Most forums will not allow any vendor posting so they institute various policies in an attempt to police this activity. However, Melissa and I would like to have a much more open policy. We understand that a lot of our very valuable professional photographer members also offer valuable products and services.
So, in an attempt to keep this simple for everyone. Here's the new policy.
1) Please feel free to promote your product or service in any of the forums, either as a new post, or a relevant reply to an existing post.
2) You MUST put in parentheses in the SUBJECT LINE the following phrase- "(Vendor Suggestion)"
3) This label needs to be used if you have any vested interest in, or direct marketing relationship with said product or service.
4) Any posting that is deemed to fall into this category that is not labeled as such will be relabeled appropriately by Melissa, myself or another moderator.
5) Repeated failure to follow this policy will result in the individual user being restricted to posting only in the vendor forum.
Just to clarify a bit more.
If you are a vendor by no means do you need to add this label to all of your posts. You would only want to do this when you are taking off your "photographer forum member hat" and putting on your "vendor product or service hat."
This policy is not meant to discourage such posts. Having been a vendor of photo software on other forums I fully understand the need and usefulness of sharing this type of information. It is needed so that a casual reader of the forum is made aware of the nature of the post.
We reserve the right to update this policy at anytime.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
here is a recommendation i put out to ALL of my colleagues -for any printed mktg materials use www.clubflyers.com
i have no association or vested interest - just use them for anything i need a boatload of. 5000 four color two sided UV coated biz cards on 12pt stock for $100 cannot be beat. they are also incredibly competive on all other sizes. only limitation is the fact they only print in qty of 5000 on most projects. still, they have beat my local prices on 300-500 qty projects!!
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
I just have to comment that I find this attitude on the part of the forum owners so very enlightened and helpful to all of us in this business. Not only do we learn a great deal from vendors, but the ability of vendors to clarify information about their products and/or services serves us all. Of course vendors are trying to sell; so are used car salesmen/women...but transparent, clearly labeled vendor information sure beats all the folks trying to "sneak" onto other forums supposedly disinterested parties. I applaud and thank the forum for allowing this space to those who have something to offer.
Now. Anyone need a good wedding photographer??? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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