My Pet Peeve
OK. This is something that I have to write about. It’s a pet peeve of mine.
If someone introduces themselves to you as Christine, signs all emails to you as Christine or was introduced to you by someone else as Christine, DO NOT CALL HER CHRIS!!!
Your goal in MLM/Network Marketing is to create relationships. If you don’t pay attention to how people want you to address them you are not going to be able to create relationships.
For example, I introduce myself and sign my posts and emails as Roxanne. If I know you I may sign my emails as Rox. You may call me either Roxanne or Rox if I have signed my name that way in an email to you. YOU MAY NOT CALL ME ROXY unless you know me well. There are a few people who I allow to call me Roxy. If the only contact you have had with me has been with the name Roxanne, call me Roxanne. If I meet someone and I’m introduced as Roxanne and they call me Rox, that ticks me right off. However, if I’ve known someone for a while and they call me Rox, that’s OK. When you shorten someone’s name, it implies familiarity. If you have never talked to me, you are not familiar with me enough to call me anything but Roxanne. If you give someone a nickname, it implies familiarity. Don’t do it unless you have created a relationship with them. I have a friend who calls me RoxStarr. He can get away with that. However, if someone who just met me tried it, I would be upset.
Some people intentionally shorten the names of the people they are talking to. These people are attempting to create a FALSE sense of familiarity. It will backfire on you. You end up looking like a slick car salesman and people shy away from you. Don’t do it.
Once you know someone and have a relationship with them, you can probably call them whatever you want, however, if you’ve just met someone, call them by the name they used when they introduced themselves to you. Or the name they were introduced to you as. Do not shorten their name unless you ask what THEY prefer to be called.
My email address begins with mommyroxy. But DON’T call me Mommy. That is ridiculous. I had someone the other day who called and said “Is Mommy there?” I said no. My Mommy is in Montana. My name - Roxanne - is plastered all over everything I write on the internet. There is no excuse for not knowing my name. Simply pay attention.
If someone signs their emails to you as Judith and calls you and says “This is Judith” don’t call them JUDY!
If someone signs their emails to you as Ronald and calls you and says “This is Ronald” don’t call them RONNY!
If someone signs their emails to you as Reginald and calls you and says “This is Reginald” don’t call them REGGIE!
If someone signs their emails to you as Melissa and calls you and says “This is Melissa” don’t call them MISSY!
I think you get the point.
YOU Deserve Success!!
~Roxanne Green~








