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Originally Posted by LambdaAlpha602
I never said it was personal and I understand business very well. I wanted to take some time and come to the largest online community for Greeks where it would be a good place to showcase what I am selling. I am not selling items on the forum but was more looking for feedback about them. If I got people to go to the site and check them out, then great.
I would have to disagree with you, If I could pay a monthly fee and advertise here I gladly would! I am in another business venture and we only advertise on different community forums as it is one of the best way to target market!
I am not sure how showing people in a target community a new product that is related to the same common interest is a way to turn them off.
I will agree with the spelling but because this was an informal setting I was not that concerned with checking for it
Hope this clears anything up!
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You are right that you are not LITERALLY selling your items on GC. You cannot "add item to cart" through GC, nor paypal through GC...but you are MARKETING on GC, and if you try to say otherwise, you're just flat out lying. People get turned off here because GC is NOT a place to market. John used to have an ad at the top that he sold to Greek 101 or whichever store it was, and due to popular demand, he got rid of it, and no longer sells ads. That is why people are turned off by markting on here.
Also, people are turned off by the "false" advertising. Anyone can join and claim to be selling something as a "member" - but, in fact, if you join and over half of your posts are to market your product, I don't consider you a member.
Now, take the case of CrimsonTide4. She's an author who just happens to be the top poster on GC, so you better believe that she used GC to market her book. BUT - she's also been a member for YEARS and litereally has 10,000 other post that have nothing to do with her book, so people respect that.