Happy Paying Customers would work for me lol .The site is good, Big membership but that tends to work against everybody..Its easy to take a trail and get lost for hours..
It doesn't matter where you go on the internet you can trawl around and get lost for hours!
That I think is a problem for many people, certainly is for me. I start out full of good intentions to FOCUS, then get side-tracked as I pick up on bits and pieces which attract my attention or my interest, as indeed I have done even here. I began by writing a comment to the main blog, then read your comment and was compelled to put down my thoughts.
I shall leave this site forthwith before I get interested in anything else as I have over 200 emails to wade through.
I like this site very much. I enjoy most of the blogs finding many of them helpful and informative.
I do not use the site a much as I would like, being bogged down with other things, so I cannot make any suggestion as to how it could be improved. I know there is always room for improvement in everything, but for me at the present time anyway, I cannot see what St.rt Biz can do to improve.
When I have improved myself and my use of the site, then perhaps I might be more objective and helpful.
Likes 1.) Generally positive and creative environment
2.) Members and leadership is tolerant and open to new ways and ideas.
3.) Very supportive and patient with new members.
4.) Like the opportunity to promote and list my ventures but wish spammers would stop the direct emails. Dislikes 1.) This site is vulnerable to spam emails and promotions from people who have no intention of reciprocating.
2.) Chat rooms w/b a good thing.
I tried the chat room. You need open up the chat room and read the message. Its not like facebook chat room that give a "pop" sound when someone chats with you. Maybe you can private msg with the people.
I think there are some very good people who are looking to legitimatly network with real business and services BUT it is a breeding ground for alot of BS MLM affiliate get rich quick nonsense. I guess that's going to come with the territory. I know some people actually do make alot of money with MLM's and being affiliates and I dreamed that dream myself and lost some money doing it lucky for me when I did I had it to loose in this economy I think there are going to be some people who get hurt cause they want to believe you can have no computer skills and sign up for some "free" whatever not realizing they are going to be upsold into monthly fee's and this and that. People have to realize nothing is free the internet is not some magic wand that is going to fullfill all thier dreams as they sit on some exotic beach sipping margarita's as thier Bently is getting detailednext to thier private jet. My advice to anyone is read the fine print those vitamins that you only have to pay for the shipping and handling are going to come every month with a bill and you signed the 12 month contract. The internet is full of information I suggest before you sign up for anything do your own due diligence. If it were as easy as some make it seem we would all be millionaires
1) Reinstate the "Top 99 Members" point system (Will get folks interacting with one another again)
2) Ban the use of outside links on the forums, comment walls (except for signature links), and blogs (there is a way to share your outside links. But doing so in those areas seems a bit spammy.)
3) Do away with the "send an emails to all members" feature (I recognize spam when I see it)
4) We all make a concentrated effort to interact with one another on the forums and each others blogs.
5) That I get paid a nickle for every hour I spend on this network so I can retire rich right now and not have to worry about this Internet marketing nonsense anymore! =)
At this point bring mods on are unnecessary given the low amount of posts taking place. If you see threads I missed that are spammy just post a link on my profile and I will take care of them.