My face is red.
I’ve logged onto Biznik, my favorite social networking site, several times a day for months. When I Google them (try it; you’ll like it!) this description comes up: “Grow your business faster and more profitably with Biznik, the local, independent business networking community where collaboration beats competition.”
Fast forward to this blog. My tagline? “Marketing to women to grow your business faster and more profitably.”
Crap!
(Hold on a sec. Whew. Just changed it to: “Smart marketing to women to grow your business.”)
Who knew you could plagerize and not even know it? I once invited you to delve into the unconscious mind of your customers. Perhaps diving into my own isn’t a bad plan!
See if people are copying you without permission with Copyscape, a free service that scours the internet to find your content. All you need to do is type in the address of your web page.
It’s a snap to use – takes all of 30 seconds, tops. Try it, and tell me what you find.
That is a really neat service! Thanks for sharing it. I didn’t find any copycats of my website, thank goodness.
Thanks for writing, Naomi. It is a great service – and super-easy!
Lynn,
I can’t tell you how many times this has happened to me. And recently a bizinik I met when we gave our e-newsletter workshop in Bellingham described an article she had just submitted for a Whatcom County business journal and I had written one on the very same topic for a biz newspaper in King County. The content was nearly identical. Both coming out in the March issues.
I say, great minds think alike!
You did not explain what to do if and when one does find someone who copied his ideas.
Nothing, because the idea was not original in the first place?
I don’t think it should be called copying. It is more like green energy, you recycle it. That should reduce a lot of the thrash out there and save planet internet.