Forums and Q & A sites are great places to find laser targeted customers, but
terrible places to market your wares like a door to door salesman.
If you decide to participate in a forum, focus on building authority, value and
trust in the beginning - and don’t drop links to your site every time you post.
Once people know and respect what you have to say, they will be very
willing to see what you have to sell.
The only exception is if your product can directly and immediately solve the
askers problem. If that’s the case, a link is acceptable - necessary, even.
For example: If someone can’t sleep because their partner is immune to all
anti-snoring treatments, but you have an anti-snoring panacea, drop a link -
but after a good explanation and answer.
Quick Tip: Be easy with links - if you drop too many too fast, moderators
will usually flag you and kick you out of the forum.
Forums are really time consuming, and personally, I find it difficult to keep
up with all of the posts - so I stay out of them. Still, if you can pull it off, go
for it - some people have given their business a big push using just forums.
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C-autonomy. The handsets in the wireless radio networks are
normally not always communicating with the network infrastructure, i.e. they
are unreachable. There are numerous reasons for this behavior that can be
described under C(ommunication)-autonomy. First, disconnections may be
voluntary, e.g., when the user deliberately avoids network access during
nighttime, or while in a meeting, or in other places where the user does not
want to be disturbed. In the case where
the handset does not have voice capabilities, and thus disturbing is not a big
issue, it is still often reasonable to cut the wireless communications with the
network to reduce cost, power consumption, or bandwidth use. The break in
on-going communication or incapability to set up any communication can also
happen against the will of the user,
e.g., when a user enters a physical area where there is not any or not enough
field strength for a successful communication (a typical example is the train
entering a tunnel, which often leads to an abrupt decrease in the field from
the device point of view), battery becomes suddenly empty, or hand-over between
base stations does not succeed and the connection is therefore lost.
When analysing the different
situations, one must differentiate between non-reachability of the device from
the network because the user wants to exhibit her C-autonomy and
non-reachability of the device against the will of the user. The latter can be
called disconnection in the strong sense, if there was an ongoing connection
between the terminal and the network when the device became unreachable for the
network. But if the user just shut down the radio transmitter in the
middle of a connection, then this is a disconnection only from the network point of view. It is a voluntary disconnection from the user's point of view.
