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Oops, You Just Killed Your Reputation

<p>As an internet marketer myself&comma; I firmly believe that the amount of clients&sol;sales we&&num;8217&semi;re generating and our profits highly depend on our reputation&period; I can say this with confidence because I&&num;8217&semi;ve met reputable people online&comma; and not-so-reputable ones&period; Comparing the amount of sales that they generate&comma; I can attest that the latter do not produce as much as the former&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am writing this post because I want to help you &&num;8212&semi; I want you to avoid ruining your reputation&comma; while it is still possible&period; You see&comma; once you &&num;8220&semi;kill&&num;8221&semi; your reputation&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s dead&period; I doubt that you can ever get back what you lost&period; Well&&num;8230&semi; maybe some can&comma; but it would prove to be very difficult&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Just How Important Is Reputation&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I know&comma; some people don&&num;8217&semi;t see reputation as an important factor in internet marketing success&period; They take it for granted&period; Hence&comma; I am going to give a situation which will serve as a concrete example that reputation is a determining factor to achieve success in IM&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let&&num;8217&semi;s have &&num;8220&semi;Person A&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;Person B&&num;8221&semi;&period; Both of them run competing web design companies&period; Person A is highly respected&comma; and a lot of people recommend his service&period; Person B&comma; on the other hand&comma; has a habit of bad-mouthing his clients&period; As a result&comma; his ex-clients warn others that Person B&&num;8217&semi;s company is not recommendable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Supposing that they both have the same skills and pricing structure&comma; who would get more client work&comma; and&comma; in the end&comma; more profit&quest; Surely&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s Person A&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now you see how important reputation is&period; I want to delve deeper into this topic by talking about my experiences on people who &lpar;seemingly&rpar; are murdering their reputation unconsciously&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-255" title&equals;"reputation - Copy" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;reputation-Copy&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Unconscious Murder of Our Own Reputation&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What Things Usually Happen&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are times when people do things just for fun&comma; not knowing that those things could possibly hurt their &&num;8220&semi;perfect&&num;8221&semi; reputation&excl; Fake bids&period; Swearing at clients&period; Not honoring bids&sol;not sending payments promptly&period; Do those phrases sound familiar&quest; Well&comma; unfortunately&comma; a lot of people do those acts&period; What&&num;8217&semi;s more unfortunate about this is&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re killing their reputation by doing so&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>A Brief Yet Interesting Experience<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Allow me to share an anecdote&period; &colon;&rpar; Last week&comma; I was on the Digital Point Forums and I recently sold a small website there&period; The bid was &dollar;165 and it was a private bid&period; I was told that I would be receiving the payment last Tuesday&comma; but then up until now I see no signs of any payments made&period; I am not whining or whatever&period; Besides&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s not the money&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s the principle of keeping your word&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s the principle of speaking with honor&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So&comma; what does this experience tell me about the bidder&quest; He&&num;8217&semi;s a liar&comma; he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t honor his bids&comma; and he&&num;8217&semi;s not worth my time&period; To be honest&comma; I gave him an allowance of four days already&period; He had been reading my private messages &lpar;I know this because I was asking for read receipts through vBulletin&&num;8217&semi;s system&period;&rpar;&comma; yet he didn&&num;8217&semi;t even have the courage to tell me ANYTHING at all&excl; At least now I know that I MUST avoid him&sol;not accept his bids&comma; should I sell any more sites on Digital Point&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Well&comma; I pity him because he&&num;8217&semi;s not getting any more business from me&comma; nor from my entire network&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>How to Prevent This from Happening<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Always think before you act&excl; This is a very important rule that everyone should follow&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t be tactless&semi; always use your head before doing anything&excl; Before promising a client something&comma; make sure that it&&num;8217&semi;s possible for you to do it&period; For example&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t tell your client that you can come up with a marketing plan in an hour after he pays you if you really can&&num;8217&semi;t&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speak with honor&&num;8230&semi; all the time&period; I hate it when people say something with full confidence&comma; and then take it back in the end when they know they&&num;8217&semi;ve said something unfavorable to them&period; If you say something&comma; then be sure that you can back it up&comma; and defend it until the end&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Act professionally&period; Shame that there are a lot of bad-mouthed&comma; morally impaired&comma; and ethically challenged people who call themselves professionals&period; In this world of business&comma; we should all act professionally so as to avoid pointless arguments and loss of heaps of revenue&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t resort to using cuss words just to get your point across&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t disrespect anyone you&&num;8217&semi;re dealing with&period; Just be polite and remember that having a great reputation depends on how well you know your values&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Summary<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People tend to kill their reputation unconsciously&period; Whether it&&num;8217&semi;s through scamming&comma; not honoring their words&comma; or even cussing at clients&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s still a riotous act that could ruin your reputation for your entire life&period; To prevent this from happening&comma; always see to it that you&&num;8217&semi;re acting professionally&comma; and you hold true to your word&period; A great rule to remember is&comma; &&num;8220&semi;ALWAYS think before you act&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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