I can hear crickets thinking

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View First Post missing

Would you be able to expand on this issue? What first post are you trying to view?

View Threads I have posted in missing

Could you also expand on this. Where are you trying to view the threads you have posted in?

Look up a persons recent posts broken & missing

This has been resolved. You should be able to see everyone's threads and posts. There was an issue where it only showed back to a certain date however this should be all fixed.

Search function at best broken

I know this has take a while to fix. I appreciate everyone's patience with this. This should be resolved now.

Let me know if you still encounter any issues.

I think one of the huge issues with the redesign of the forum is I can no longer see which threads I've posted on, to see if someone has continued a conversation I was involved with. Now you're asking me to remember what threads I've contributed to, that's just not happening. That is a HUGE design flaw, and one they should fix immediately.

It's been disappointing watching the knowledge level of the forum go down rather than up. Most of the conversations have been about beginning level stuff. I've been here since 2006, doing marketing consulting since then, and it's still the same questions. Where are the entrepreneurs that are struggling to get from $150-200k to $1M in sales? Those are the people I'd like to brainstorm with. We have no idea if people have succeeded or not, or what they are doing, because most people with any real experience just disappear off of the board. There are maybe 6-10 people that I find interesting, and many of the more interesting posters are just gone. We're missing the Dexx's, Andrew Cavanaugh's, Michael Hiles, of the active forum of just 3-4 years ago. There are maybe a dozen accomplished veterans that are imparting their wisdom, and the rest are people asking the same questions.

The WSO forum is dead as far as offline material goes. There used to be a WSO of the day with offline material. That's now dead in the water, and when is the last time you saw an offline WSO end up as WSO of the day. In the top 3 pages of WSO's, there are exactly 2 WSO's right now (12pm on Tuesday Nov 4th). Go back two years(page 205 in WSO forum), and there were 9 WSO's in one page, versus 2 in three pages. And honestly the ones that are selling look dead in the water as well, they aren't getting much traction, and I would guess not many are buying.

I think the forum is too convoluted, and hard to find anything. There's no sticky at the top of start here- with the best forum posts. If I was a new member and I wandered into this forum thinking where could I find information on what this offline marketing thingie is all about, I wouldn't have a clue of what to look at. How do you know what to look at, where to start, who to listen to, etc.

Making money "offline" has lost a little bit of it's shine. It's not sit in your underwear and just print money. It takes work, it takes growth, it's not as easy as the WSO's have made it out to be. I also think it's fairly difficult to make it offline without some cash. $1,000 invested well should be enough. But $100 probably isn't going to do it. And ideally you'd probably want $5-10k. No one wants to hear that though. And what people REALLY don't want to hear is that you have to sell. That you can't really sit behind your computer and make money doing this. The real money is made on the phone or belly to belly.

I find it disappointing that almost all of the talk on the forum is about how to get clients, and very little is about how to deliver platinum quality service to those clients. Why is the huge topic, what are the clients that have $1,000+ transaction values. Why isn't what are all of the ways we can help our clients more popular? This business is stupid simple. Find out what people want, need and will pay for. Find out how to deliver that, and then get paid. Instead most people ask, how can I shove more mobile websites down peoples throats? First become valuable, and then you can get paid your value, that's the way it works.

I don't know that I agree that the forum being buried down the page really matters THAT much. People who want to find it will find it regardless. But it's entirely possible.

I'm not sure THIS particular forum ever recovers, it may just die quietly in the night. But it was fun while it lasted, so good job Andrew. I'm sure you've created many wealthy families from just one post on the forum.

Just my two cents