let me know if you are you looking for guest blogging for a particular amount of time or not?
I’d be happy to accept the offer, John.

Best,
Mani

JOHN

Hi Mani,
I am currently looking for guest posts until I recover from my fever, I may also post if I can.
Regards,
JohnTP

ME

Sounds Great John,
I’m flying to the Searchcamp, Chennai early morn tommorow. So shall I post the article to you by sunday?
If you’ll agree to it, I think everything else is OK.

JOHN

Sunday is fine

ME

Sounds cool John.

John, Since I was at the Searchcamp, Chennai (and they had a broken wifii there) I couldnt write to you. I was thinking if you’d take a loot at the articles i write on dailyseoblog as well as blogging tips, so that you know what my style is and if its acceptable to you? Makes sense right?

ME

Hi John,
I have the post ready. Please let me know how you’d like me to go about it.
Sent it to you or access the dashboard?
Best,
Mani

JOHN

Hi Mani,
Send it via email.
Regards,
JohnTP

ME

Hi John,
Many thanks for the offer.
But I don’t think I’ll be taking up this offer at the moment.
I appreciate your efforts in contacting me.
Best,
Mani

What are your thoughts on it?

UPDATE
I think this has gone a bit personal and I seriously did not want it to be. If you think so, please shout!

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