Hi Neil, First of all, it is a pleasure to meet you! Thank you for sending the invitation. You're quite right - there's nothing at all wrong with a large friends list. The number one complaint I hear from members who DO have a large friends list is that they get too much email. My personal belief is that you can never get too much email. Email in your inbox is one of your greatest sources of information, not simply about this or that latest and greatest program, but also about the person sending you the email. You can learn an awful lot about someone by the type, the quantity and the quality of email they send you. My best advice to anyone joining and being active in an online community is to open an email account specifically for that community. I have many, many email accounts, which works very well to sort and also to save my sanity! Have a most wonderful week, Neil! God bless, Dave

G'day Dave,

    I have only been a member of adland for a short time, but have found your forums to be interesting, and have a lot of commonsense, not to mention informative.

    Speaking of commonsense, why do they call it that when it does not seem to be very common anymore?? Just something for the readers to think about!!

    I have used some of the information that you have shared with us  & now await the results. I actually do not sell a product, I simply write a blog, and am trying to get more traffic to it.

    Good lord, there's a thought and a lesson. It has just occured to me that the product that I'm selling is my blog, I really do have a product to sell.  Now I s'pose I could probably let other people use my traffic to promote there site, or product, but only if I knew that there product/ site was good.

    No, I am not writting this as SPAM, mearly as a different way of getting my point accross, and actually agreeing with you on many of the points that you have raised in some of the forums that you have written.

Thankyou.

Hello Dave,
Your doing great,Kathy

Hi Paul, I enjoy your way of writing and also enjoyed visiting your blog. Keep it up! It's not spam to post something intelligent and relatively on track in a forum, rather than "Hi, great post..." Thanks for your refreshing post. Keep it up and keep using that sig file! God bless, Dave

Hi Dave, Thanks for the great post on how to get real traffic. I got here via a link on Neil Sperling's forum. http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/637574.aspx Great Topic...I still don't know how you keep up with so much! Between here and DirectMatches ~ I've got my networking booked! But... I am starting up with the Blogs now... a little late... http://BizzyBogz.com/bethsventures is familiar to lots of Adland Folks http://blogchex.com/bethsventures is a newer one I came across and they pay for views via the adertising. And ... there's Pages! Set up your Affiliate Adland Page there ... simple, easy & free! Have a great weekend, Beth