Comments on: Friend Promotion – Step 3 of the Authority Building Process

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:46:15 +0000

The dilemma is finding new friends but not so many that you have no spare time for anything else.

By: Make Money Blogging

Make Money Blogging — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:02:01 +0000

That couldn’t be more true than in the world of the web. So many skills and areas of knowledge required that are needed most of the time. Team work rules ;o)

By: Alex Baldwin

Alex Baldwin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:53:40 +0000

United we stand. Divided we fall. I hold this to be very true, when I worked in the real estate market for Keller Williams one thing I did was help interlink their realtors pages to mortgage brokers etc. networking is the key to business and I love this article because some internet marketers lose that sense of real life networking and become isolated. Keep up the good writing.

By: Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:03:55 +0000

Thanks for mentioning the friend factor. Too many people just submit their own stuff and never vote on their friends’ submissions and help others out. The more you help others out by voting, commenting, and building your friends’ confidence in you, the more it will pay off in the long run.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:51:14 +0000

Very good advice and a point worth mentioning. I think as many people work alone promoting their own websites it’s good to remember that by working together one can often achieve a lot more. It’s the whole idea behind the web after all. I plan to make a far greater effort in the future to contribute more to the community, thanks for the tips.

By: Michael D

Michael D — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:51:32 +0000

You continue to write all this smart stuff Jeff. I’m printing this and studying so that I can work on improving my value in the community.

By: spostareduro

spostareduro — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:24:06 +0000

Jeff, you are so amazing. I don’t have anything to suggest, but I’d like to add a copy paste of a quote that I keep close by if you don’t mind.

“Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families and ultimately societies together.”– Jane O’Reilly

By: Paul M. Banas

Paul M. Banas — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:17:38 +0000

Jeff,

I think this is an excellent series you have going here. One question I have around the idea of Friend Promotion is a hypothesis I’ve seen discussed lately concerning diminishing returns from mediums such as Stumbleupon when your group’s sites are stumbled over and over by the same few users.

It seems there is a perception of a penalty that occurs from having such a tight knit group doing Friend Promotion. People are seeing lower traffic counts if the same few people keep Stumbling their sites. Do you see this issue occurring as well?

By: Nick James

Nick James — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:02:54 +0000

Invaluable as ever, Jeff.
Though you touched on this with the first point on commenting, I think it’s also important to stay in touch (frequent or infrequently), whether through messaging on Stumble, etc. or through Twitter, or whatever; as it shows a genuine commitment to the team and that you’re not solely there for your own personal agenda. Now I wonder who taught me that? 😉
Great cartoon BTW. Sort of reminds me of the Mars probe that was lost in 1999, after NASA calculated some technical thruster gubbins in metric, whilst a contractor provided data in imperial.