As a content creator, I’ve produced hundreds of top quality online marketing products for some of the biggest names in the business. This is not a boast, merely a fact – if they weren’t top quality, they would have been slung back at me.
Hasn’t happened yet, hence my confidence…
And one of the things that I’ve learned during this time is that consistency is massively important no matter what it is you’re doing on the net.
A couple of examples will explain why.
If you use Facebook or Twitter to market a product or service, the site users that you are promoting to must trust you. If you are not consistent, how can they?
Even if you are not promoting or marketing, your ‘followers’ need to trust and respect you. Again, if they do not, how can you expect them to believe a word you say?
So it’s been quite unnerving recently that so many marketers seem to be forgetting this.
For my sins, I am on almost every mailing list you can think of. This is not because I’m a masochist, or at least I don’t think so. But I do need to keep up with what is going on to make sure that today’s new product is not based on yesterday’s ideas and concepts.
And what I am seeing is information that is becoming less and less consistent (and therefore believable) by the day.
As an example, a few days ago, I received a video where a marketer I have actually worked for was pushing this great new ‘technique’ for making money using AdWords (a product that costs $49). Not a week later, I get another video for the same guy’s latest product which absolutely pans AdWords as the worst thing ever!
Total (almost moronic) inconsistency = complete lack of credibility from this point on…
It’s an object lesson in how not to ‘sell’ anything (a product, service or even yourself) on the net. What you post online is the only point of contact your readers have with you, hence, this is the ‘you’ that they know.
If you want to lose your credibility, changing your stance from ‘white’ to ‘black’ and back again is just about one of the quickest ways I know of doing so.
When credibility is important, you must be consistent, it’s as simple as that.
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What do you think?
Agree? Disagree? Think that I must be a masochist?
Let me know – I’d love to hear your thoughts…
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