How to Avoid eBay Blog Drama

The eBay Blogs community is a great place to connect with other eBayers and share your thoughts and wares. The trick is to avoid the day to day drama found on the eBay Blogs. Hi my name is ******, an eBay-blog-o-holic and I am here to share with you the steps on how to avoid the drama found on the eBay Blogs.

Whether you are new to the eBay Blogs community or have visited them in the past, these steps will help you to avoid all the drama.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Avoid drama become a lurker. The first thing you want to do is to become a lurker. A lurker is someone who visits the blogs, lurks (reads other posts) but does not comment on them. A lurker can post their own blog, but make sure you turn-off comments if you do post a blog, so that other people cannot comment on your blog post. A lurkers blog post should be simple like displaying a store listing or a specific item from your store. Lurkers DO NOT ask questions or critique others.

2. How to spot drama. One type of drama post is when you see a blog post with a questionable title, usually a borderline personal attack on another blogger. Lurk it if you will, but DO NOT post a comment in this type of post. Posting a comment on a drama post opens you up as a target so avoid it at all costs.

3. Another type of drama blog post are the political posts. In this day and age it is best to keep your political views separate from your online business. Avoid drama, avoid any and all political discussions. Just sayin, thats all, avoid them like the plague.

4. Keep an eye out for the "Regulars". You can spot them because they are there everytime you log into the blogs, day or night. You do not want to interact with them at all. One wrong comment from you and they will band together and destroy you, just ignore them. Do not engage them at all if you want to avoid drama.

5. Avoiding the drama on the eBay Blogs is easy if you can just ignore the temptation to comment on the blog posts that make your blood boil. Just ignore them and the drama will ignore you. I know its hard to ignore some of these blog posts but bite your tongue and ignore the drama, remember you have money to make.

6. The eBay blogs are basically friendly and a great place to meet nice people, just remember to follow these steps to avoid the drama and you can have many successful, positive, wonderful, drama free experiences in the eBay blogs.

Tips & Warnings

• Become a Lurker first
• Bite your tongue

Resources

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[mfahrney]

on 2/25/2009 Very good article..thanks!

[PowerSellingMom]

on 1/31/2009 I was just talking about this subject on my radio show last night: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dannacrawford/2009/01/31/Talking-eBay-with-Danna-Crawford

Thanks for sharing the tips!!! Danna