ForumsHome

I agree with puzzleman in part; the site should be wide open, including the voices of marketers. I appreciate the wisdom of the SBOC team in establishing the "Business Classifieds" forum, which is specifically for sharing ones wares with whomever may be interested. Maybe the effort should be to encourage usage of that forum instead of banning folks who want to make a little money. After all, isn't that what they'er in business for?

Luckiest, did you ever hear back from DomainDiva about the three of us getting on a call? I will email her about it.

As for the huge conference call, I think we need to determine who wants to coordinate it, are we going to have an agenda, and the time and place for the meetings. Finding a location where we can get together in our individual locations is going to be a task.

I suggest we get the details down before we make a broad announcement. But that is just a suggestion.

I'm interested in participating in the conference.
AMSPCS
amspcs@juno.com
www.MerchantServices-help.com

Milleisen. Thanks for the compliment and the post. I know that this site and community is heavily surfed by a lot of "observers" that don't necessarily post a specific question or participate in answering ... so each of us that respond to posts and contributes should try to not only answer questions as best we can with some detail, but we should also inject value so that passive readers gain something by it as well.

Hi there,

Thanks to those of you who are supporting my solution on the thread "Online Business Consulting". Did you get my thank you e-card? I thought it was so funny. What do you think? I'm happy to incentivize the participation with the courtesy of a personal acknowledgement. School's about to start and I'm likely to focus my participation along this thread to save time while continuing networking.

As you can see, the newest poster comes across as a potential example of what we have been discussing. He didn't leave profile information but I was happy to take a look into him and respond to one of his posts as a courtesy.

Finally, the SEO tip I left as an example of the advice value available here is now substantiated. In less than two days, Google result for Online Business Consulting puts the thread at #4 just a couple spots behind SCORE. So for those of you who do contribute advice or have an interest in picking up clients through networking on this site, I think there is another incentive for you to participate.

Here's the link. http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread/7574?tstart=30

Now those of you who have taken an interest in influencing this community for the better by participating in the conversation "Posting For The Sake Of Posting" have the opportunity to make yourself known at the top of the list, demonstrate a proactive reinforcement of the community guidelines, and have something to offer new members who's posts you find dubious toward the desired professional culture etc. The thread is obviously sink or swim. It can quickly sink beneath the flood of recent posts out of sight- much like many of the new member's who post- whether they be constructive or annoying. So I will offer it to new members on occasions I visit back and appreciate anyone who pays it forward. The final utility is now I will get an update into my e-mail for any member who introduces themselves on this thread. The same is true for anyone else who posts there.

I believe you can update your e-mail watch lists if you do not want to receive your updates. Not sure if you can choose specific threads to take off. If you find the thread annoying, then I will consider stopping my promotion of it and sign it off. If you think sending the e-cards in innappropriate then I will consider stopping this as well. Overall, I think this is a good thing and a pre-composed way we can all support a proactive solution without constantly needing to bring the subject up again.

Thanks for the conferencing tool Luckiest. I will research it. I'm going to be a little too busy to organize the conference myself. I'd like to be invited when it does happen and I agree starting small will give us a chance to test it out before promoting major conferences. If no one takes action to make it happen, I will eventually put together my own and invite you all.

Best,

Anthony

Posting For The Sake of Posting, Kudos Lighthouse, Very Appropriate

Additional tips:
(MORE Tongue in cheek) Here are some extra tips to help

• If you made any edits before you got an account, you might be interested in* assigning those to your username* .
• If you want to play around with your new skills, try Freecell.
• Click on the Edit button on a page, and look at how other editors did what they did??.

LUCKIEST

I am not quite sure I understand the rasberry and coughs but I think some cold medicine might help.

Any ways I must say I am in agreement with this being a relevant posting, and we need to (ahem) make some changes to implement(achoo) spam prevention(strawberry).

I hope this(rasberry-hack) we can stand strong in our(achoo-bananna) to prevent spam.