SitePoint is Insane...

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http://www.sitepoint.com/reports/reportwebsurvey2006/purchaseoptions.php

$800.00 for thier 'State of the Web' report... wow... $15.00 a page!

People involved in the survey are getting a 40% discount, but thats still $450 being charge to people who basically supplied the survey content!

The prize they gave out to one lucky user for the survey contest was less than the price of one single user report ($500 Dell LCD).

I can see if it has stats about the comsumer and visitors to your site - in fact if that was the case, I'd probably try to get it. However paying $800.00 to see what fellow designers and coders are using is pretty crazy... As long as you use the right tools for the right job, who cares?
What do you guys think? I think Sitepoint's last few moves have shown that they are getting a little too greedy and forgetting who really keeps this site up and running - the user
 


I agree, they got too greedy. I will still got to DP sometimes, but I cannot stand goin to shitepoint. I think they cancelled my account because it had one post in 6 months.
 
What is your primary development environment?

13.74% other
30.46% text editor
4.45% zend
10.77% visual studio
40.43% dreamweaver

Now...how the fuck is that going to make me any money?! :action-smiley-052: That kind of info is worseless for marketers because we care about where the USER is at.
 
guysmy said:
What is your primary development environment?

13.74% other
30.46% text editor
4.45% zend
10.77% visual studio
40.43% dreamweaver

Now...how the fuck is that going to make me any money?! :action-smiley-052: That kind of info is worseless for marketers because we care about where the USER is at.
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It is going to make you money because when you realize 40.43% of the people are using Dreamweaver and some of them are making money, that there must be coconut sized balls of money just falling from the Internet Palm Trees out there and you got to get you some.

It has a lot to do with the fact that a susbtantial portion of the webmarketing infratstructure on the internet is targeted on itself. Since the best place to sell to webmasters is where they go to get information, you have that whole marketplace inside the webmaster world. A lot of people on webmaster forums target webmasters for their businesses. However, it is a skewed view of reality, almost all webmasters have NOTHING to do with the webmaster industry or supporting it.

I don't think I could make that any more confusing or less understandable if I tried. I don't even really know what I said now.
 
In every industry there will always be inflated prices and suckers ready to give out their money.

Affiliate Marketing is gobbling up everyone in its path and there's tons of money out there. The regular Joe hears about online marketing and the money it's making his friends so he decides to jump in at any cost. All of a sudden he's bought 6 eBooks and spent $300 on adwords without a single conversion.
 
stanley said:
In every industry there will always be inflated prices and suckers ready to give out their money.

Affiliate Marketing is gobbling up everyone in its path and there's tons of money out there. The regular Joe hears about online marketing and the money it's making his friends so he decides to jump in at any cost. All of a sudden he's bought 6 eBooks and spent $300 on adwords without a single conversion.
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That is the biggest thing too... I don't know of anyone who become succesful via the e-book path. Most of the people I know just did it and learned as they went. There is no magic recipe in a freaking e-book. While it is possible you might find a hidden gem in an e-book from time-to-time, the reality is if you have time to read freaking marketing e-books you are not working anywhere near hard enough on your business.

Time for reading other things? Sure... but if you are sitting there with time to read e-books, you are already too succesful to use the information, or you are not doing enough real work to make yourself succesful.
 
I guess that's what the online world is going to become:-

"You need to pay $ to get organized information/ access to special information"


Well fuck that.:action-smiley-052:
 
I'm old school - anyone else remember back when Sitepoint used to be Webmaster-Resources.com? That website used to be the shit - taught my 14 year-old ass how to make a decent website and make a little money.

Ah well, I stopped going after the owner merged/became Sitepoint...

-Q.
 
QMcFarlan said:
I'm old school - anyone else remember back when Sitepoint used to be Webmaster-Resources.com? That website used to be the shit - taught my 14 year-old ass how to make a decent website and make a little money.

Ah well, I stopped going after the owner merged/became Sitepoint...

-Q.
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Oh you mean before they started to write piece of shit books and sell them as the bible for whatever topic it was covering for lots and lots of cash? Yeahh I vaguely remember a site like that, but I also remember WMW when it was fun and before SP and WMW started to take it in the ass from one another.
 
Jon said:
Oh you mean before they started to write piece of shit books and sell them as the bible for whatever topic it was covering for lots and lots of cash? Yeahh I vaguely remember a site like that, but I also remember WMW when it was fun and before SP and WMW started to take it in the ass from one another.
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Haha, you got it Jon. Well, at least we have fuckin fantastic forums like WF now to get along.

-Q.
 
aeiouy said:
I don't think I could make that any more confusing or less understandable if I tried. I don't even really know what I said now.
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I agree.
 
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