Don't trust Johnathan Dodds

The manner in which you get paid is set up by you and only you. You have to make your deal going in and be clear on how you expect to be paid for your services. In this economy, or in any economy it's better to go net 30. You'll get a lot of business that will owe you a lot of money and if they don't pay their bill you can sell off your debt to a collection agency and still get paid. The bottom line is, you'll have a lot of money coming in every week and that's still owed to you creating wealth. And that's how you get a business going. Not scraping and clawing to be paid every little nickel you're owed before you move on to the next job. Make it effortless to do business with you not a pride swallowing mission.

We're still defining the relationship and you never said anything about up front payment or how you bill out. As I explained to you before about how our approved vendor process worked there wasn't a problem. I have over 1000 manufacturers and 100,000 items that I sell. You are one of 3 programmers I have actaully taken the time to meet personally out of at least 300. And as I've told you, the web isn't where I do 99.9% of my business yet.

Whoever is giving you the advice on how to push me so you can get yours needs to leave you alone before you turn 50 and wish you would have just taken a chance on a lot of things in your life that will simply pass you by. And YES, a lot of those chances you take will not work out. And that's ok. But a lot of the chances you take will work out. If you deny one opportunity, the oppportunity Gods will deny you 3.

This advice or tactic you are using is teaching you how to run off a great opportunity for you to make yourself potentionally millions. NO... it's not a guarantee. YES... it's a gamble with a proven 10 year track record. AND YOU NEVER said you'd do anything for a percentage of the web site so YES, it's still hourly until we enter in to a more formal agreement.

The guys that make their deals payoff are the guys who worked through all of the bull shit and problems and didn't complain while putting together a nest egg for the rest of their life. Stop getting frustrated by your learning curve. It will all come together. There's no set method for success. You simply have to go for it and never hold anything back. This is one of those opportunities that you got lucky to stumble in to by chance. Make no mistake about it, I've run millions through my company. And I'm not interested in anyone else but you. Mark my words, anyone you tell about working with www.officesupplystore.com is thinking how can they get a piece of your action. ADVICE: don't let anyone muddy the water for you.

For someone who knows the web so well, I'm surprised you haven't been able to pull up all of the different versions of my site. When you tell somebody that you want to build their dream, and I've built many, you better have a magic wand and it better work. To be quite frank, I'm going to be paying you to learn on the job. At $30 an hour, I'm being kind.

If you get to put me on your resume, that takes you from a whoever you are to a who the fuck is this guy. I've got homeless guys that have come through my company who are now millionairs. That's what I do: make people so forgive me for believing in you more than you believe in yourself. I know what you're capable of and I promise you, you're not even close to hitting your stride unless you want to just get by for the rest of your life.

Do your research on me. Your own personal web site doesn't show me that you can generate revenues on the web or build sites that I'd want to look at for more than a click. This is a cinematically dynamic art form and your work is in a visual medium. You have to grab your audience in 3 seconds and keep them for 30 seconds. Your site has to close the deal, and based on your last email, closing is something you think only doors can do. The user is the Conductor and all of the products on your web site are the musicians. Together, they have to make music.

When I ask you if you can generate hits and business for a web site, you say, that's not my area of expertise. WTF? I don't need Staples shipping policies. They suck. I've been doing this business for 10 years with my own warehouses. We kick their ass head to head. Our customers love what we do and how we do it... our methoid of doing business is magic and nobody can compete with us one on one. I don't want to do anything like Staples or Office Depot who are closing down stores in record numbers. It's not because of the lack of sales.

Programmers out there that is making the big bucks understands the web from creation to how to make a site make money. If I can't sell you on the office supply business, I don't want you working on my site. If you are going to close yourself off now, it's not going to get any better. Being able to realize anyone's dream means you can't be a one trick pony and be closed minded like you are beginning to portray yourself to be. You have a long way to go in the world of WOW. Working with a guy like me is definitely a step up for you. What you are able to deliver right now is very elementary from a dynamic standpoint. For you to say it's all just time and money says a lot. You and your client's only limitation should be their imagination. I don't need to have a web site to make my money. I'm tired of the programmers who come in and jam up the site hitting me for more money to do simple code. I took you for someone who was straight up and did an honest days work.

I'm not trying to run you off, but if you're going to work with me, you've got to be realistic. For the most part I like you. All of my professional career I have had to take talent from it's infancy and develop it in to a product that could be bought and sold for the highest price. You can make a lot of money in this industry but not the way you're coming at me.

Never sacrifice long term image for short term profits. I realize you may tell me to go phuck myself after this email but I'm not interested in moving forward unless we can tell each other to go phuck ourselves and still come up with a money making product 2nd to none. I do beleive you can deliver, but it's going to take my input and your sophistication. Both of which are valuable elements.

Hope we can still work together.