And Jim I am so excited for you and wanted to say Im behind you if you need anything

You got style lol lol

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Wow this sure is alot of great reading theres so much info on this topic.
I would like to say there must be a way to know who has won without having to search it out in forums there is so many who have won multiple times thru the years that maybe you should start fresh with a feature of someone just who is a community leader or someone who makes a difference to others.

So many of the people who are nominees dont even relize they have been chosen. I think its time to start something different to feature a person. The voting forum and picking people have really created alot of demise over the years and therefore so many have left because of the negitive feedback.

I think something new should come forth on who really is a shining light to the community, no votes just pick someone each month who contributes to the community.
Just my thought

Kathy Hamilton/simikathy

I agree Kathy

First off we have to find who won this year.And in December comming up 52 weeks a year we have to go through close to 50 winners to know who not to pick.
From there we have to pick our member we want to nominate and go through there info plus the forums they have activity in and how recent.
Now for the person that is in adlandpro on business and busy they won't go through all of this.So it ends up just a hand full of us are finding candidates for that weeks POTW.

So i;m thinking how to change this to have many more candidates.
We'll it's easy once it's known how it works and the members get into it.

We have last weeks winner as a pop up now.
On the Pop up we state that every person can nominate themselves
We have a link on the pop up the one Sam Hall on that brings to a new POTW topic
Once in that forum have them view the rules to see if they qualify
From there they continue to a forum that they can post that they want to run for POTW

This could build pretty fast and we could end up with a load of candidates
So the POTW team can pick them as they come in Check them out if they qualify they are added to the running of that weeks POTW.
Another thing is once they've posted they would like to run for POTW they'll be interested to see if they made it that week so they'll go into the POTW forum to check of there running and if so they'll place there vote.If not they'll place there vote for someone else.

It could work what do you all think

Dennis

These discussions are not sitting right with me.

What I'd like to see is for newer nominees to be properly advised by the person who nominated them, on how to promote themselves, especially by participating in public forums consistently, preferably with non-ad posts, nominees need to be advised on how to gain a loyal fanbase and how to WIN, from their activity in Adlandpro Community, not in Facebook, Why ??????. not by joining a business and letting their biz team vote on them while they don't have any activity themselves.

I still think whoever nominates someone should coach the nominee on promoting themself before the ballot is posted and during the week of the election. I think the person who nominates someone should give full support to their nominee before & during the election.

If you nominate someone now you need to do what? coach them? Tell them what they should or should not do, and by who's standards? Now you think that by nominated someone that they should be

their campaign manager? Why don't you write up something that can be used as a template newsletter with what you think each one should do with getting votes, where to get them, how to present them selfs, how to act, how not to act, what other sources they can use, where they can't ask their other friends to come in and vote for them and so on. If I nominate someone or anyone else for that matter, why should they take on the task of being their campaign manager? Making a suggestion to do something… then do a what you think the letter should say and bring it forward so other members can add to it, or input their ideas. That way all new voting contestants will receive the same information to help them with their votes.

Suggestion with mail in votes, coaching, campaign managers, are suggesting putting more work on others. Mail in votes are nuts, as there is a poll that tracks all that already. Coaching can be a prewritten letter that goes out after it is put together, and presented to all for editing before publishing.

What if all people, if they qualify or not, does not want to be voted for?

Like me, I do not wish to run, or have the time to put froward a get votes campaign right now as my work load and projects are full.

The idea of nominated their selfs to want to run may be a great idea.

This one should be looked into along with if someone is nominated, to have the choice.

As far as more forums, not sure about this one. Can't all nomination suggestions and "I want to run" be done in one central location without the added forums?

Qualifying Rules I think are all already placed in the opening page of the main voting thread.

Changing the name of the suggesting thread so all know thats where all nomination suggestions, and "want to run" communication are held and monitored

is another option with out the added forums.

The idea on the pop up with members knowing they can ask to run is an idea too.

I kind of like that one. All information with qualifications rules and links to get there should be at the main voting forum. That is where you want everyone to land to see if they qualify, and then hopefully make a vote while they are there, and get to the other forum that is there already, (just change the name) where all nominations are done.

Dennis, you have good ideas, but I think the details should be looked into more.

Jim, has anyone heard of what they are doing with the opening page that is in the works?

Wow, there is great suggestions going on in here. The one thing I like is the coaching of people.
Another thing that bothers me, is when a person wins as POTW and he/she never comes into to the forum to say hi-bye or nothing. How interested are they in having POTW?
I feel the person that is our POTW should post to each person. Posting to each person gives them the opportunity of getting there ads out again and again, also it is just good manners to answer a person when they have taken their time to uplift you. Can we put this in the training.

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Wow, there is great suggestions going on in here. The one thing I like is the coaching of people.
Another thing that bothers me, is when a person wins as POTW and he/she never comes into to the forum to say hi-bye or nothing. How interested are they in having POTW?
I feel the person that is our POTW should post to each person. Posting to each person gives them the opportunity of getting there ads out again and again, also it is just good manners to answer a person when they have taken their time to uplift you. Can we put this in the training.

Hi Myrna

This is another reason why we should let the Adlandpro members nominate themselves
Those that want to run for POTW will likely want to see who's congratulating them and post there thank you.

Dennis