On 31.08.2016 12:46, Lagi Pittas wrote:
Richard
You totally missed my point.
First off if the website is taking 24 hours of the developers time then
there is a problem. I went on the main site and there was a link to the
documentation yesterday - and guess what page not found - it happens all
the time, I given up even bothering to look at the link and just re-google.
But more important is the fact that we all have "day jobs" as in I'm self
employed but I still scan the web for interesting stuff to do with livecode
or fox or PDF or Pytghon or whatever.
I would suggest that instead of looking at dancing cats - i'm being
facetious here - just take a little time out to do what Richmond and others
did.
I'm off to have an icon painted of myself as I'm obviously approaching
sainthood.
Seriously . . . .
Every week night my wife and her Mum (rising 92) watch a daft Turkish
soap opera; because my Mum-in-law loves it, and because although my wife
doesn't like it, her Mum doesn't want to watch it alone because she
takes all of it literally and needs my wife to hold her hand whenever
some gets shot, ends up in prison, in hospital or (like WINE)
self-referentially in a Turkish soap opera (go figure). That's about an
hour and 3 quarters . . .
Not wish to cast aspersions on Turkish soap operas, however, as an
intellectual snob I'd far rather
do something else. So I am, from 8 to 10 local time, in front of the
bloody Linux box (and it does get bloody at times), normally waiting for
stroppy teenagers to send me essays so I can trash them and send them
back for rewrites . . .
And, while I'm waiting, I can do a bit of "what Richmond and others did"
Nothing saintly in it at all . . . just something better than "that
stupid card game".
One of the things a lot of people seem to overlook is the time they
waste "in the gaps" between
all the other things they do . . . this is why the children I teach
always seem surprised that I suggest
they should all have a copy of the Longman Advanced Learner's Dictionary
on a shelf next to the toilet!
The whole problem is a problem of attitude . . .
There are 3 gypsy women who are meant to clean our street, but, until
recently were doing nothing
of the sort . . . So I had a completely "taboo" idea (in Bulgaria
Bulgarians are ravingly racist about
gypsies) and went downstairs (we live on the top floor of our block)
with 4 cups of coffee and 3 cigarettes (I don't smoke cigarettes), and
sat and had coffee with these ladies for 15 minutes - this has
developed into a very healthy (well, barring the cigerattes) weekly
event: and, guess what, our street
is now cleaned very well indeed. What does this cost me: next to nothing
. . . mind you I've now got one of their kids coming to English classes
at my school for nothing . . .
Yes Time is what we cannot get back but we actually all waste some time on
frivolities - like trying to justify the unjustifiable.
"frivolitles"; what a magical sounding word, makes me thing of things
like "Victoria's Secret" (for those of you who haven't heard of this
place, it is where I *don't* buy my thongs:
https://www.victoriassecret.com/), the "Body Shop", and so on.
Indeed . . . we all waste so much time, for one reason or another.
Here's a suggestion why don't RR hire one of these virtual assistants that
cost maybe $400 or $500 a month (it's not peanuts when a house costs less
than $15000 in the Philipines - so we are not using slave labour) and give
him the task of spreading the word full time 50 of us paying $10 a month
would do that and we save time arguing what should be done - Im sure these
last 2 postings have cost both of us more than $10 in time.
I totally agree with you on your main point that we can all get more money
but we can never get back our time - $500 a month to get the word out, when
RR is "in the best financial position in this decade", come on now
something doesn't add up - I would suggest no thinking outside the box in
marketing. Nothing need be put further back in the queue.
Lagi
On 30 August 2016 at 23:52, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>
wrote:
Iphonelagi wrote:
Why do we say RR has to spend more on marketing?
They have a marketing person and somebody looking after the website
Seems like they are doing the minimum at work and that's it.
Am I being harsh or just stating the obvious it doesn't cost any
extra money to do what Richmond did and search these sites out.
<holding breath>
Nothing is free. Everything costs at least time, the most precious
resource any of us have.
Yup: that's a fact: so why do we waste so much of it?
Which features in queue would you like to see them set aside to hunt down
thousands of random web sites to add their product name to lists?
Which of those sites have an Alexa ranking higher than livecode.com?
--
Richard Gaskin
Richmond.
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