The Uninvited Blog Review Schmoe

Everyone likes advice, especially if it's free.

If you're trying to master the social networking thing, do observe the rules of social reciprocity.

Would you walk up to a stranger on the street and get his help trying to restructure your home mortage?

Then why would you message someone you don't really know and ask for help the FIRST time you ever speak to them?

It's the online equivalent of the "walk up to a stranger in the street" scenario, isn't it?

It'll be nice to build rapport with someone with your first contact.
From there, once you get to know the person a little better THEN ask for advice...

I meet some strangers at parties, and the first thing they do is gripe about their relationship and talk about what a b*tch or a**hole their partner is. In these scenarios, I run away from them as fast as I can.

Here's a typical first contact schmoe PM on mybloglog:

HI Andrew, my name is [deleted].I have had a website I started 6 months ago and have been trying to launch it for quite a while. [Andrew's note: then why haven't you?]

As a marketeer what is your best advice the site will explain all it is at www.[URL deleted] could you advise me how to promote this with the least expense as is. Many thank

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If you are genuine about building a website or blog, why are you messaging strangers and asking for advice?

Shouldn't you be doing something yourself, and seeing if it works?

It just feels like you want me to go to your site, and maybe click on your adsense ads, and maybe even buy something from you...

If you didn't put in effort to do up your site, I don't think you should be approaching others to try to fix your site.

If you really want to go down this advice solicitation route, I'd suggest building a relationship, and when we know each other better, then ask for a casual review.

Else my team does consultations as part of our suite of professional services.