Manners & the Power of 2 Simple Words
6 December 07Thank You
Saying, writing, or typing those 2 simple words takes little to no effort. Expressing gratitude is characteristic of someone who values good manners and proper etiquette. Yet, we sometimes get distracted and tend to overlook its importance.
The value of good manners
Those 2 simple words can be explained with 2 simple reasons that go hand-in-hand:
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1. It Makes You More Attractive
Good manners will make you better looking. Of course this will do nothing for your physical attributes but, in the blogging world, personality is king because we socialize and express ourselves with written words.
Displaying good manners gives you the appearance of having a great personality. In turn, a great personality will draw people towards you like an insect is drawn towards light - they just can’t help it.
2. It Plays a Vital Role in Social Success
It is proven that in order to make it in the blogosphere, you need support. Blogging is not an army of one task. This is why hundreds of popular blogging articles stress the importance of relationship building, community, and networking.
Good manners play a major role in social success The more attractive you are, the easier and smoother time you’ll have building up your networking powerhouse…every step, however little they may be, takes you closer to your goal.
Specific Examples & Results
It’s often the little things that make a big impact. For example, I make it a practice to give +rep to people who have been helpful and gave useful info. on the forums I frequent. Doing this makes users more receptive to what I have to say or the questions I ask.
I also track down those who have discovered, reviewed, and/or gave a thumbs up to my articles on StumbleUpon so that I can message them my thanks. Although, it’s a little difficult to keep track of the thumbs up, I try my best. As a result, I’ve succeeded at getting a handful of new readers.
In addition, I received a couple of reply messages from users thanking me for thanking them, which goes to show that people are appreciative of your appreciativeness.
Other Ways to Express Thanks
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- -Send a thank-you email to those who commented on your blog
- -If you’ve read a post you enjoyed, leave a constructive thank you comment
- -If you’ve read a post you appreciated, share it with others by zooming, stumbling, or whatever your preferred bookmarking method is
These are a just a few suggestions that I also put into application. I’m sure there are many other methods of displaying thoughtfulness. What are your specific examples of giving or receiving thanks? Are there other recommendations to add to the list of ‘ways to express thanks’?
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It is true. Even in real life situations. Like stopping the car to let someone out that is driving out from another road and the acknowledge it, it really annoys me when they don’t show some sort of thanks, it’s ignorance.
Saying thanks to the bus driver is another one. You don’t mind doing things for people if they give thanks.
Yes, my point exactly Mike…people don’t mind, or mind less about, going a little out of their way for you if you show appreciation.
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As a gentleman that I am, Manners and the Power of 2 Simple Words played an important part in my life.
I wanna thank you for leaving a comment for me. At first where I gonna find this commenter since you did not leave your url.
Beside thanking you, I wanna add you to a link I add specially for Entrecard’s members who read and leave comments on my blog. A little gesture to help them by spreading a little link loves.
Like I said, it’s not about card dropping only. It’s more than that, like friendship for instance.
Sorry, for taking your times with my ramblings,
I brought along, Greetings and lotta loves from Malaysia, too - just for you.
@ArahMan7
I’m sorry about not leaving a link, but I believe Blogger no longer allows sig links other than Blogger blog urls. I would have left a link in the comment, but this is not a common practice for me because it is frowned upon as it looks a little spammy. As for leaving a comment for you, no problem ;). Your post was interesting.
It’s great that you’re a gentlemen. We need people like them [and you] online.
It’s okay for me. You can leave your url in HTML In fact, I insist upon leaving url for non-Blog*Spot users. (I did leave a message for non-Blogger users before commenting.)
And I’ve added your link too. And thanks for your kind words - I’m still blushing. (sorry, don’t know the icon for reds in the face!)
I agree with you that good manners is more important than physical attributes. You can earn respect and friends with having good manners while with just beauty you dont.Nothing beats a person with good manners
Hi there!
Funny you should have this post… I try to visit all the card droppers and advertisers from Entrecard and leave a comment as a thank you for their support.
Good manners should filter through even online…
Hi Mariam, I try to do the same thing also. And by the way, thanks for the stumble ;).
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It is not hard to say thank you to a person who did a small favor to you. Its really simple but can make a person smile back at you. There’s nothing for you to lose, thus you’re gaining from saying it.
Manners are what differentiate us from the animals. We know that we owe someone for every good deed shown upon us.We are humans with feelings to consider other feelings too.
@ettle & lei
Thanks for your thoughts.
You don’t realize how important manners are. We constantly drill our children into using them but do we? Probably not as much as we should.
@kathylynn
thanks for your thoughts.
I don’t have any children of my own, but I’m an instructor and I work with children, and I do indeed agree with you that children need constant drilling
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