People often complain that they send out lots of emails to potential exchange partners and get no responses. Usually they blame those who are contacted. They could have taken a moment to decline the offer, right? Before pointing to the beam in your exchange partners' house, look to the moat you may be creating around your own home. You may be inadvertently making it difficult or unappealing for people to respond to your swap request.
How does this work? You sent out a bunch of swap offers and no one is interested. Worse, only a few people bothered to write back to say "no thanks". How rude! Why don't people at least dash off a one-sentence email to let you know you should look elsewhere?
Maybe they did. In the past two days I have received two emails from potential swap partners to which I could not respond. In both instances, my message was returned to me by the exchangers' spam blocker program. To send my "no thank you" reply to the offers, the automated reply required that I follow an unknown link to a spam blocker site. There, I had to enter my name and a code word to let my reply actually get to the swappers' inbox. Forget it.
Even if I were interested in the swap offer, this barrier to communication might make me look elsewhere. Home exchangers should do everything they can to facilitate communication, not make it as difficult as possible. I'm guessing that these exchangers will be scratching their heads in a week or so, wondering why no one is interested in their homes.
Next time, we'll discuss the biggest mistake swappers make. It's the number one reason they have a hard time snagging that perfect home exchange. Is it something you do?
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