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Download NowOne gentleman from a very large, very well-recognized company posts content on his company’s internal blog. He leads an inside sales team and provides content to help them better perform in their roles. He’s been posting frequently, and a lot of people on his team like his ideas. But his strategy has a few problems.
I emailed this gentleman on LinkedIn and thanked him for sharing my content, asking that he please attribute it to me, and explaining how helpful that was to me in allowing me to be known as a value creator in big companies like his. I also politely suggested he could also take it down, if he thought there were a better choice.
When he didn’t reply to my first email on LinkedIn, I sent a second. Again he didn’t reply. So I sent a note to him directly to his work email, worried that his leaders would be told that he was plagiarizing my work and reprimand him–or worse. I didn’t want to see that happen.
Finally, he removed my content rather than attribute it to me (which might have embarrassed him).
A lot of sales managers and sales leaders use the content I post here to run their weekly meetings. Some of them also use my weekly newsletter as their Monday morning sales team meeting. And a bunch of people email posts to their whole teams.
You don’t need my content (or anyone else’s for that matter) for your blog. You have your own ideas, thoughts, views, and experiences, all of which are every bit as valid as mine.
Plagiarizing makes you look bad. Citing other people’s work makes you look learned, smart even.
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