Comments on: Bloggers: Are You Being of Service or Self Serving?

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By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:44:17 +0000

Charles — good point, one that I’d like to address.

If the “service” of your blog is on-point to the needs of your readers, then even without coming close to “selling” anything the blog will further your selling agenda. How? Because you’re jacking your credibility within your niche. You’re “branding” yourself, and branding is the bedrock of selling over the long term.

Blog readers understand there is an underlying agenda to almost everything. But that doesn’t mean selfless service to readers doesn’t work. Take a look at where we are right now: it’s nearly impossible to detect a selling agenda in most of these Copyblogger entries. They are all “of-service.” Occasionally there’s a new product release, and guess what: we accept that, we even buy the product, primarily because of the credibility and branding of the site itself.

Great blogging is always shooting for the win-win. It’s just that the writer’s win sometimes resides down the credibility road.

Hope this helps clarify. Not that you were confused; in fact, I think your comment opens the door to the entire branding-through-credibility-and- service issue.

By: Charles - Big Idea Blogger

Charles - Big Idea Blogger — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:38:22 +0000

Actually I’m still having questions about serving. Top businesses give excellent SERVICE, but the bottom-line is still profits.

If bloggers intend to make money from their blogs, the concept of “being of SERVICE” from a business stand-point is definitely sound. But if you are just “SERVING”, it doesn’t really work out to profits.

Something like a BUSINESSMAN being of SERVICE, and a WAITER who is SERVING.

Even though in both cases, both are adding VALUE to readers, the difference can be one earning lots of money doing what he is doing (because he is being of service), and the other earning nothing (because he is just serving).

Food for thought…

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Social Networking for Business — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:43:15 +0000

Quality of writing and the intention to educate/inform or serve the readers is what makes a successful blog stand out from the self-serving blogs.

It’s really true when you have a mindset when writing of helping others with quality information they are searching for, you get the opportunity to continue to share when they dig deeper into your blog, subscribe to your rss feed, join your email list or buy something from you.

Connect with people as individuals who have needs, questions, wants and dreams in your writing and you’ll find yourself with a community of people who are willing to listen and eventually buy from you.

@TimothyCarter

By: Glory

Glory — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:12:26 +0000

Thanks SO much for the info. I haven’t started my blog yet but am looking forward to setting one up that will be helpful and informative to students and teachers.

By: John Paul

John Paul — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:15:03 +0000

This is a great post, I fully believe that you should treat your blog like your Customet Service Center. Be of Value to your visitors.

I wrote a post on this 2wks ago

http://www.johnpaulaguiar.com/hi-how-can-i-help-you-make-your-blog-your-customer-service-center/

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The Best Connectors/Networkers « Ready for Happiness Group — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:29:54 +0000

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