How You Can Help Promote these Forums

[Joy Habuya]

Thank you that was very helpful.

[Kufre Samuel 1]

Posting the approved Review with the picture will likely bring lots of traffic to the Forum. Let's leverage on our Social media platform there are lot of users there.

[Idigo Isaac]

I will invite some of my friends to join I that's a good way to promote this forum

[Tiffany Dowell]

Part of the reason that OnlineBookClub is losing attraction is due to ITS independent reviews, outside of its users, owners and admins' standards and approval, on third-party platforms that are not directly associated with it. OnlineBookClub shows up on Reddit, Goodreads, Amazon, Facebook, Quora, TrustPilot, and a whole host of other platforms across the web, voicing past members and present, and there's no "control what's seen by the general web cloud" buttons out there. I've seen authors tell other authors that it amounts to highway robbery for dollar store quality, I've seen reviewers report MULTIPLE failure to pay accusations, and I've even seen rumors of tax evasion and avoidance. So, no matter WHAT a few "Twitter mob" members, on EITHER side say or think, for better or worse, those who love it and those who accuse it, when their voice is softer than the pitchfork mob's judgment, public opinion wanes, and a product, service, or endeavor fails. Period, end of story. In the same way that rave reviews sent 50 Shades of Grey into one of the most sold and debated books of the modern age, rage reviews can send a platform to its grave. This is what CEOs forget ALL THE TIME, and why their companies go belly up, yeah it may be YOUR company, but without that cashier ringing up your customers or that janitor scrubbing your toilets over there, you're the boss of nothing. Gaming developers, corporate businesses, politicians, celebrities, and stock markets, all face the court of public opinion. I haven't been here long enough to know either way if the Twitter mob is taking accurate, honest shots or not, but I have been along long enough to know, never trust a smile that has something to gain, especially when we're talking money. Facebook likes and Twitter shares wont clean up sh*t on the floor if it's still there and it still stinks, nor will it clean up incoming sh*t on the floor.

What OnlineBookClub needs is its own review. It needs to step back, and instead of sticking books under the microscope, stick it self under there, find the open wounds and broken bones, sew them up, set them right, and heal them, in a consistent, proven, demonstrated, measurable, and tangible turnaround. Or, it will bleed out and die under "death by a thousand paper cuts" logic. Sometimes, brutal honesty will open an eye that needs it better than clique following fanfare, but only for the wise. It's not difficult to make a million, plenty of people make a million -- and then lose everything a decade later due to pride. It's not difficult to create a rave, it's difficult to keep it alive. Every poker player knows it doesn't MATTER if you got it, the question is, can you KEEP it, and we bet on the long game, that it's just a matter of time.

I've seen their side. Being a woman, I'm smart enough to not fall for "hey beautiful" and a box of chocolates by now, I don't suck up and the fastest way to lose my respect is to be a suck-up. Credibility is everything. I see a focus on the reviewer's credibility, but not a lot of self-judgment of the site. If your mods are making choices that lose their credibility to the authors, to the reviewers, you need to root disease out of the bloodstream of your brainchild or it will kill you slowly, like smoking slowly kills tobacco addicts.

Am I siding with the twitter mob? No, I've been here for less than a week.

CLOSING the Public Suggestions and Review Team Support forums, THOUGH there may be a good reason, was a TERRIBLE business move. Think of it like this, those two forums are the glass window into this place, for two very big questions. Do you care about anyone but yourself and your profits from this place, and do you care about your people and clients. Shutting the curtains LOOKS to the public like when a guy closes the blinds just before he smacks his wife -- if all is clean and good, why hide?

Food for thought.

Like I said, I've been here only a week. I don't make snap judgments. But I'm 40, and I've been around the block a few times in too many different interpretations of the phrase. Some wisdom doesn't change, no matter whether the where and what changes or not. IF the salty twitter mob is right, and yelling the truth, then no matter how egotistical the trust fund kid's attitude is when he pisses on the electric fence surrounding his boat house, yelling about how it's HIS boat house -- well, the gardener has the last laugh when he "cooks his hot dog off", end of story.

I don't listen to the twitter mob, I looked at all the pitchforks before I registered here. I've been here a week, and I will make my own judgments, and act accordingly. You know how 2000 reviews on Amazon gets a book attention and reviews and sales and essentially, lifeblood? That door swings both ways. A book can launch, and an endeavor can die.

I have a suggestion. For those of you doing reviews, screenshot everything with snip tool. Screenshot your review, its submission, your feedback on it's submission, your response, the resolution, and the confirmation. If it's a paid book, and you submit it, screenshot the whole process. Screenshot the submission, the interaction between you and OnlineBookClub, AND SCREENSHOT your PayPal (JUST THE PART WHERE THEY SHOW $X.00 ADDED BY ONLINEBOOKCLUB WITH THE REST BLACKED OUT), and when you share and review the site to attract or speak for it, add that to your reviews of the site in your attempt to help promote and attract people. The question people have MOST OF ALL is, is this place credible, fair, trustworthy, honest, and not run by an electric fence pissing trust fund mini Hitler. The BEST review you can give is NOT fawning "Oh it's so nice looks great comfy chair", it's proving that they can and should TRUST this place.

I saw a post reply from Scott on something yesterday and he said "Honesty and trust are everything, the highest law of this place, and the make or break here". IF that road goes BOTH WAYS, and he both enforces and LIVES it himself, if OnlineBookClub leads it, lives it, does it, obeys it, AND demands it, help them PROVE it, and that proof will start spraying out the twitter mob torches. IF that kind of proof cant be obtained because it doesn't exist because OBC is full of sh*t, well, let it piss on the fence while the twitter mob burns the boathouse. Its all really quite simple.

[Vicki M. Taylor]

Have you stopped the short story contest?