Tough Question Tuesday: What Was Your Most Embarrassing Moment in I.M?
So, what was YOUR most embarrassing moment/mistake while doing business online?
Mine involved unknowingly allowing spam get to thousands of subscribers over the course of several hours, all while I was fast asleep. I had a rude awakening when Linda Stacy called me at about 6 in the morning. Thank goodness for Linda!
I'll tell the whole story in the morning. I caught myself something yucky on the plane from Atlanta...so I gotta lie down. I'll have more details on BigSeminar too.
For now - tell us about your most embarrassing moment/mistake. Don't be shy!
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I guess my most embarrassing moment was a few years back when I was a contractor. I was working on a document for my client onsite and apparently had the printer configured wrong. I was getting ready to leave for the day and needed to print. I couldn't for the life of me get the printer to work. After several attempts, I gave up and went home.
That next morning, I received a call from a senior manager asking if he could kill my print job. Apparently, I had my printer set up for a different floor in the building. The print job somehow kept repeating itself overnight and had printed over 2,000 pages of garbled junk before it ran out of paper! (Poor trees!)
Anyway, I wanted to go hide!
I think my most embarrassing moment was when I released my 1 copy of my ebook Journey to Joy: http://www.reallifecoaching.net/journeytojoy.shtml
I was so excited to get the sales page up and the download page up and the ebook out there that I rushed and set up an affiliate program at paydotcom and launched the ebook happily. All went well and a few sales. I was THRILLED then as the sales rolled in so did the emails from the buyers pointing out typos in my ebook :( I felt like such a Dope!!!!
I had to pull the ebook down, totally re-proof it and then set it up again...LOL
I learned a HUGE Lesson... don't rush it, after I proof something have someone else proof it :)
Great thread Alice :) I am literally lol at myself
That's funny, Kim. I'm sure I've done something like that before. When you're in a huge office, they always put the printer so far away and there are so many printers, it's bound to happen!
Aurelia, it happened to me too and we should definitely do some proofreading, but there will always be mistakes. I think there's some statistics out there on the average number of errors in a published (you know REAL publishing...LOL) book and it's pretty high.
So for my story...
Years ago, I hosted my email list on Yahoo Groups. For some reason, I had it set as a discussion group (there was a reason...something to do with visibility of the list, but I don't recall now), but you could only post if I approved. I only broadcast through it and only occasionally did anyone try to post to the group. In those cases, I didn't approve those messages.
Well, as I was about to embark on a vacation, I thought it was a good idea to put an autoresponse on my personal email to say, "I'll be away from the office...yada yada yada."
This happened to be the email address set as the administrator on the Yahoo Group, so all it took was one "yahoo" to try to spam the group and with my autoresponse, I approved the message. See, all I had to do was reply to a message to approve it...but I didn't consider that when I set up my autoresponse.
So then one spammy scammy message goes through to my entire list. A few people get mad and hit reply (of course, those messages are being sent to the group because my autoresponse was quietly approving them as I slept) and gave the spammer a piece of their mind.
Then some piped up to my defense, saying it must be some mistake. "Stop replying or it goes to everyone," they said...thus, contributing to the problem. ;-)
Then some saw an opportunity to spam and posted their business opportunities, etc.
*SIGH*
Poor Linda saw this happening when she woke up early in Massachusetts, which is 3 hours ahead of my time. Finally, she decided it was time to wake me up and put an end to the craziness.
And LOL...I did. I lost a few hundred people to my list that day and lesson learned.
I actually can't think of anything off the top of my head.
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