Courtesy online is just as important as courtesy in a brick and mortar store.
Online marketing is becoming more and more popular. As this phenomenon grows, so to do the sites devoted to combining network marketing with social networking. Sites like SWOM, APSense, IBOToolbox, SalesSpider, Linkedin and even social sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are utilized by savvy marketers as a place to get there message across.The sad fact is that as these marketers turn to the internet, they seem to have forgotten some of the things they learned in brick and mortar locations. Small items like courtesy and kindness. The lessons we all learned from our parents or other important people in our youth such as, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all" or "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar", seem to be lost on some people.
Every site has them. Rude people who, when they are called on their behavior, claim that they are "just being honest". I am totally for being honest, but I do believe that if a human being is capable of logging onto a website, reading something on it, making the decision whether they like it or not and then proceeding to respond to it, they are capable of being courteous. I mean after all, if they're smart enough to type, they are certainly smart enough to know the difference between rudeness and courtesy.
The biggest problem lies in the fact that when you post something on the internet, it follows you. If you are marketing products and you flame someone else in an article or criticize them "loudly", you are much less likely to attract people to your own business. Personally, I don't want anything to do with a person who "blasts" another business or individual, even if they do feel they have a legitimate reason for not liking what was said.
Something to think about.
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Comments (3)
Ian Begg8
Marketer, Engineer
Thanks Gerry, both the sites you mentioned IMO are not scams as you rightly point out and should not be labeled as such. Indeed with sites like these, Apsense, imfaceplate and other business orientated sites, it seems to me the main offenders are those into "get rich quick", rather than the people who know work is required for anything to happen in business. I agree with you completely regarding decorum, and I hope this article may change some peoples opinions towards rude behavior and what is a
Gerry Copenhaver5
Team Leader
I agree, but what I have also noticed is that a lot of things get labeled scams when they clearly are not. I have run into two cases in the last week of just this kind of thing. The first one is IBOToolbox. A site very similar to APSense in that it caters to online business people. They don't charge, they don't have any sort of payment structure and yet some have labeled it with pyramid schemes. The other is The Customer Advantage. It does have a payment plan, but it's 100% based on what p
Ian Begg8
Marketer, Engineer
Interesting Article Gerry, and I do agree with what you are saying about common courtesy often lacking in the online community. I think this kind of goes to a deeper level, with society as a whole becoming ruder and less able to communicate in a civil manner. The use of bad grammar and sms type language also can cause people to misunderstand each other. I have seen a number of Marketers lose their cool lately due to the large numbers of scams and spams that are circulating at the moment, and r