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Hey,
This is just something I've been reflecting on because I've had a streak of clients that I've had to reject recently simply because don't speak good English/don't know how to navigate my site. Now I definitely don't need my clients to speak perfect English, but I've been getting some enquiries where the English is so broken, I can only recognise that they want x date and x time. With regards to my site, I personally don't find my site difficult to read or navigate(feel free to check it out), but about 1-2 enquirers will enter my DMs and try to book me through twitter/instagram because it's "too hard" to find and fill up my booking form.
It gets kind of frustrating I must say! Because I try to correct them patiently and almost hold their hand when it comes to filling up the contact form and even navigating my site. And they still don't get it.
So this results in me telling them very directly, "Please don't book me, I'm seriously unable to understand your English and this makes things very ambiguous and difficult for me to handle when it can be very easily solved with a filled up contact form. Please find someone else who can understand you, because I sure can't!"
My own reasoning: I don't see guys who speak very broken English because I just know talking to them would drive me up the wall because I don't speak broken English, I don't speak much Singlish/dialect slang either. I don't think they are bad clients at all, just that I wouldn't be able to connect with them with conversation, which wouldn't be fair to the client as well. Conversation IS an important aspect of building chemistry and rapport for GFE after all. I'm speaking from personal experience with a client who spoke truly horrible broken English to the point where I couldn't even understand him.... it was so difficult to carry a conversation with him, I don't understand him, he doesn't understand me.
Is this considered rude? Going in deeper, does rejection of such clients make me a classist/elitist asshole?
This is just something I've been reflecting on because I've had a streak of clients that I've had to reject recently simply because don't speak good English/don't know how to navigate my site. Now I definitely don't need my clients to speak perfect English, but I've been getting some enquiries where the English is so broken, I can only recognise that they want x date and x time. With regards to my site, I personally don't find my site difficult to read or navigate(feel free to check it out), but about 1-2 enquirers will enter my DMs and try to book me through twitter/instagram because it's "too hard" to find and fill up my booking form.
It gets kind of frustrating I must say! Because I try to correct them patiently and almost hold their hand when it comes to filling up the contact form and even navigating my site. And they still don't get it.
So this results in me telling them very directly, "Please don't book me, I'm seriously unable to understand your English and this makes things very ambiguous and difficult for me to handle when it can be very easily solved with a filled up contact form. Please find someone else who can understand you, because I sure can't!"
My own reasoning: I don't see guys who speak very broken English because I just know talking to them would drive me up the wall because I don't speak broken English, I don't speak much Singlish/dialect slang either. I don't think they are bad clients at all, just that I wouldn't be able to connect with them with conversation, which wouldn't be fair to the client as well. Conversation IS an important aspect of building chemistry and rapport for GFE after all. I'm speaking from personal experience with a client who spoke truly horrible broken English to the point where I couldn't even understand him.... it was so difficult to carry a conversation with him, I don't understand him, he doesn't understand me.
Is this considered rude? Going in deeper, does rejection of such clients make me a classist/elitist asshole?
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