Why is everyone's niche site on MMO marketing?

Well..no..

Of course everyone here is an internet marketer or wanting to be an internet marketer but I would have assumed they use that passion and those skills to market every topic under the sun.

What you're saying is equivalent to a forum for lawyers that specialize in offering law services to lawyers in trouble.

Also why so paranoid about sharing your ideas - are "rip offs" all that common? If someone is so inclined to rip off ideas (I'm not sure why they would be as copying sites doesn't get you far) why wouldn't they just google search their niche of choice and rip it off from the top searches in google.

Seems silly they would go to a forum with the goal of ripping off some obscure site.

Yeah Steve, had something similar happen to me years ago with a Non- MMO Niche. I posted link here to get some Opinions on Website. And lo and behold some deplorable/s decided to be cute and clicked on Adsense incessantly to get me Smart Priced by GOOG !!


- Robert Andrew

This seems pretty reasonable - thanks!

It is actually - on this site - every single profile website I have clicked on is an internet marketing hub.

Exactly and a lot of folks here don't get it.

Post links here, mention profit and you'll have 87 new competition in a week stealing your content.

No thanks.

Exactly.

Since I don't do anything with MMO why would I bother putting a link to my website here? Y'all are hardly my target customer and the while downsides of putting a link to my site here are small, they are real.

To be honest, I'm not really that concerned that anyone here is going to try to copy my business. Several websites have already tried to copy our model and failed, and we're already pretty established as the niche leader. Execution is much, much harder than coming up with an idea.

But while I'm not all that concerned with people here stealing my business ideas, I'm actually not all that keen on my site's customers knowing about my activities here. It's not that I ever say anything bad, but when talking to different audiences you use different language, say different things.

For instance, I'd never refer to my customers as "customers" on my website. We generally try to use language like "community", "followers", "readers", or "supporters" -- which convey a much different feeling than the colder, more transactional term "customer". But this is a business-oriented forum, so I use the word "customer". And the truth is that we think of our customers as all of those things, followers, readers, supports, community and customers.

Similarly, my customers don't need to know about my marketing techniques or the ins and outs of our business practices -- not because we're doing anything shady, but again because it distracts from the emotions were trying to convey with our branding and marketing efforts. It's not that our customers couldn't figure out pretty easily the broad points of our business model, but why would I want them to focus on the marketing techniques when what I really want them to focus on is the marketing message?

Finally, having already been a target of a frivolous -- though lengthy, annoying and expensive -- lawsuit, I just think it's best practice to have as little information about my business public as possible. While MMO sellers love to post about their -- real or imagined -- gigantic incomes, fancy homes and luxury cars, the truth is that being successful can make you a target to trolls trying to game the legal system. Moreover, anything you write about your business is just more ammunition for those trolls. Even if the risk is small, why take it?

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No but visitors to that site sure would be curious why most of the board is about teaching people how to instruct others on how to play golf rather than a reasonable mix of those playing the game and those instructing on how to instruct .

Are we on the same forum?

Hi Brent,

Your first point was helpful - it's good to know some people make most of their money outside MMO.

Why did you have to insult me at the end though - obviously I'm a newbie and have a lot to learn but you don't have to be rude and sarcastic. I'm just trying to get some information and excited about this new life path. It upsets me when people are a bit rude and dismissive.

You could have said something like, "actually, not everyone and his dog want to make money online, I've found through my research that it's only the X most popular niche out there, although I can see how you might feel that way as you hear alot about it on the forums"

You didn't have to get snide and superior.