Comments on: Who would think you could sell a car to a blind man? http://twitterwatchdog.com/2010/01/28/who-would-think-you-could-sell-a-car-to-a-blind-man/ "Watching out for you, one tweet at a time" Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:54:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt Nelson http://twitterwatchdog.com/2010/01/28/who-would-think-you-could-sell-a-car-to-a-blind-man/comment-page-1/#comment-2040 Matt Nelson Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:29:24 +0000 http://twitterwatchdog.com/?p=3996#comment-2040 Thanks for sharing this great real life example Lois. I guess this all gets back to the age old "You can't judge a book by it's cover" saying. Which I think holds pretty true for many of the people you come across in Twitter during the course of a day/week. It does take time to (all be it in small increments here and there) listen and gauge the value of what people are bringing to the table but without doing so you could potentially be eliminating some very important connections and channels from your ever evolving network. Keep the great content coming! Thanks. Matt Thanks for sharing this great real life example Lois. I guess this all gets back to the age old “You can’t judge a book by it’s cover” saying. Which I think holds pretty true for many of the people you come across in Twitter during the course of a day/week. It does take time to (all be it in small increments here and there) listen and gauge the value of what people are bringing to the table but without doing so you could potentially be eliminating some very important connections and channels from your ever evolving network.

Keep the great content coming! Thanks.

Matt

]]> By: Cecilia http://twitterwatchdog.com/2010/01/28/who-would-think-you-could-sell-a-car-to-a-blind-man/comment-page-1/#comment-2014 Cecilia Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:52:35 +0000 http://twitterwatchdog.com/?p=3996#comment-2014 First of all - I'm honored to have been pulled out of the Crowd! (LOL) We met as a result of Al putting out a call for professional procrastinators (on Twitter), and we both responded a few seconds apart. Real Persons - you bet! I so agree with you, Lois, that you just never know who knows who, who was looking for just your particular service or product - an experience we've had repeated several times. This is usually a two-way street, too, with both parties ending up benefiting from the relationship, in one form or another. Your recount of the Ford dealer and the blind man should remind us all that you should not ignore small wounds or destitute friends (Mom used to quote that a lot - she was a nurse...). My "follow policy" pretty much coincides with yours, though obviously on a smaller scale. I have dropped some automated tweeters, some I keep for the "industry currency". I check out new followers before following back - if "offensive" they get blocked, if no profile and/or tweets I wait to see any development before following back. Tedious, maybe, but I have the time. I'm glad to be considered among your friends, Lois - you're certainly among mine. Thank you! "Annie" p.s. - We may need YOU, too! :-) First of all – I’m honored to have been pulled out of the Crowd! (LOL)
We met as a result of Al putting out a call for professional procrastinators (on Twitter), and we both responded a few seconds apart. Real Persons – you bet!
I so agree with you, Lois, that you just never know who knows who, who was looking for just your particular service or product – an experience we’ve had repeated several times. This is usually a two-way street, too, with both parties ending up benefiting from the relationship, in one form or another.
Your recount of the Ford dealer and the blind man should remind us all that you should not ignore small wounds or destitute friends (Mom used to quote that a lot – she was a nurse…).
My “follow policy” pretty much coincides with yours, though obviously on a smaller scale. I have dropped some automated tweeters, some I keep for the “industry currency”. I check out new followers before following back – if “offensive” they get blocked, if no profile and/or tweets I wait to see any development before following back. Tedious, maybe, but I have the time.
I’m glad to be considered among your friends, Lois – you’re certainly among mine.
Thank you!
“Annie”
p.s. – We may need YOU, too! :-)

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