The sad but very real truth about APSense.
People came to this site, unaware that they would be advertising to other advertisers. It's hard to make money when you only show your product to other sellers. People on APSense do not realize that we all have to work together in order for ANYONE to succeed.
There is no money in the advertising of a product to people doing the same thing. Sure, you're getting paid to do it here. But, it isn't much. You refer hundreds and hundreds of people, only for them to put a link on their profile and stop using the site. They don't want to do anything because they expect the site to do it for them.
Then you have people that go to your blogs and read them.... Only to not even so much as post a comment or top it. Regardless of how good the article was. They take the information into consideration and use the knowledge. But, give no credit to the person that wrote it. Then, they wonder why hardly anyone is topping their articles or why no one is commenting on them.
IF everyone would work together and actually do more on the site... Such as top good articles, post comments, rate business centers more, join good groups, and actually work at helping others. They would see a GREAT increase in not only earnings on APSense, but, knowledge as well.
This also ties into my formula I wrote and posted a few days back. http://www.apsense.com/article/110259.html
(sorry about the pop-up, I took the code out. But, it still comes up :( again sorry for that)
I went into great detail about teamwork, communication, networking, and such.
But, no one took hardly any of it into account.
The "big earners" on this site, are the ones that spend the time actually reading what others write, comment, top, and actually learn from what has been written. The people who claim this site doesn't work or that claim they aren't making anything worth using the site anymore.... are the ones that give no effort into using the site.
Let me use someone as an example. (sorry Lynn, but, I need someone who actually puts the effort in as an example)
Lynn works very hard on APSense, and manages to keep everything up to date. She goes and reads others postings, comments and gives input, and tops the worthy articles. In hopes that the people will do the same.... AS THEY SHOULD.
She has one of the biggest private networks on APSense, if I'm not mistaken, and I see her listed on the main page all the time in the top people. THIS COMES FROM HARD WORK!!
I noticed on my formula page, I had over 300 hits on it, but yet not even 20 comments.... In which almost a quarter of them were my own. Out of all the people that read that article very few decided to top it. Even though A LOT of people knew that was an extremely well written, and very informative article.
I understand that we all are here to make money. But, no one is going to make any money if we all do not help each other. It's the main key to making money. You can't make anything if you have no help. Especially in a virtual world where the more people you know the better.
Look at it this way. Would you want to get online and sit in front of a screen with a buddy list that is empty with no one to talk to.... or would you rather get online and have friends to talk to, friends and contacts to help you when you need advice or an opinion, or even someone to share ideas with?
(I know I said this below in a comment, but, I just remembered that I could edit the content.
So as I said, If this comment touched key points, please be sure to go to this article as well as it pertains to things that may help apsense and it's users.)
http://www.apsense.com/article/110757.html
Also be sure to read my formula posting, as well as my guide to making money online.
http://www.apsense.com/article/110259.html <--Formula Posting-->
http://www.apsense.com/article/121796.html <--Guide Posting-->
There is no money in the advertising of a product to people doing the same thing. Sure, you're getting paid to do it here. But, it isn't much. You refer hundreds and hundreds of people, only for them to put a link on their profile and stop using the site. They don't want to do anything because they expect the site to do it for them.
Then you have people that go to your blogs and read them.... Only to not even so much as post a comment or top it. Regardless of how good the article was. They take the information into consideration and use the knowledge. But, give no credit to the person that wrote it. Then, they wonder why hardly anyone is topping their articles or why no one is commenting on them.
IF everyone would work together and actually do more on the site... Such as top good articles, post comments, rate business centers more, join good groups, and actually work at helping others. They would see a GREAT increase in not only earnings on APSense, but, knowledge as well.
This also ties into my formula I wrote and posted a few days back. http://www.apsense.com/article/110259.html
(sorry about the pop-up, I took the code out. But, it still comes up :( again sorry for that)
I went into great detail about teamwork, communication, networking, and such.
