Bekit
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- Aug 13, 2018
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Some observations and a hypothesis:
Observations:
Hypothesis:
Why would this be in a forum full of business owners? My guess is that...
The result is that Sell-Me-Saturday has started to attract a higher percentage of people who are new users, perhaps who open an account only for the purpose of using this as an advertising channel. It would be interesting to go back through the last couple of months and see how many (if any) of the "new contributor" accounts who posted something for sale ever branched out and contributed value to the forum.
The downside of this is that the offers become largely uninteresting. If I want to hire an upwork-type job, I would prefer to go to upwork than to trust a "new contributor" with 0 forum rep.
The bigger downside is that if there IS an active, reputable forum member who is providing great value and hustling to get some gigs using Sell-Me-Sat, the likelihood that they will get the eyeballs of someone who is looking to hire goes down dramatically if forum members have largely dismissed this channel as a low-value collection of newbies.
As a possible solution to defend the value of this channel, @MJ DeMarco, I wonder if it would be worthwhile to make this a channel where you have to hit a certain threshold of speed points before you are allowed to post.
Observations:
- The first few sell me Saturdays, we had a few long-time forum members post.
- Since then, though, it seems like it has been mostly new contributors with something for sale.
- The overall quality of these posts seems to have gone down over the last month or two.
- Lately, the type of offers seems to have clustered around promoting blogs or podcasts or upwork-style gigs, such as copywriting or odd jobs or VA-style work, rather than the type of products that I know the fastlane members of the forum are creating.
Hypothesis:
Why would this be in a forum full of business owners? My guess is that...
- Some forum members with successful business don't want their real-world business name attached in any way to their forum name.
- Some active users of the forum are still in the slowlane or don't have something for sale yet in their fastlane venture.
- Many of those who do have a successful physical product are already advertising it successfully elsewhere, and they don't see this channel as a method to get a substantial uptick in sales.
The result is that Sell-Me-Saturday has started to attract a higher percentage of people who are new users, perhaps who open an account only for the purpose of using this as an advertising channel. It would be interesting to go back through the last couple of months and see how many (if any) of the "new contributor" accounts who posted something for sale ever branched out and contributed value to the forum.
The downside of this is that the offers become largely uninteresting. If I want to hire an upwork-type job, I would prefer to go to upwork than to trust a "new contributor" with 0 forum rep.
The bigger downside is that if there IS an active, reputable forum member who is providing great value and hustling to get some gigs using Sell-Me-Sat, the likelihood that they will get the eyeballs of someone who is looking to hire goes down dramatically if forum members have largely dismissed this channel as a low-value collection of newbies.
As a possible solution to defend the value of this channel, @MJ DeMarco, I wonder if it would be worthwhile to make this a channel where you have to hit a certain threshold of speed points before you are allowed to post.