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Thanks, Rebecca. You’re an engaging conversationalist.

And yes, I’m determined to have a great day – if it’s the last thing I’d do.

It doesn’t hurt to smile at anyone and may well cheery up their day. You will probably never see that person again, and have nothing else in common, but the fleeting moment of peace and warmth that comes from a simple smile is something that can be echoed by a quick word of recognition or popping by someone’s work and saying “ooh, I like that, well done!”

Even if that person never stops by again, a little positive message and a little lift in your self-confidence has resulted, and we are all the richer for that. So, artificially-induced or not, followed-up or not, a little mutual support can only be for the good of us all. Like a smile from a stranger, just because it’s a nice day!

Having said that, I don’t believe in saying something is good if it clearly isn’t. Better to say nothing at all other than, “hello”. Constructive advice is good if it is carefully worded, and from that, friendships may come.

Those early, polite exchanges can indeed blossom into full friendships, but if all they remain is a couple of polite and friendly exchanges, we’re all still better for that.

So, here’s a smile for you Jan, and I hope you have a great day, and I can’t wait to read your next incisive blog! Great stuff!!

Rebecca,x.

True, it seems that way at the outset. The sad fact is you can’t get ahead on the net if you don’t make it clear the reader gets something in return. It’s just human nature to take care of number one. We have to appeal to that reader’s need. What’s-in-it-for-me is one inescapable truism in the net as it is in real life.

We need to deliver our end of the bargain with readers.

Having said that, we need to progress from that initial stage of tit-for-tat reader engagement. Make it more meaningful and satisfying in the course of our dealing with them. That deepening engagement, of course, still has to be worked on. Like marriage. Ahahaha.

Oh boy, you’ve set me off on this one. Thank you, Rebecca. Nice exchanging ideas with you.

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Okay, can I just say that this post rocks. Would you like to exchange link with me? But you would have to do that first okay.

Hold it LJ, before you react. Didn’t I just catch your attention? I have been practicing that. Just to keep you reading the comment. Maybe there is more and maybe this guy will say something that will surprise you. Okay, I don’t know what to say next. Blah…

You know, there is a captured audience here already, now how do we expand the numbers? Some folks who are already in a group perhaps, so their group, plus our group, plus another group. The more people who read, the more powerful your words will become.

Of course, power isn’t anything. But, the content of what you write. Thank goodness I haven’t seen a blogger as accommodating as you, or else, I’d be saying formal stuff here and there. Leaving a two liner the most, but your posts combined with the personal touch of your comments make me (a reader) want to come back for more. Addicting. Best of all, you are giving away your tips to everyone.

More power Jan and to your new home, we’ll break the champagne and set you to sea. (Yikes! Is this a boat?) LOL

Z

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