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[Jobstane]

So you can see the old post I put out there.

Originally Posted by Jobstane

I can't believe it, we heading toward 2009. As the owner I am making some major changes to help gain better position amoungst the freebie industry. I wanted to move the site into a proven forum before the end of the year and I have reach that goal. My next major goal is to http://www.freelunchroom.com/board/m...00-2009-a.html, and I feel this is very doable. To do this I am looking much harder at our members and what makes them happy. I am taking time and the end of the day to email users who I know currently use us and who once used us in the past. I can't go around FLR and pm people for their intake but I can ask that you pm me or email me at maw10i@aol.com. I have seen changes but know you have not seen enough. So with this long statement I ask what changes would you like to see from us?

[Jobstane]

No real need to respond to this since I believe my view is pretty clear in this.

Originally Posted by Jobstane

It has been so long since we started this thread. It was started as a way of me reaching out to my member since I had just purchased the site. When Moneybonanzas was purchased it had two sites (Gift & Cash), was barely on FLR (no sub-forum), and in my eyes it was failing. I had the privilege of coming in as new owner and trying new things and trying my but off to set us apart. Now over a year in things the site is doing great and now I have the freedom of trying out bigger promos and the chance to give back to my members. I have a huge belief that I know the members truly keep the site alive and I always welcome your feedback (good and bad). As we hit bumps I am reminded that there is a community of traders the talk in and out of FLR. My goal is to reach out to that community of traders and find out what you all want. I am (in my opinion) flexible to changes as long as its within what we believe in for our site. Second I would love to bring those members outside of the community into our circle to give them an avenue to reach out to everyone. So I will end this right here hoping to spark some feedback or at least some thought.

[alabasterjim]

Well I for one am glad I got a free green from moneybonanzas. Free Greens are an excellent idea because it gets moneybonanzas exposure that they might not had before. For instance, without a free green a person may never be interested in the site and therefore never become a customer. In fact, 2 of my favorite sites gave me free greens. The other ones I had to work for. But maybe moneybonanzas can give out free partial credits instead of a free green. There's a site that gave their members like 1/10 of a credit each time they referred someone to their site. The sponsor could apply that 1/10 or more credits to their new referrals accts in case they may have fallen short of getting 100%. I thought that was a nifty idea. But maybe Moneybonanzas could simply give out .5 credits or .75 credits and make it more tempting for people to sign up and complete 1 offer to fullfill 100% requirements.


Also, I think that the future of IFWs is going to have to be network marketing based. The weakness of an IFW is that it typically only pays people one level deep. And each sponsor trains a referral to sign up and now that referral becomes direct competition with his referer. Now there's nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't leave a motive for the sponsor to effectively teach their referrals how to get more referrals. So it would be awesome to see an IFW pay me for my referral's referrals or give me some kinda credit, etc. That way there's an incentive to effectively teach our referrals how and where to advertise freebies.

And my last idea is simply allow people to work as teams on your site. Friends love to work together on projects and it would motivate people to network together in order to bring in more referrals. Limit a team to so many members and let each team pick their name. IFWs are already a competitive business model and letting people pair up will combat some of the competitiveness as harness it into good old fashioned teamwork.

This guy likes some of my ideas

[Jobstane]

We are always trying to help. If there is something you would like us to do to help and it is within reason let us know. We have so many options for traders and we are too excited to share them all with our members.