Rant: Don't Be an Internet Marketing Leech
UPDATE: Ugh I feel horrible. She emailed me back, apologizing profusely, asking how to make a new domain, saying she admires me, etc. Didn't do it intentionally. I feel wretched. I got all caught up in rip off people and didn't look for the good in people as I should. My panties got in a wad before I had time to calm down. Blech. I like being a nice marketer, not a mean one.
I don't mind competitors. In fact, I've had people come to me and ask me to help them launch a site in direct competition to mine and I even made them video tutorials for free to help them.
BUT (and I have a big BUT LOL)...
I do NOT like it when someone leeches off of the branding that I worked hard to create for my site. Someone on my lists launched a website where she just added one extra word to the domain - but on the site itself, she talks about the name of her site EXACTLY as mine is named (without the extra word thrown in).
So I'm sure Google's going to index it (it is actually) and she'll be found when people are searching for my site by name. They'll land there. They'll assume it's me because they won't click the About link to see who's behind it. They'll see how she misspells words like: "I want to help people with [b]there[/] writing" - and they'll assume it's me who can't spell.
They may buy the product and not be happy with the poor quality and then go back to Google, type in the site name, find MY site, and pester me with customer service issues until we finally figure out the customer bought from the other site. They may spread word of mouth about that site being bad and everyone will assume it's mine.
It's just a nightmare. To me, it's like opening a burger restaurant named Wendis instead of Wendys. BE ORIGINAL! Come up with your OWN name.
I don't mind review sites that use the original product owner's domain in them - because the original owner is having traffic directed back to their site for sales. But intentionally misleading consumers into thinking they're buying from one person when they're not is a total FAIL.
/Rant
Tiff
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