Michael Goode said:
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I am sorry that you are wasting an inordinate amount of time, energy and hostility towards the posts about my book that were done on this website in good faith and with the full permission of the website administrator. My book has heloed hundreds of people including many principals of major orchestras and their students. If no one knows about the book, then they cannot benefit from its content.
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Amazing. Hostility? How about a polite suggestion. Inordinate? Since when was a few minutes to make a post an "inordinate" amount of time or energy? If your book has as much hyperbole as your post it would be worthless. My guess is it doesn't. I don't doubt your book has helped others. Have you for free?
My point, and I'll make it again since it didn't seem to get to you the first time. Contribute to the board. Make friends. Help some people without them having to buy your book. You might actually sell more. I never said the administrator was against this. You inferred what I never implied.
Give us some snippets of your book. Answer questions. Offer free autographed copies for the best question. Anything more than just the sales pitch. A constant stream of sales pitches seems like spam. You may think that only email is spam, and I would guess according to the "Can-Spam" law you would be correct. But posts that only sell
feel like spam.
This isn't hostility. You have to post about ZeuS to get hostility :wink:
Suggestions. If you have the time to respond to us and accuse us of hostile actions, you have the time to contribute. What is in your unconscious if you feel like this was hostile?
Now I have not read your book. Perhaps you could share a suggestion or two from it to entice us? If you cannot contribute more than a sales pitch, you are annoying people and wasting bandwidth and time.
My opinion only. I am not important enough to worry about when it comes to opinions. Please the critics and the symphony members. I direct a community band and I am a Minister of Music part-time. I make my living as a mental health therapist. My opinion matters very little.
But some three hundred posts later, I have done some selling. But I hope that by and far, I have contributed. My greatest "gift" to the trumpet community is my mouthpiece chart. Hundreds of hours of work. I give it away a couple hundred times a week.
Furthermore, I have met very few of the people on this board face to face. But yet, I would consider many of them my friends. Even the ones who have disagreed with me in polite debate. I would again suggest politely, that if you contributed you would make not only a few friends, but more sales than you would with the occasional sales pitch.
All I suggested was that you contribute more than a sales pitch. Take it for what it is worth -- free advice.
Jim