Quote from Ken_DTU:
It's not appropriate to advertise "free seminars" here.
Many of us who train traders, myself included, offer free seminars on a regular basis to our opt-in lists. However, if a vendor is not an ET advertiser, posting "free seminar" or whatever types of posts here, is considered message-board spamming, and rightfully so.
I have offered free seminars to traders featuring everyone from Steve Nison, Alan Farley and others, and just did a tape-reading one for eSignal as well, yet I never post "free seminar" here to promote my site whenever I offer these events to traders worldwide.
Like most legitimate vendors, I pay for google and overture listings when I want to promote free seminars or special offers. And when I have a decent ad budget, I'll pay here as a regular advertiser as well. (knock on wood!)
If you pay to advertise here, that's fine to promote, subject to Baron's thoughtful guidelines. Otherwise there would be too much self-promotion. Just a heads-up, on board etiquette.
Unmoderated places like yahoo boards allow this, ET is a well-moderated message board where self-promotion is frowned upon... which is one reason why so many of us like it here, we don't have to see endless "free offers" from vendors all over the place.
It took me awhile to learn what's ok and what's not as well.. I suppose it's a learning process.
Ken
