Comments on: Friendly Competition Builds Blogs

By: Nicholas Cardot

Nicholas Cardot — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:41:46 +0000

I completely agree. I don’t think that we’re going to hurt ourselves by referencing and learning from our competition. It should just push us to make our sites that much better.

By: Kidgas

Kidgas — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:29:02 +0000

This was a great article. There is no reason that bloggers can’t help each other and drive traffic to one another. Granted there is some competition for readers, but there are so many of them out there. Everybody can pull together and make the internet a better place for everybody.
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By: Nicholas Cardot

Nicholas Cardot — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:27:19 +0000

Senthil Ramesh –> Great. It’s not a bad thing to be a new blogger. You’ve got an exciting path in front of you. Enjoy every step of the journey.

By: Senthil Ramesh

Senthil Ramesh — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:13:13 +0000

Right man I am involved in this type of technique now. Finding friends in the blogosphere, building networks, commenting and sharing my ideas etc.., Though I am newbie and very fresh in blogging they reach out and help me b giving the tips.
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By: Nicholas Z. Cardot

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:44:33 +0000

Andrew –> Yes! That is a great example. That is absolutely perfect and I love the concept of it. They cared more about honesty, integrity, and being true to their customers needs than they cared about making a quick sale. That is exactly what we need more of.

By: Nicholas Z. Cardot

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:26:32 +0000

brigid –> You’re right. I like that sentiment a lot. Sharing is an awesome thing in blogging.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:40:14 +0000

I used to work in sales a very long time ago, for a multi billion dollar giant.

One of the executives used to tell a story of when he was a teenager working in a mens store.

His boss would tell all the staff that if they could not find a product in their own store that they should recommend another store close by that the customer might find what they were looking for.

In fact he would not just recommend the competitors store, he would walk them over, into the shop, advise the sales person what the customer was looking for then bid them good day.

In the end that multi national, multi billion dollar giant went bankrupt, but that little mens store has grown into a very prominent chain of stores nationally.

The moral of this story is that online or offline, if you help enough people out, even sending them to your competitors, they’ll be back, eventually, and they’ll be thanking you for it in the long run.

By: brigid

brigid — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:12:48 +0000

Sharing and helping others to find more info is the thing that attracted me to blogging. Its just a big community ready to help and advise all the way.
Posting links to other sites is important in more ways than one.
being human is all about sharing.
Brigid

By: Seth W

Seth W — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:31:05 +0000

I think we all realize as time goes by that helping each other is the best way to blog!

By: Ron Boracay

Ron Boracay — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:43:12 +0000

Seth, this is a great article of yours. Long time ago, Im afraid to link because of some speculations running to my head. For example, if I link out to a competitor of mine on the same niche, I am afraid to loose visitors and afraid of being behind the rankings.

But as time goes by, and for the great tips I learned by reading blogs of great bloggers, I learned that, if you link to a resourceful and informational blog, you just earned yourself some kind of trust from your visitor because, I gave them a good website (link) that they can also take a look into.