Take the pledge to always be Honest, Accurate, and to Help People!
When I create a post and write an article, I do my research on the topic, make every effort to be accurate with the facts, be honest, and try to provide something useful to people.
I am amazed when I look at other sites and read their content how many of them are just plain wrong with the facts.
I believe it is always helpful to cite your sources and only use credible ones because it will add to your credibility.
We owe this to people that read our content so they can rely on it as being truthful.
All my best, Alex
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For sure, and that's exactly how your content will rank higher - Google rewards that massively :)
Your blog posts here at WA can be accessed by non-members, meaning that they can also be indexed by search engines :)
Throughly agree Alex, good article, and the first person we need to be honest with is usually ourself. From there it flows outwards. Unfortunately today in highly politicised environments honesty has become a casualty as reporting on a state of affairs as they actual exist (on an evidentiary basis) and a rational dissenting view can be taken (but not intended) as hate speech with its broad and insidious suppression of free speech.
It appears the way society is going, the witness box in a court and private company will soon be of the only places free speech will be tolerated. I wonder what happened to our humour...and ability to make fun of ourselves.
We are now living in an age when even the technical and the medical can easily become political. As a result some people say nothing and let things happen to people based on natural or systemic causation instead of speaking out. Sometimes people misinform people and people rely upon that information. Sometimes the results are disastrous in both scenarios.
In terms of product referrals however, I would suggest this would mean advising people of the fact a referral is being made, and making sure the quality of the product is based on 'do unto others' as in would I be happy to refer this product or service to friends or family. Unqualified or non experienced referrals would mean to me no skin in the game as they say.
Following on from that line of thinking, it would mean for me that to sell a product or service, I would have to have used it myself, otherwise that would mean I am not closely coupled enough with the product to be honest with my intended audience.
Thank you for bringing up this critical point, as in my own experience every conflict is usually the result of either a misunderstanding, dishonesty or lack of integrity. Intellectual dishonesty is a scourge in of itself and should be avoided by using objective evidentiary measures, rather than subjective opinion pieces.
Hope this adds to your point, objectively ;-)
Brook
Wow! Great comments! You have added to the subject matter in a significant way!
Thanks for your comments. Alex.
Thanks Alex, the subject is something that actually attracted me to the WA forum.
It was an article on that subject matter (thanks @VitaliyG) which drew me in on an affiliate link.
There is a lot of deception employed in the marketplace today, sometimes as marketing trickery, hype, greenwashing or virtue signalling. Yuk - or as one known finance presenter says 'the future is fake'.
Most people just want to enjoy a 'benefit' from what they buy using a means of exchange (some form of currency), usually by getting 'use' of it as opposed to it just sitting unread or unused like a 'pink elephant'.
One thought on helping people might be to follow up after a sale with a question:
One a scale of 1 to 10 how useful was this product to you?
(it could be broken down into useful now and useful later as well)
It goes without saying that if the answer was a high number, then it would answer the question of would they buy it again.
Another question might then be the half life of the information - how long is it, and what is its enduring value.
Brook
PS: As far as the survey goes, it made me think of this song:
https://youtu.be/bpOSxM0rNPM - Do I want to know?
Is there a way to post a comment from my blog on my website?
There isn't any way within the WA platform to directly post it from your WA blog to your website. However, there is always a way ;)
You can use a screencapture app, like monosnap, to capture the comment and save it as an image. Then you can add it to your website as an image.
hope that helps,
Rex
You can either link to your WA blog post from within your own website OR do a screen capture of the comment and then link to your WA blog through that image.
Thanks Rex
Thanks, Boomer
Thanks