“Highly amazing dry cleaning services” and other bullcrap
By: Stu Bloom
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A dry cleaner's website and blog posts should primarily educate and inform. So, ignore those websites and blog posts that can only be charitably described as bullcrap.
What does this sentence actually mean?
“In a nutshell, highly appealing dry cleaning services are offered at comparatively reduced options while the availed attractive discounts make the service options more affordable to an extent of creating a mutual relationship with clients.”
This is the final paragraph of a blog post appearing on a Georgia, USA dry cleaner’s website.
Can anyone explain what this sentence actually means?
Many dry cleaners have been led to believe that it’s critical to add blog posts to their websites in order to “engage with a wider audience.” This has led to a proliferation of blog posts on dry cleaner websites that can best be described as bullcrap.
There are some common threads running through these posts:
- They are highly generalized in nature and don’t even apply to the dry cleaner in question.
- They appear to have been written by someone who has never set foot in a dry cleaner or by a dry cleaner who is technically ignorant.
- They appear to have been outsourced to penny-per-word drivel farms or written by an automaton.
- They’re just a jumble of unintelligible words and phrases devoid of any technical or other meaning.
- There are more superlatives than facts running through these posts.
- They have no informational or educational value for the reader.
- They appear to have been first written in a foreign language and then run through translation software that translates foreign languages to 18th Century English.
- The identical post appears on the websites of many different dry cleaners across the USA.
[ctt template=”3″ link=”undefined” via=”no” ]A dry cleaner website should educate and inform. If that also serves to promote their services, that is a secondary benefit. So, ignore the superlatives and gobbledygook designed solely to promote. Focus, instead, on the quality of product they actually deliver. @ravefabricare [/ctt]
Try to make sense of this blog post
You don’t have to be an English major to get a hearty chuckle from this piece of drivel:
Highly amazing dry cleaning services
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Furthermore, highly pleasing dry cleaners can be spotted via the modern websites that hold custom icons to enable clients to identify their desired dry cleaning options, be able to book appointments and as well be in a position to receive frequent updates. Incredibly, highly reliable dry cleaning companies assure legal services by holding the best licensing options while the obtained certifications with regulatory bodies assure superior dry cleaning services that have been screened fully. In a nutshell, highly appealing dry cleaning services are offered at comparatively reduced options while the availed attractive discounts make the service options more affordable to an extent of creating a mutual relationship with clients.
A dry cleaner’s website and blog should educate and inform
At RAVE FabriCARE, we’ve always strived to educate and inform — even if you’ll never use our services. Because the more you know about garment, household textile and accessory care, the better you’ll be able to challenge your dry cleaner when they “feed you a line.”
I like to say that our website is a free, 24/7 trade show for all questions you might have about garment, household textile and accessory care.
Maybe this is the reason we’ve been referred to as the “Best Online Resource For Cleaning Questions” by an influential blogger on fine menswear.
The takeaway
Here’s the takeaway from this post:
- Beware of dry cleaner websites and blog posts that are solely designed to promote. Hyperbolic websites and blog posts hardly ever correlates to true quality.
- Ignore dry cleaner websites and blog posts that are laden with superlatives. Instead, ask yourself whether they inform you what they do, why they do it that way, what ordinary cleaners do and why they’d never do what ordinary dry cleaners do?
- Ignore dry cleaner websites and blog posts that are laden with gobbledygook and other jargon: Instead, ask yourself whether they educate and inform — in plain English?
- Look for dry cleaners who are independently recommended. For example, is the dry cleaner recommended by nationally known, authoritative, independent third parties and by an array of well-known department stores, boutiques, custom clothiers, bridal salons and handbag and shoe salons
- Look for dry cleaners with dozens of positive reviews on independent sites such as Yelp and Google. In this regard, ignore those dry cleaners with a handful of 5 Star reviews from independent review sites (they’re probably insider reviews anyhow) and ignore those dry cleaners with hundreds of 5 Star reviews from non-independent review sites (these sites are operated by the dry cleaners themselves).
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Stu Bloom
Stu Bloom is Founder and President of RAVE FabriCARE. RAVE FabriCARE, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, cares for fine garments, household textiles and accessories and serves clients throughout the USA and Canada. Stu is the author of various ebooks on these subjects, all of which are available from www.ravefabricare.com/freestuff. He is an evangelist for true quality cleaning and is a contributor to and editor of True Quality Cleaning, RAVE FabriCARE’s blog. You can find Stu on Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn.
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