| The man who appeared as an interview
guest on The American Voice Broadcast two years ago has now contacted
The American Voice and and stated, "I'm
flat broke" and then asked "how
many LEGALLY BLIND series have
you sold and what were expenses and profit? How much are you
going to pay me
for
all those you have sold already?"
We responded in part by
stating, "The American
Voice owns
ALL American Voice Broadcasts." and
"
I understand “flat broke” very
intimately. What we can offer you, as a
guest, is free exposure to a
national/worldwide audience and the recordings
of those broadcasts. You can then
market those recordings through your own
organization. Furthermore, if American
Voice Radio chooses to market those
recordings also, you further benefit
from any contacts, potential clients,
that those marketing efforts yield."
We
had hoped this concluded this misunderstanding, however, the man
continued in another e-mail, "I have never
received even one paying client from your radio station." we
view this in the same light as placing a classified ad in the newspaper
and not receiving any calls and demanding your money back from the
newspaper, perhaps nobody wants what you advertised.
The
guest continues, "If you are not willing to compensate me
fairly...at least 50/50..."
I somewhat lost my temper when I responded, "Let
me get this straight, I supply you with four hours of free airtime and
spend my time interviewing you, I post your seminar schedule on my
website for over two months, I design, print and mail out a direct
mailer for your Medford seminar, I buy blank cassettes, I buy cassette
album cases, I spend hours editing out three hours of repetition, I
spend hours making duplicates, I have art done for the album and the
cassette labels, I package it all, I have ads designed for the newspaper
and internet and provide the space in both mediums, I pay for the
envelope and the mailing and you feel entitled to at least 50%?"The
guest continues, "...then
I now request and demand that you stop selling any taped interviews of
me without my permission from the date of this E-Mail
transmission."
He
begins threats, "If you fail to do
so, it won't cost me more than $150.00 bucks court filing fee ...
to get an Oregon Judge to sign an Injunction with a Court ordered
Discovery of ALL request's to purchase "MY TAPE" of
"me" that came over your web site which is all
traceable." This man feels that because he was a guest being
interviewed on a national/worldwide broadcast that any tapes of that
show, The American Voice Broadcast hosted by Francis Steffan are his???
So, it is not surprising that he states, "The bottom line is
that you are making money off of me and that you need me and that I
don't need you."
Apparently
that is not the bottom line. I have no problem dumping a tape set that
doesn't sell...it is NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
The
bottom line is that he presented a few good ideas or tactics on the tape
set but it did not sell very well at all. The bottom line is that he is
more trouble than he is worth. The bottom line is that considering the
time, material and poor sales of this tape set it is not worth even one
more e-mail.
So, I will end this by repeating that,
"The purpose of being a guest on any radio broadcast is to gain
exposure. We
want our guests to benefit from any
marketing we do." "What
we can offer you, as a
guest, is free exposure to a
national/worldwide audience and the recordings
of those broadcasts. You can then
market those recordings through your own
organization. Furthermore, if American
Voice Radio chooses to market those
recordings also, you further benefit
from any contacts, potential clients,
that those marketing efforts
yield.
"I do
not appreciate people trying to shake me down for money, 'flat broke or
not.' The tape set is NO LONGER AVAILABLE."
From Francis
Steffan
American Voice Newspaper/Radio
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