Quote Originally Posted by Jan Ferrante View Post
Well, I've always been very supportive of everyone in this forum, Lynn included. This whole thing has left me feeling on the dumped on and I really do have far better things to do with my time. And for the record, I've been working my tail off for 8+ years, there really isn't anything that anyone can say to tell me otherwise.
Well, that's no good. You don't deserve to feel that way at all. You're too kind and supportive to be feeling that way. I think you and I are in the same position in a lot of ways, I've been online since late 2000 early 2001, and we're at that point of wanting to get to that next level of success..... we're finally falling into our "place" on the internet, and I know we'll both get to that next level very soon

I think that it would do everyone well to go back and read the beginning - what would you do differently if you were to start again - and do that.
That sounds like a good plan for everyone! If there is something you would do differently, go do that thing! Don't think about, just go do it

I've been away from the forum quite a bit this past week because I've been working on restructuring my cross stitch site, which was my very first website online ever. I put it up way back in 2001 and I knew nothing about SEO, keywords, or affiliate marketing, writing for an audience, or any of that. I'm revamping it to hopefully make it a million times a better.

I feel the tension in this topic and I'd love to change directions and go down a more positive path here. After all, negativity is going to get us all to nowheresville, right?

Let's take a look at what Jan just said. (write this stuff down)
What would YOU do differently?
Why would you do that differently?
What is your main goal or purpose for making this change?
What steps do you need to take in order to accomplish the goal?
How long reasonably do you think it will take you do accomplish it?
How can we help you do what you need to do?

Let's go get some good stuff done!