Comments on: Your thoughts: why so negative? http://www.christophermonnat.com/2009/06/your-thoughts-why-so-negative/ Programmer Extraordinaire Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:40:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stef http://www.christophermonnat.com/2009/06/your-thoughts-why-so-negative/comment-page-1/#comment-596 Stef Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:46:04 +0000 http://www.christophermonnat.com/?p=873#comment-596 The problem with SP is that they went very commercial. Their books and forums are good but they try to push too much stuff on their users. "FREE PDFs" and then they bombard you with marketing emails, popups / sllideouts that never seem to go away. Every article title is now "9 Reason why you need to X" and "Recommended project management tools for freelancers" type stuff that everyone has already seen a dozen times. They also got alot of exposure in a major US newspaper about their "flipping websites" subforum, after which they hastily went to set up flippa. But the sad fact is that most sites that are being traded on SP are quite spammy and MFA style sites that nobody really wants around. Yet because of exposure they are getting, alot of people get lured in thinking it really is that easy to make money online. The problem with SP is that they went very commercial. Their books and forums are good but they try to push too much stuff on their users. “FREE PDFs” and then they bombard you with marketing emails, popups / sllideouts that never seem to go away.

Every article title is now “9 Reason why you need to X” and “Recommended project management tools for freelancers” type stuff that everyone has already seen a dozen times.

They also got alot of exposure in a major US newspaper about their “flipping websites” subforum, after which they hastily went to set up flippa. But the sad fact is that most sites that are being traded on SP are quite spammy and MFA style sites that nobody really wants around.

Yet because of exposure they are getting, alot of people get lured in thinking it really is that easy to make money online.

]]> By: Claire http://www.christophermonnat.com/2009/06/your-thoughts-why-so-negative/comment-page-1/#comment-436 Claire Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:18:08 +0000 http://www.christophermonnat.com/?p=873#comment-436 It's the fact that there is a certain anonymity that the Internet provides... and also we humans are getting (more than) slightly spoiled by the notion of "instant gratification"... we want things done our way NOW and for some reason, that saying of "The Customer Is Always Right" equals "Complain Enough, You Get Enough To Shut You Up" in our rapidly decreasing cerebrals. Working in customer service has provided a clearer outlook on what a fine line we toe between Civility and Pain In The ... . :) It’s the fact that there is a certain anonymity that the Internet provides… and also we humans are getting (more than) slightly spoiled by the notion of “instant gratification”… we want things done our way NOW and for some reason, that saying of “The Customer Is Always Right” equals “Complain Enough, You Get Enough To Shut You Up” in our rapidly decreasing cerebrals. Working in customer service has provided a clearer outlook on what a fine line we toe between Civility and Pain In The … . :)

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