Afdter looking at responses from several of the more active members of the WF I have discovered that even here it is very much a matter of reflex that decides what someone will post.

It is quite disappointing that very few people actually read a stream before joining it and that, when they do, they tend to parrot an opinion they have gleaned from the writings of some guru - and it has already been parrotted before.

Even more disappointing is that this method of posting...

As I roam around the forum boards it strikes me as odd that many posters have no idea to what they are responding.

Apart from the lost souls and bots that post a couple of words, there are several, apparently intelligent, people you will find in every stream who look at the stream subject line and then post a response to it.

That's fair enough if you are the first responder but how can anybody justify simply ignoring the efforts that have already been made to answer the...

So, you want to start selling of line, do you?

I suppose I can guess what has prompted this decision. You’ve been reading all those emails about the off line cash cow, haven’t you?

You really believe that there are businessmen out there literally salivating in their eagerness for you to walk into their domain and take $1,500 off them, don’t you?

You really believe that a businessman without a web site is going to weep in gratitude that you have finally...

As a new internet marketing entrant I am loath to push my opinions forward but I look at all the forum posts about the off line cash cow and wonder why I join the dots differently to everybody else.

The only real reason I can think of is that I am still in the off line commercial world.

All the OLCC posts I have seen relate to search engine optimisation and getting visitors to a clients site. Actually, that isn't quite true. They are more about getting him to Google Nº1...