I spend my entire day online staring at four computer monitors. It is not exciting as life was when I was a special event producer, but it is a heck of a lot better way to get my childrens’ tuition bills paid.
That’s the idea that led to the launching of goodbuyguys.com.
After almost thirty years in the special events production business, it just made sense to develop a web business that could take advantage of what I had learned from three decades of “hands on” experience.
A good part of my time is spent monitoring forums about audio visual and stagecraft discussions, looking for info about how the products we sell are being discussed and used in the field.
Unfortunately, most of the moderators of forums that cater to those in the sound and lighting business take exception with the idea that you can combine a production career with supplying products that you used successfully when you actually used what you sell now.
It seems that if those who control these forums think that you make a living selling something, then you are automatically disqualified from posting useful information to their forum.
It is difficult to understand how bringing practical knowledge to the marketplace somehow disqualifies the seller from being able to answer questions and comment on forum user postings. Would you rather buy your gaffers tape from someone who has taped down enough cable to go to the moon and back, or someone who has spent their entire life in a sales office. The sense that selling a product discounts the value of the sellers experience means that the real loser is the person who posts a forum question. They are denied access to what may be a lifetime of experience just because the email address of the person answering their questions points to a domain that sells the product.
As the web continues to build a larger and larger database of links back to the sellers domain, it becomes even more likely that the forum administrator will disallow postings from an experienced seller with real world experience.
The end result of this sort of thinking means that the forum subscribers are denied access to a lot of valuable information.
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