[b]Why is this happening?[/b]

I must admit when I first came to apsense I started out placing my "blatent" ads. After maybe placing 5 or 6 of these ads I began to see a lot more potential(thanks to some great people). Right now, apsense is a place where I come to reflect, I do my marketing on the outside in a profession manner. I do believe the business center is the place to advertise, some day I'll set mine up, for now I'm happy just to post my two cents. As far as the copy and pasters goes, that is a tough one. These

Beautiful post, Karen!

Patience is the key.
Getting to know folks takes lots of patience and persistence.
Thank goodness for the business center link!

Paula/BoomSpress

Thanks Chris for letting me know about my web site i had no Idea it had snow on it LOL it took me a little bit but I found it and have remove it:)
and thanks you for giving me advice here.

I believe when one is new to something, anything they can not learn it all over night or on their own. we all need help with understanding the way things work within a new program and I for one am glad there are people out here that help!!

I have been to a couple off sites and there is no help at all to ho

OK. No more apologies please. Everybody stuffs up sometimes and we all make an error of judgement. APSense will improve. The kind people at head office will get all the feedback they want and make adjustments as necessary, and another thing. Get get rid of the egos too. "My discussion thinghy has more members than yours, Na na nan nana!" That's pathetic. It's not who has the most members its the quality of the content. OK, back to work everybody. Have an exceptional day...

John in the UK.

Bridgette,
I for one don't feel you owe anyone an apology. I have seen your ads, adn like mine, you placed them in the groups that advertised they wanted ads. The fact that several showed up on the front page at the same time, is a function of how Apsense currently works right now.

However, to take someone else's advice earlier in here, might be better to delay some time between them. That would serve two purposes, one, not flood the front page with repeats of your ad. Secondly, and possi

HI I guess Im a culprit also I thought it was okay to post isnt that what were here to do, I guess I thought wrong also Im sorry also and maybe it should be some clarity to where and how we can post without lookin like were spamming

Hi All,

BJ thanks for the kudos for thinking up the Category idea - and yes "bang bang you're dead"

I strongly believe that with a list of Categories on the front page it would then be easy for people to find the discussions that interest them without having to go through a long list. and then the list wouldnt have to be on the front page either - so no problem about fairness.

The notifications of discussions for the Groups that we have already joined , or that are in our upline network are

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Hmmm! This one seems like it's going to run. So basically APSense runs like this. We join through an invite. we get the opportunity to promote ourself, our bus/op, our whatever takes our fancy and other people can do the same thing. We then start our own group discussion and others join in. Sometimes they don't and your left all alone. Ahhh! never mind. There is another group to peruse during your downtime from building your business. Yippee...

Ok you might be an over achiever and be doing t

I'm reading Doug's concerns and have given this some thought. As has been pointed out, APSense is in its infancy and we are ALL still learning how to most effectively use it. This type of meaningful discussion is what a community is really all about!

The message that APSense will put your ad in front of 1000s, could cause confusion for the new member. It does not state HOW best to put your ad in front of those thousands. In my opinion, you can contribute MEANINGFUL content to various grou

Just to Clarify and give credit where due, the original idea of Categories for groups goes to Jenny, aka Alasycia. she is however off line at the moment. Went off at about 2 am here in Europe. no staying power lol
(She going to kill me for that one.)


Bj

Sorry it took so long to get back here. But, I was eating pasta..lol
The Categories sound like they would work out well. But, which category would be showed on the front page..if any..and would members decide what category their group would be listed under. Once again we could be dealing with the issue of what group or category pulls more weight. Lynn

Hi BJ,

I agree. I think we have come up with a good idea, but here are a lot of others that have voiced dissatisfaction with the status quo. No is their time to raise their voice in support of this idea, suggest a modification, or suggest another alternative. TO just post complaints is not constructive in any form. We need ideas.

Doug

Hi Doug,

Yes it would mean more work for the APSense team but as it says at the top of the pages "...Driven By You"
APSense in my opinion will never be a totally completed project as it is dynamic.

Also as it is still young it will only be by our feed back and constructive suggestions that things will be made even better than they are, and yes they are very good right now, but as with anything new there is always room for change and improvement.

As long as we have good respectful dis

Bob - I know it can be frustrating at times, but there are so many different groups and many want to benefit by posting to as many as they can in order to reach a larger audience. You have to consider that this tyupe of activity will go on here because truth be told, Apsense is a networking site. I had to leave a few groups because I was getting to many messages daily . I also just delete the extras and move on

Hi Raku,

Welcome to the conversation.

May I respectfully suggest that if you read the previous posts in this thread you will find out exactly how we know.

Marketing is most welcome by all. However there is a right and a wrong way to do it.
Posting in every group you can find as fast as you can find them is definatly not marketing and only serves to damage the the reputation of the person doing it.

Bj
Bill brown aka bjantiques.

BJ,

That is the beauty of discussion groups here on Apsense. Differnet points of views can be raised, and then hoefully intelligently discussed, and before you know it, concensus occurs.

I would welcome the idea of having different categories for differnt kinds of groups. I think that is a very workable solution. True, and I apologize Apsense, that would require some additional programming on Apsense's part, but I agree with you, I think it would be well worth it.

However, once that

I wonder, how do you know these people are going from group to group unless you are doing the same thing? Is Apsense a place to vent our anger and frustrations . I was invited here on the premise that it was a community in which marketing is welcome and encouraged. Now I read this. Are you pissed off about something and taking it out here? Because I don't think you have a valid complaint. When you are channel surfing you see the same ad on channel after channel...do you call the station a

Hi Doug,

I agree that everyones post is important to them. What I am concerned with is the members that show no consideration for other members and flood post.

You are and have raised valid points in each post.

One line of thought that a member asked my opinion on would be to have Categories listed for the Groups as is done with the Business Centers.

That way people who are looking for groups on say marketing can go to that category, someone looking for Arts and crafts can go to t

BJ,

I understand and accept your point about the cut, paste and run tactics used by many. However, no one has addressed the point I wasa trying to make. Apsense advertises that by joining you can literally broadcast your ads to 1,000's of desktops, with out the ads being ignored or filtered.

Are you suggesting that we advertise this to prospects enticing them to join Apsense, and then when they do, say, ummmm no, don't do that! I can't think of anything that would destroy the integrit