If you are the person behind building your brand online, what you say can have a huge impact. Your reputation can literally change in 140 characters or less! Every day someone says the wrong thing and literally that person gets unfollowed, or even harassed. Perez Hilton was a prime example when he bashed Michael Jackson
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Beware of Fiverr Scammers
I have been using Fiverr for a few things and decided to try out some services out there to promote some of my business dealings. For the most part, I have had some great results. Then, the following happened: I saw what seemed like a good opportunity. So, I signed up. It seemed honest and
[Continue Reading...]Watch out! Facebook Might Sue You For Having ‘Book’ In The Name of Your Business
Yep, you heard it! The Los Angeles Times published the article Facebook sues start-up for using ‘book’ in its name. The small site Teachbook.com is the target of being sued. This site helps give teachers a leg up with their job by providing valuable resources to manage classes. Personally I think Facebook just picked the
[Continue Reading...]Begging for Money Online – Effective Or Just Another Way to Abuse the System?
So, I came across my first Twitter begging scam. It was unfortunate because a couple of my regular followers decided to chip in out of their own kindness. I highly respect people who have big hearts, but sometimes I fear for them at the same time. It kind of goes hand in hand with the
[Continue Reading...]TechCrunch Opens Mouth And Inserts Foot About DeviantART
Recently I read an article on TechCrunch called The 100 Millionth Deviation on DeviantART Is A Gay Sex Story, But I’m Going To Show You This Arctic Unicorn Instead. I would not tell them to retract their article, but I will say it was the dumbest thing next up to the other sites they have
[Continue Reading...]Blogging Drama: Smear Campaigns, Leave That To The Gossip Sites
I have been noticing a trend of people finding it their personal right to smear someone who they do not know anything other than the tweets or certain people. In fact, recently, an incident mentioning @AlohaArleen came up. I have never met her in person, but I tweet with her on Twitter and have been
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