But, no one took hardly any of it into account.
The "big earners" on this site, are the ones that spend the time actually reading what others write, comment, top, and actually learn from what has been written. The people who claim this site doesn't work or that claim they aren't making anything worth using the site anymore.... are the ones that give no effort into using the site.
Let me use someone as an example. (sorry Lynn, but, I need someone who actually puts the effort in as an example)
Lynn works very hard on APSense, and manages to keep everything up to date. She goes and reads others postings, comments and gives input, and tops the worthy articles. In hopes that the people will do the same.... AS THEY SHOULD.
She has one of the biggest private networks on APSense, if I'm not mistaken, and I see her listed on the main page all the time in the top people. THIS COMES FROM HARD WORK!!
I noticed on my formula page, I had over 300 hits on it, but yet not even 20 comments.... In which almost a quarter of them were my own. Out of all the people that read that article very few decided to top it. Even though A LOT of people knew that was an extremely well written, and very informative article.
I understand that we all are here to make money. But, no one is going to make any money if we all do not help each other. It's the main key to making money. You can't make anything if you have no help. Especially in a virtual world where the more people you know the better.
Look at it this way. Would you want to get online and sit in front of a screen with a buddy list that is empty with no one to talk to.... or would you rather get online and have friends to talk to, friends and contacts to help you when you need advice or an opinion, or even someone to share ideas with?
(I know I said this below in a comment, but, I just remembered that I could edit the content.
So as I said, If this comment touched key points, please be sure to go to this article as well as it pertains to things that may help apsense and it's users.)
http://www.apsense.com/article/110757.html
Also be sure to read my formula posting, as well as my guide to making money online.
http://www.apsense.com/article/110259.html <--Formula Posting-->
http://www.apsense.com/article/121796.html <--Guide Posting-->
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Comments (163)
Max Merrill7
Jack of All Trades
Zac,
I realize that APSense is still growing. People must also understand... if they had the time to read an article... They have the 2 seconds to top it or down it......
Zac Josevski14
Internet Marketer
You make a lot of valid points Max but I think a lot of what
you wrote will change once the membership expands.
I'm not really sure on how many members Apsense has
but in internet terms they are still a baby.
Let me explain....
You mentioned that " It's hard to make money when you only
show your product to other sellers "
I think that they are the best people to show your products or
services to especially if it is a new product or service.
I understand that people are pushing their own stu
Max Merrill7
Jack of All Trades
Claudia,
Thank you for such great input. It is very sad, that I myself have almost 20 referrals and not one of them are active.
Also, No one... I repeat... NO ONE. Is an expert in online advertising..... Why?
Because, the internet is a constantly changing medium. Nothing stays the same as far as advertising goes. There is always a new way to do it. You may know A LOT more then everyone else, but, that doesn't make you the KNOW IT ALL PERSON. You could think you know everything there i
Claudia7
Hello Max,
you have a lot of facts in your article, sad, but true.
Apsense has more than 15.000 members now, but it would be interesting to know, how many are really active here.
Many people join, and forget about it.
I have 20 (only) in my netwok, and only one of them is active.
I have hundreds in my groups, but most of them using the groups only as a place, where they can leave their adds.
I'm not here to make money, but I think it's a real good place, to make contacts and friends around
Max Merrill7
Jack of All Trades
Dave,
Yes I must agree, that far too many people let greed overcome their common sense. If you take and take and take..... Before too long, you won't be able to take anymore. Because, people will know you do not give. The more you give, the more you get.
I know that I had a couple ads on a couple of my blogs, but, those blogs were FILLED with information. I don't really put ads in my blogs much anymore, maybe 1 here and there.
As for the positive or negative feedback, I'll take either.
Dave Thomas6
Hi Max,
Your article is spot on far to many people just take and do not give and you even find that some people will just stick a blatent ad on instead of any constructive comment.
I am even happy if people disagree with my comment or article at least it shows they are thinking.
Dave