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Originally Posted by sarettah

Soooo. Your blogging forums is not for folks to learn how to make money using blogs (now one of the easiest ways for a newb to start in this business)?

There will always be room for newbs in this or any other business that is going to last. You cut off the newbs and you cut off new ideas, new ways of looking at stuff, you become jaded and tunnel vissioned out.

Competition is what makes businesses thrive and grow, it also takes some out, that is how evolution works. If the business does not evolve then it stagnates.

I am not in favor of trying to convert every surfer into a webmaster anymore than I am in favor of turning every webmaster into a programmer (my bailiwick) however, as you know, if asked the question I will try to give an honest answer and help a person along their way. Paying it forward as it were. If they become a better programmer (or webmaster) than me that is my problem not theirs. If they become my competition, so be it, like I said competition forces change, forces me to keep up with what is going on, forces me to think outside the box.

I might not always like it but that is the way the world works.

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