Wow epic thread, this is one of the reasons i rarely visit BHW now days. The amount of BS threads that have been popping up more and more recently over the last few months is unreal. When I first joined I thought this place was a gold mine, helpful members, and valuable information, okay ya had to do a bit of digging to find the decent info but it was worth it. But now... Well theseodude speaks for it all really.. Glad to see some of the members I actually looked upto when I first joined talking sense still. People come to this forum thinking that they can make a fortune over night and in all reality it isn't like that at all. If anything you should treat it as a much bigger business as you would in the real world, say you start a car repair center in the Uk (bloody fellow brit here) do you think someone that's got a scratch on there door in the USA is gonna drive all the way to the UK to visit your "business". Online you have access to traffic from ALL OVER THE WORLD!! The potential to turn your life around from being a high school drop out to a millionaire is there! Just like in the real world, only online you have a much broader and vast customer base to promote your niche/product to. Yet people don't realize this.
I'll be honest, I didn't when I first joined, I was a high school drop out noob, didn't like working for someone else and earning them money so wasn't really going far in life, then one day a mate introduced me to computers and I was hooked, discovered bhw and realized the potential that is out there. Working for myself.. It's taken a while for me to realise that you have to treat it as a business but it's sunk in at long last! Just a shame that bhw has gone down hill a bit, no offense to the admins and mods as they do a quality job manageing the forum but if new members actually read, read, read and read more then hopefully they wouldn't be making dumb threads like this! There are some extreamly rich members here, not because they were born into a rich family but because they've got 1 thing that most new members don't.. Knowledge of the IM world!
On a side note, skype sucks since the new update, I've lost count of how many adds I get from e-whores...