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» Building Blogging Relationships: Blog Tips - ProBlogger — Mon, 30 May 2005 22:36:56 +0000

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By: Allen Heat

Allen Heat — Mon, 30 May 2005 10:53:32 +0000

Honestly, i don’t know how to describe the way i feel your’e helping me….but if some do, you’ll decide to stop this “close” (compared to other bloggers)) relationships with your fans, i will totally understand you, it’s very demanding i guess…..i mean, I always talk and ask you about stuff, and most of the time a get a deep helpful answer, now….if you didn’t answer, i’d still come here everyday and read posts….but it seems that there is another cause your’e working for, not only gaining money, but really helping bloggers to succeed….

You ROCK!
Heat

By: John Evans

John Evans — Mon, 30 May 2005 09:27:43 +0000

I think it comes down to what you think you’re doing when you sit at your computer. Some people are “working”, others are “leisuring”. If you are a worker, there’s nothing more tiresome than people who are just whiling away the time trying to engage you in long, rambling IM conversations about nothing in particular. It really is about productivity sometimes.

By: Shai Coggins

Shai Coggins — Mon, 30 May 2005 05:18:47 +0000

Totally and heartily agree on all your points. Without getting in to too much detail, at one stage I decided to make myself “unavailable” except to a close few bloggers because things were getting too much. I think generally this is fine. But, I realised that when I wanted to make a living out of doing this (blogging/writing/general online work/etc.), I can’t keep making myself unavailable. So, I too had to get out of my comfort zone, toughen my skin a little, and just “get out there.”

Anyway, yes, I agree that if you make yourself ‘available’ and just suddenly disappear — it will harm your reputation. And, making yourself ‘available’ only when it benefits you is worse. It’s vert tough when people contact you, ask you for something, they get what they need, and then they’d just vanish. No thanks. No acknowledgement. Nothing. Now, that sort of behaviour will definitely harm reputations.