This post was guest blogged by Anonymous.
So, what does your blog tell me about you? Well, we can start with first impressions – how your blog looks. The fact is, however, that physical appearance in websites or in people is, to a large degree, a matter of preference. I’m not a design person. I’m not looking for the showiest site. How you, or your site, look isn’t the crucial factor for me … that’s what cosmetic surgery and web designers are for. What I want to know is who you really are, not what you look like. Sure, that’s what “About Me†is for, but, honestly, all that tells me is who you want me to believe you are. In the final analysis, it’s what you write that tells me the most about who you really are.
You know the old saying, “You are what you eat”? Well, I want to modify that: for my purposes, you are what you WRITE. That’s where I get the most information about who you are. If you don’t write complete sentences, if you have spelling errors, if you don’t use correct punctuation, if you don’t get to the point, I’ll immediately skip to the next blog. Why? Because how you write tells me how intelligent, educated, and self-aware you are. It tells me how sensitive to your audience you are, how attentive to details you are, and how high your professional standards are. These are all traits which are exactly the kind of personal characteristics I’m looking for in a potential business partner and investment.
What does your writing say about who you are? Leaving in grammatical errors and misspelling is just plain sloppy and unprofessional, which I’m guessing is not the image you want to project. Does this mean that if you can’t write well you won’t succeed? Not at all. There are many successful bloggers who aren’t superb writers. We’re not talking Nobel Prize for Blogging here. But if you know that writing isn’t your strong suit, why take a chance that you would be turning off potential partners and investors such as myself? Find a respected friend, family member, or program that can edit your posts before they’re published. You don’t have to be an innately excellent writer; few of us, including myself, are. But find someone or some program that CAN polish the image you project in your writing. If you want to attract something excellent, hold to that standard yourself.
