Reply To: 📢 LINKEDMUSICIANS 2.0 UPDATE THREAD. PLEASE READ & SUBSCRIBE.

[LinkedMusicians]

Instead of being us both being overwhelmed by tons of deal posts, LinkedMusicians 2.0 is going to focus only on GREAT deals. I’m going to spend less time on curating deals and depend on our community for posts. I’m going to hold developers to only posting deals that meet specific discount percentage criteria. There’s too much noise with developers doing lackluster sales and repeating the sale discounts time and again. It’s burned us all out. So we’re going to cut through the noise and get to the truly fantastic deals.

Once again, the community isn’t going away, it’s moving to our subreddit where it’s going to have a much better chance to grow faster than it it could to here, and without all of the administrative work and regulatory requirements, and related cost and time investments it takes to run a full-blown social media platform like LinkedMusicians.

Putting on my strategist hat, there is a long-term trend away from legacy forums. They’re rapidly dying out, while Reddit is flourishing and has a strategic partnership with the most important search engine in the industry, Google.

LinkedMusicians.com will serve as a place for unbiased information, research, and reviews from users like you. I would like to develop it into an ethical version of sites like Trust Pilot (in case you didn’t know, Trust Pilot offers companies with poor reviews subscriptions where, in effect, they can bury bad reviews and warnings that they received prior to their subscriptions), but geared specifically for music production products like sample libraries, plugins, etc. We can use our existing member group to populate reviews. I am also contemplating doing an email — I already signed and paid for a contract with an email provider,  so it’s already paid for and I know it can be very valuable way of keeping our members up to date on amazing deals, glitch sales and other topics of interest.

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