I get that, I sure do. But it seems to me you are thinking about this the wrong way around - it's not advertisement, it's opportunity.
Anyone interested in this message thread is facing a buying decision. And excellent comments such as from Andrei B., or any other contributors, helps traversing that decision tree. And it's an opportunity (for anyone) to say, mlo works better (for me) because of ... - and good info for the potential customer to help make that buying decision in mlo's favour. The result of which is a potential customer more likely to become a paying customer, and therefore opportunity to upsell to the cloud and so on. If the information presented isn't sufficient to stop them from going to tdl instead of you, then they were never going to be a happy customer of mlo in the first place - and so no loss to mlo. And an unhappy mlo customer with unrealized, unreasonable, expectations, is going to be problematic for mlo. Even if not directly, they won't likely be recommending mlo to anyone else, and probably the opposite - doing actual harm, if not actually consuming mlo, let alone google group, time addressing, defending, and explaining, the unaddressable. Avoidable for better information up front, such as I hope to be in this thread. Good discussion is good information and that's never a bad thing. After all, the google group is in the public domain, it's not proprietary, controlled, mlo content. Good information is why, for example, there are links on the web site towards reviews - which also helps that potential customer make a happy buying decision in your favour, and accompanying revenue for mlo. There's not much difference between posting links to such reviews and pros / cons / use cases here in this public forum. I really appreciate Andrei B.'s answer - both, and here's why ... I can make a more informed buying decision, and have a higher likelihood of having a better, productive, out of box experience, with appropriately managed expectations. And spend more time using the hammer (doing) than wrestling with what hammer to use, or how to use it. It's not advertisement - it's public discussion, and an opportunity for mlo. CDN$0.02 On Saturday, 23 November 2013 06:06:05 UTC-5, Andrey Tkachuk (MLO) wrote: > > > I am not sure I like the idea to advertise competitors with direct links > on mlo forum. > > Just a thought. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/bc14a901-152d-44c9-9196-463b93a1dacc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
