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Deb Ng of Network Blogging Tips posted about a gal who tried to cheat Web 2.0 tactics. You’ve got to go read the post now so that you’ll know what I’m talking about.
I’ll wait.
(Sipping coffee)
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What do you think of something like this? I am flabbergasted that someone would even try something like that. Don’t they know how easy it is to see IP numbers on blog posts?
I don’t know who Deb is talking about and I’ll admit my curiosity is high - but I respect her not revealing the name in the post.
If I did know who she was, or worse, if she is someone I ‘know’ online - I’d probably have a hard time forgiving her lies and deception. I can’t stand it when people try to cheat the system.
A little shameless self promotion if great. As an internet marketer I welcome messages from other about what they do. I’d much rather hear you say that you think you’re great than think that you’d pretend to be someone else who says you’re great.
Social Networking invites interpersonal communication and I love that. I treasure it! In my opinion, it’s an major faux pas to use these open lines of communication to lie and deceive a person or a community. It’s something I consider unforgivable - unless the person who tells the lie makes it right by confessing and telling the truth. (Which almost NEVER happens.)
What do you think?
Kelly McCausey worked hard for others for many years and never made ends meet.
Now this single mom enjoys the freedom that comes from working hard for herself as an internet marketer, podcaster
and WAHM business coach. Host of 
I think deception like that, if made known in the Internet world, would be the death of your reputation. Call me naive, but I saw my mother build a successful retail business by giving excellent service, being honest, generous to a fault, friends with her main “competitor” in town, and treatly everyone with warmth and respect. I think you can convey those same kind of traits online via social networking, and I think those that do, build a word-of-mouth reputation that will draw customers. And I guess if that’s naive, I’d rather just stay that way.
There’s a big difference in self-promotion and this little trick. Self-promotion doesn’t involve deceit. If someone really believes those things about herself (or himself) why would they need to pretend to be someone else saying it? Or if it needs to come from someone else for whatever reason, why not ask someone you’ve worked with to provide you with a testimonial or quote? If the person really is that wonderful, I’m sure they’d have no problem obtaining a positive recommendation from someone.
Sadly, this is going to completely backfire on her. Rather than promoting herself, she’s pretty much ruined her credibility and her reputation.
In some IM circles she would seem angelic.
Did you ever hear about the guys who deliberately start an argument on a forum just so they can keep popping in and adding personas to supply even more arguments.
See, they want you to get angry at them and check out their signature links.
Ich!
Wow, that’s pretty low. To me, that’s along the same lines as restaurants, hotels, or any other business going online and creating positive reviews of their business while disguised as a “happy paying customer who had a positive experience”. Once people find out about it, you’ll most likely never recover from the damage your reputation has incurred.
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Things are a lot different today than when we were just starting out. There’s so much more competition. I’m sure it might seem overwhelming to get your blog’s mention out there when the blogosphere is so vast. But it can be done, we know that. It may takes years of hard work, but it can be done.
Thanks for the link.
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Hey Deb!
You’re so right!
Over and over we see quality people who arrive on the scene with great skills and savvy and rise to high visibility without having to do anything deceptive.
Dang! Now why didn’t I think of that?
Just kidding. I can’t imagine being desperate enough to try something so dumb. Success takes a lot of effort and time. I don’t mind that.
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Laughable.
Lets hope that she (naughty spamer) learned a little lesson here.
It’s takes much longer to repair your damaged brand or reputation than it does to build it up legitimately.
A little patience and honesty will get you a lot farther than deception.