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A conversation I had with Friend 1, a successful business owner, and Friend 2, a less successful business owner: Friend 1: Have you tried getting some positive
by impendia 14y ago
A conversation I had with Friend 1, a successful business owner, and Friend 2, a less successful business owner:
Friend 1: Have you tried getting some positive reviews on the internet? People really trust them, it really helps to drive business.
Friend 2: Oh, really? How many reviews do you have?
Friend 1: About twenty.
Friend 2: How many of them did you write yourself?
Friend 1: (Laughs) About nineteen of them.
- frakkingcylons 14y agoI'm not surprised by this. Writing reviews or mentions yourself or getting others to astroturf for your product is essential to getting started nowadays.
- ebbv 14y agoSadly it's essential because everyone does it. So when you have no reviews as a new business you look really suspicious because you're outside of an artificial norm.
- andrewljohnson 14y agoFalse, and it's opinions like these that let people justify their own dishonesty.
- devgutt 14y agoThis is one of the good things about social networks like Facebook. A review itself doesn't matter unless you know the reviewer.