Richmond DinhCreator & Founder of Tiny Challenges™

The DM Mistake That Makes People Ignore You..

23 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short coaching monologue, Richmond Dinh warns against sending multiple long voice messages (up to nine 90‑second clips) as direct messages. He explains that such voice‑DM spamming forces the recipient to pause their work, effectively holding their time hostage, and signals that the sender is more focused on their own story than on the prospect’s needs. Dinh argues that successful coaches should keep messaging client‑centric, emphasizing how they can solve the prospect’s problem rather than sharing backstory or context. He also shares a practical WhatsApp hack that transcribes voice clips into text, allowing friends who habitually send voice DMs to be read rather than heard, while still urging them to stop the practice.

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These are the worst kinds of DMs, and it's worse than cold DMs. When someone sends me 3, 4, 5, or even up to 9 voice clips in a row, and each of them are maxed out at 90 seconds each. If you're the one that's doing that, don't do it. It forces the person to stop and listen and drop everything they're doing to listen to you, and you're holding them hostage on their time. If you're the type of person that sends multiple voice clips all at once, the reason why you're not making money in your coaching business is you're making everything about you, and not your ideal clients. No one wants to hear your backstory, no one wants to hear your context. The only thing that people wanna know is how can you solve their problem? That's it. Some of my friends do this, and I love my friends, so I found this really cool hack on WhatsApp where you can actually get WhatsApp to translate what they're saying verbally into text. So if you're one of my friends that do that, I love you, I never listen to your posts, I just read the text. But stop doing it.