Comments on: Social Proof: How to Pass the Popularity Test in Blogging

By: Greg Narayan

Greg Narayan — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:41:42 +0000

In reply to Yeremi Akpan.

Awesome points Yeremi, and as usual a pleasure to have you here.

Outsourcing scares me, personally, so I do all the nitty gritty work myself.

How do you social proof? Do you have a killer strategy?

By: Greg Narayan

Greg Narayan — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:27:00 +0000

In reply to Remona Borgelt. Thanks.

By: Yeremi Akpan

Yeremi Akpan — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:47:48 +0000

Once again, an awesome post from Greg!

We are social animals, and because of our busy schedules we try to shirk the hard work and outsource whatever we do not really have to do ourselves.

It has become so bad that we crowd-source decision making – to join or not to join; to buy or not to buy – believing that ‘24,000 subscribers can’t be wrong!’

Sometimes that model works, but it does pay to do your due diligence because at times even the crowd can get it wrong.

By: Greg Narayan

Greg Narayan — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:45:00 +0000

In reply to Nikki Elledge Brown.

Oh nice, how’s it going on your end Nikki?

I could go for a good TED. It’s true, lots of great products just die out because of no social traction. I’m trying to think of my favorites…why is pogs all that comes to mind?

By: Greg Narayan

Greg Narayan — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:43:00 +0000

In reply to Abdul Rauf.

*Internet knucks* Abdul!

You’ve definitely got a friend here 🙂

Getting extra personal is tough though, really gotta put yourself out there. But if you do more times than not you’ll get rewarded.

By: Greg Narayan

Greg Narayan — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:36:15 +0000

In reply to Cori. Extremely well said on the humanity point Cori!

By: Remona Borgelt

Remona Borgelt — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:42:35 +0000

I’m not that much of a internet reader to be honest but your blogs really nice, keep it up! I’ll go ahead and bookmark your site to come back later. Cheers.

By: Greg Narayan

Greg Narayan — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:23:52 +0000

In reply to Ehsan from The Bloggers Community. I see you're doing a pretty darn good job of it Ehsan ;)

By: Abdul Rauf

Abdul Rauf — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:48:41 +0000

Wow. Again a great post, Greg. I love reading this as well. Darren Rowse is really awesome blogger. I like him so much.

And yeah to be social proof; you have to be original! That’s it.

I’ve noticed all of your points. I, specially, love ‘Get Extra Personal’. And I dont know but it feels like you are my good buddy/pal. Thanks, BTW. Stay blessed. It helped a lot. Thanks again.

By: Nikki Elledge Brown

Nikki Elledge Brown — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:56:17 +0000

I first heard the term “social proof” a few weeks back when listening to a Michael Hyatt podcast. I think of it more in terms of creating, demonstrating, and providing social proof rather than being it.

Simon Sinek’s TED talk on leadership mentioned the “law of diffusion of innovation” which relates here too. We are more likely to get involved, step in a line, or buy a product when we know others have gone first! The idea, product, or service has been pre-approved, so there’s less risk on our part.

Great folks posting helpful content or valuable services in a smart way will naturally attract the social proof they need to build a tribe! At least I hope. I’m starting that process now 😉

By: Cori

Cori — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:21:31 +0000

I think it all ties back to the lessons we learned when we were young: Be kind, be humble, be honest, be hard working. When you think about it, these are things you would do to gain favor with face to face interaction and people forget that just because you’re behind a computer, that doesn’t mean you can slack on being a decent human being.

Great post, thanks for the share.

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:17:54 +0000

Greg Narayan it is wow specific blogging advice and new terms woah..a hell lot of advice