Four Types Of Bloggers You Do Not Want To Be Like.
GEORGE SOUTO has given us excellent examples of ActiveRain bloggers we probably don't want to be.
- The Shameful Plugger:
HA! Are they shameful?? OR are they SHAMELESS? One thing for sure, they always remind me of Richard Nixon. When he made a speech, some pundits (and Lenn) would count the number of times he used the "I".
Come to think of it, that's still a useful thing to do when judging a politician's or AR member's writings.
- The Online Saboteur:
Sad to say, I have been the target of a few. They don't like agents who make commission rebates to new home buyers and try to portray me as unethical. HA! Who's unethical??? Disparaging fellow Realtors surely is.
- The Self-Styled Expert:
Not a problem if real estate folks write about real estate and mortgage folks write about mortgages and home inspectors write about home inspections. We can then learn from each other.
- Copy & Paste Advertsers:
These are the folks that pollute the AR bandwidth with evidence of their opportunism or ignorance of the law, or both.
Courtesy, Lenn Harley, Broker, Homefinders.com, 800-711-7988, serving home buyers in Loudoun County VA.
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Four Types Of Bloggers You Do Not Want To Be Like. Yesterday I wrote a blog titled "How Does Your Blog Brand You?", which hopefully caused those who read it to think about how they are being branded by their blogs. Today I want to also share four types of bloggers the same article, "A Unique Brand Can Be Yours" by Sarelyn Radecke & Gretchen Wegrich, warn to come across as in our blogs.
The four examples of blogger are:
- The Shameful Plugger: This blogger's posts are basically nothing but spam. Their blogs are basically ME, ME, ME shameless self-promotion. They will generally not stop with doing this on their own blogs, but extend it to their comments on the blogs of others.
- The Online Saboteur: This blogger will do anything and everything they can to trash their competition, even at the cost of making themselves look bad and losing prospective clients.
- The Self-Styled Expert: This blogger presents him or herself as an expert, but can't back-up what they say. This blogger presumes others will just except what they are saying, and be blinded to the fact they do not know what they are talking about. This is very likely to happen when a blogger steps outside of their area of expertise and into someone else's. It quickly becomes clear they do not have any real knowledge of what they are talking about.
- Copy & Paste Advertsers: This blogger is pretty self explanatory. This blogger is to lazy to create their own original content, so they simply copy what someone else has written and try to pass it off as their own. This blogger loses credibility quickly, because these days all anyone has to do is Google one or two sentences of the blog and there pops up the original blog, or content very similar to their blog.
NOTE: The above four terms for these bloggers were used in the article, but the explanations are worded in my own words to reflect the examples of these types of bloggers I have witnessed in the 7 years I have been blogging.
I hope these two blogs "How Does Your Blog Brand You?" and Four Types Of Bloggers You Do Not Want To Be Like, have caused the readers to look closely at how they are being branded by their blogs. I will close with the same question I closed yesterday's blog with, is your blog branding you in the way you want to be viewed by others, or is it doing the opposite? The answer requires honesty with ourselves, and the ability to see our true reflection in our blogging mirror.
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Info about the author:
George Souto NMLS# 65149 is a Loan Originator who can assist you with all your #FHA, #CHFA, and #Conventional #mortgage needs in Connecticut. George resides in Middlesex County which includes #Middletown, #Middlefield, #Durham, #Cromwell, #Portland, #Higganum, #Haddam, #East Haddam,# Chester, #Deep River, and #Essex. George can be contacted at (860) 573-1308 or gsouto@mccuemortgage.com
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