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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: MaaMaw In Response To: Lesley, I Hate To Tell You This....... (Rooster)
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, at 11:11 a.m.
> But telling the world you are an idiot does not exactly inspire confidence
> in you by those who read those words...Would YOU want to do business with
> somebody who proclaimed themselves an idiot?...I sure wouldn't!...
Sure I would!
I'm an honest idiot!
And my idiocy doesn't affect the people who do business with me -- it affects ME, and MY success.
If I weren't so obsessed about offering "only the best" on this site -- if I could say, "Hey, that looks decent... I'll plop it up!" -- then I would have made lots more money.
I don't think there's any harm done by confessing that.
> O.K., you say this:
> "I'm also an idiot because I haven't done ANY of the things I should
> have
> done to promote this site and this board. With the exception of posting on
> other boards (which I haven't done for over TWO YEARS!), I have done
> NOTHING to promote it. Zippy, Skippy. And that makes me an idiot"....
I have always considered this site a success. To me, averaging even $500 a month while doing virtually nothing other than keeping up with my board is successful.
I could manage with that amount of success, so the motivation to add another 6 hours to my 12-hour-workdays-not-counting-homeschooling just wasn't there.
> (Oh how true! and you know why I say that)...What you started this January
> should have been done the year before instead of leaving ME to keep the
> forum going...
Roo, I know that's been stuck in your craw for a really long time now, but it isn't accurate.
You did a *TON* to help me keep this board going, and I am eternally grateful -- but not *one* single day went by -- *ever* -- since the day I started this board in 1998 (except when my father died) -- that I did not get on this board at *least* half a dozen times a day or night (usually at least twice that), skim through the posts, stop to read what I could, and nuke the spam that was up when I came by.
Even when we moved, we couldn't leave the motel until I got done checking the board and nuking spam and editing messages here and there.
I even logged on from a library one trip because it happened to be next to the fast-food place where we had lunch.
Just because I didn't post didn't mean I wasn't here.
You were nuking 20 or 30 spams at a pop, and so was I. It was completely out of control for a long time (so much so that I even considered shutting the board down at night like I used to do in the olden days when FIB had a flower on the cover instead of MaaMaw).
As you can see by the *many* dissertations I have posted recently, I am incapable of writing short answers or joining in to a limited extent. Believe me, I've tried, but unless my answer is snappy for a purpose, I just can't do it.
It's not something I'm proud of, but it's who I am. It's a handicap I have.
Why did I go underground?
Because I had to work my butt off to earn a living. My business suffered a setback, and I had to take back piles and piles of typing that I thought were farmed out forever. When I "went missing," I had two little kids to think about. I was trying to homeschool and type, and every waking *second* was spent running around like a turkey with a tin can stuck on its head.
I "tended" the board, but I did not participate.
I never deserted the board or you.
When I moved here "the year before," I intended to do a limited amount of typing and build my internet business -- but I panicked when we couldn't make it, and I started taking more and more typing, and I was back where I started.
The typing ended, and here I am.
I did desert my email, because I was getting almost 2,000 spams a day for several months, and I couldn't deal with it -- but I kept up with my personal email, and you have always had that address.
Please, Rooster...
I'm happy you're back, and I don't want to fight with you again, but I'm not going to let the "desertion" myth stand.
> Procrastination pays no dividends...
Not taking care of my mail every day is procrastination.
Not diving into an internet business when I was typing hours and hours and hours every day and homeschooling two kids wasn't procrastination -- it was a conscious decision I made because I wasn't going to let Katie get any older with a mother who didn't have *any* time for her.
> The longer you wait the deeper the
> hole you are digging for yourself...
Which is why I've been at this full time since the typing dried up. I'm working my tail off, there's no money to show for it yet, and I am have having more fun than one human being should be allowed to have :-D
> One other thing...Would you mind telling me just how a BLOG contributes to
> your income?...Maybe I am just old and stupid but I don't get it...
I'm not sure yet.
I started it for three reasons:
1. I am not good at mailings, and I'm hoping to use the blog the way I would have used mailings, with the occasional promotion, ads, etc.
2. I miss Boardwatch.
3. Lots smarter marketers than me swear by their blogs.
The end.
Luv,
MaaMaw
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