Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Believe it or Not, Self-Promotion Can Hurt You

from WebPro News

The interesting thing about online self-promotion is that it can be vital to your success, but can also make you look horrible, tarnish your reputation, and alienate people. There are good ways to promote yourself, and there are bad ways. Some of the bad ways are often looked upon as spam - things like blog comment spam, forum spam, or of course Twitter/Facebook spam come to mind.

As iFroggy's Patrick O'Keefe said in an interview we did with him at SXSW, it's just disrespectful to a person's space or community. "All kinds of online communities have their own form of spam," and people always cross the line, he says.


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