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I would suggest that you stop ‘giving’ it away and make people pay for access to the site.

Just found your site, Stumbling, and I love this article. The problem I am having is that I have a site that is sort of like Match.com meets the Yellow Pages. But, it is all business people. I won’t link out of respect. But, here is my problem: All the business people that look at it love it, they say it is great, fills a void, etc…. (kissing my ass perhaps) I give them a promo code to join for free with a non-expiring membership and some certainly do join. But, so many people say they will and don’t. Or, they email periodically with “sorry, it is still on my to-do list…etc…

I am trying to give away what people tell me is worth while but still having trouble. In the dating arena, men don’t go to the dating sites unless there are women, but women want to know they don’t outnumber the men on the site 100 to 1…translate that to business and there is my problem: it is hard to get the people to come to the site to find what they need if there aren’t people signing up to be hired.

Any ideas ? from anyone ?

Can you develop Firefox add-ons? I’d love to have a Performancing toolbar developed.

Is there any favor that I can do for you?

I think one of the reasons some bloggers don’t want to “suck up” to others is because they’re afraid of assisting the competition, at least that’s what was explained to me. It sounds silly, doesn’t it? I had a couple of enlightening discussions with some fellow bloggers the other day. One told me the reason more people don’t open a dialog with me (at that particular network) is that they’re intimidated because of FWJ and that About.com thing. That’s bullshit. I started out small just like everyone else – and kissed some pretty big butts to get to where I am. And I still consider myself a rather small fish in the big pond.

The other thing that was explained to me is that people don’t want to necessarily write about or link to more established blogs because they’re considered the competition. One person told me she never linked to my blog because she was afraid her readers would come to my blog and stay. More BS – there’s room in the blogosphere for everyone.

I’m not as blunt as you and you said it way better than I ever could.

Hmmm. Doesn’t sound too good.

Oh man, that’s simply * priceless *

A lot of people are afraid to reach out and partner with others because they don’t want to give up control. That’s why you’ll see a lot of ‘solo’ entrepreneurs struggle because they didn’t want to attach themselves with someone more successful.

Other times, the terms and context of the relationship isn’t good – some people just don’t work well when they don’t have a vested interest in a project, which is why you’ll see a lot of bloggers who sign up at a blog, write a few articles and then lose heart because they’re being paid per post while the owner is raking in thousands (if not tens of thousands) per month.

I’ve been very lucky in my life to have someone successful whom I worked with, but I’ve also made the mistake I mentioned above of not being willing to commit to a cause where I didn’t have a tangible interest in.

If you’re like me, then I would suggest that you work hard at finding the right type of relationships and agreements – because while you’ll always find people willing to network and make money, it’s harder to find people who are all genuinely interested in a project and are not in it just for the money.

Money makes the world go around, yes, but without passion the people are going to go elsewhere.