you know what's also weird? there are so many sponsored pilots you guys are all promoting stuff to each other! i don't quite get that one but feel free to post your content. if nobody advertises then we'll eventually run out of steam and the manufacturers will have to find someplace else to promote their stuff.
sorry for posting the long answer first.....Yes. I'm thinking about whether or not we need to ask manufacturers to be enlisted at the site as advertisers before their team members can post reviews and other promotions. It all goes back to who is supporting the site and who is just taking advantage of our great community of modelers.
Well, now I have a problem with this....... Understandably a website is a business, not a business I fully understand (or care to for that matter).
Being a business owner myself I'm going to share something. Many years ago the company that I pretty much make my living off of had me laser a plaque to put in the waiting area that at the time I though twas pretty bold. It says: "
Attention solicitors, before you try to sell us anything please be prepared to answer what is is you intend to do to help us be more productive and increase our profitability". Now that I have been in business for 16 years for myself I completely understand this, every dollar matters and the most expensive dollars that a company spends are it's advertising dollars. It's the equivalent to any of us sitting down to a roulette table, you could win, you could loose but with luck you leave with what you had to start with.
Now that said, I've busted my ass to try to help and create content for GSN and asked basically nothing in return. I'm pretty proud that my content has generated 220,119 views, 100K+ pictures and 4205 posts in the past 14 months alone on GSN. CONTRARY TO WHAT ONE PARTICULAR MEMBER THINKS, I have done
NON of this to try to glorify myself I do it because I love the hobby and I enjoy other people that like the hobby more because they learned something or how to do something better. Been here since the beginning, through lost content, slow site, software changes, revamps, etc. etc.
Additionally, Before most of us new Bart we game to GSN in droves to support SleepyC, I didn't even know him that well myself. Like many I pulled up ties and came here. In the end after hundreds of hours spent creating content to support and promote Sleepy's new site. Spending my own money for GSN banners, and shirts that were given away. I was thanked like many with him leaving, and was further thanked by him unfriending me and Lori on facebook . Pretty sweet. Your welcome I guess. It is completely meaningless to me other than the fact that it takes a physical act to do which must take some forethought in doing. Whatever, over it, just an example and no sweat off my back.
So NOW here we are today, since I'm friends with different manufacturers that I choose to support........perhaps I get a discount, perhaps I don't. That is non of GSN's business. From some I get a sticker and free shipping......lucky me I suppose but I NEVER.....EVER ask for these things!!! Like helping friends here on GSN, some of my friends own businesses.
Just thinking that maybe it's GSN's job as a company to solicit companies
with intent to inform them what it is that they can do to add to that particular companies bottom line rather than someone like me who is focused on bringing traffic to a site like GSN and helping and educating the general population that is here.
