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One of the things that stands out like a boil on a bishop's nose on social sites like this is the difference between ad blogs and others.

"Ad blogs" don't get read.

Sure, they get loads of posts - but look at how many times these posts are looked at.  Sometimes you will see that a few people have visited but there are very few comments posted - if any.

Maybe one of the reasons is that many ad blogs are posted to by members who only want to advertise and so, disappear after their post. To me, this means that the value of the ads in these blogs is not recognised - they are only there on the off chance that someone will read them and, since everybody appears to be a marketer, why am I not surprised?

Better attended are the "marketing tips blogs". These do get read and are often responded to.

So, where does one go if there is an ad that you want to be read, which does not directly involve internet marketing but which does give internet marketers the chance to introduce friends to a business in which they have no (other than pecuniary) interest for themselves?

The obvious places do not allow ads.

Using the Bulletins doesn't help unless you have signed up a significant number of Apsense recruits (Yes, we are all aware that the only people who might possibly be interested in our buletins are our own recruits in the wonderfully Quixotic world of the web.)

So . . . . . . . . . . just where can you put a proposition forward that might be of value and interest to the friends of members of Apsense?