How NOT to Promote Your Real Estate Business!
February 22nd, 2010 by Ruth Ann MacklinI’m sure you have heard the quote ‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.’ I believe this is true. I also believe it has limits. One of the limits is copying text off the Home page of my real estate virtual assistant website without asking my permission. At first, I was not a happy camper as you can imagine. On taking a second look, it became hysterical. Here is why…
I received an email from a virtual assistant friend of mine. I read:
Hello,
This website is stealing some of your content : http://colvas.com/default.aspx. The person left in the links that lead back to your website. I also found my content on this website. I have copied the pages of the site with the stolen copy to a pdf as proof in case there is a denial.
Upon reading this email, I don’t mind telling you I was pissed!! I visited the the site mentioned above and low and behold there are the first two paragraphs of my website copied word for word. The screen shot below was taken February 22, 2010…
Take a look at the Home page of my website and you will see what was lifted from me.At this point, I am still very annoyed but then I clicked on the link in the second line: ‘real estate virtual assistant’ and it goes to a page on MY WEBSITE: http://myreassistant.com/what-is-a-va. Seriously!! Now I can’t stop laughing and every time I tell this story to someone I laugh harder. I don’t know if I should be angry this person stole my stuff or thank her for the backlink to my website.
Funny or not, the bottom line is don’t ‘borrow’ someone else’s work without asking permission! It is not a good way to promote your real estate business and the person may not be flattered!!
