Comments on: If Your Website Was a Person…

By: Rhea Drysdale

Rhea Drysdale — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:00:02 +0000

Awww… (forces Lisa to hug me).

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:47:38 +0000

This is a great blog. I think my website is some where between “The Know It All” & “The Show Off” but after reading this I will be making some changes to better reorganize my information, delete some very good, in-dept but other wise useless knowledge & high light the most importuning part of my website and that is the jobs. Thank you.

By: Kelly Kautz

Kelly Kautz — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:45:46 +0000

The creeper kind of reminds me of the guy from this campaign:
http://www.wastingwaterisweird.com

By: Rufus Dogg

Rufus Dogg — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:37:54 +0000

*Phewww* Thank goodness Lisa didn’t start down the “If your blog was a dog breed…” path. I’d be outed for sure!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:22:57 +0000

hahah I hate the one upper!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:19:07 +0000

The Creeper! LMAO that one really got me laughing and the know it all.

I can put personal faces to them LOL

I think the 1-uper is missing..that person who is always trying to one up everyone 8)

By: Peter Westlund

Peter Westlund — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:04:52 +0000

Perfect way to end friday night – web pages personified.. =) Funny also because it’s TRUE.. omg.

Thanks
Peter Westlund (@bastlund)

By: Jerry McCarthy

Jerry McCarthy — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:46:42 +0000

Lisa,
Wow! You have a gift Lisa, that’s all I can say. There are tens of millions of web personalities lingering in what I call, the Online Graveyard. These are websites stuck in suspended animation condemned to cyberspace until forever for their missteps, one of them being unlikable.
Here’s an off the charts analogy to match this “off the scales” post; we all know a business partner is like a second spouse. You’d better damn sure like their personality or there’s a divorce coming down the pipe. Would you continue working with them if you didn’t mesh with their personality? I don’t think so. Silly Rabbit a website is another partner in YOUR business: Why would you expect it to survive without a winning personality? If one captain on your ship sucks, you’re in for a major swell. Thanks Lisa. Really. Wow. You’re a serious (great) writer. Have a great weekend!! Oh and the ‘know it all” is ALL too familiar. Ha!

By: Robert Brady

Robert Brady — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:30:48 +0000

Another one: “The Scandalous Patty”

The woman at work who wears shirts cut a little too low, skirts a little too short and wears more makeup than Bozo the Clown. When it comes to the line regarding professional dress she’s pretty much on the wrong side, but keeps one toe on the line.

These are the otherwise credible sites, selling less-exciting products and services, who feel that a little skin will sell the product. This malady usually begins in their advertising campaigns and creeps onto the site itself.

By: Abe Bellini

Abe Bellini — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:25:19 +0000

You make some great points here. Every website certainly has a personality and its up to the management to control the message that is being put out. The industry you are in may have already have a writing style. Its up to business owners to research what their best competitors are writing.