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ISOJoe9000,
I dislike this kind of underhanded attempt to push/flog your product without even being straightforward enough to declare your interest.
You've been registered on the Cove since mid-2007, since when according to your stats you've made a not so grand total of 4 whole posts. I wonder if they also were only when you took an opportunity to flog your 'products'.
The Cove isn't for that - it's a place to help out people and discuss and debate and share opinions. And it's just normal professional behaviour (let alone common courtesy) that if there should be a case of conflict of interest or even the perception of the same, to be upfront about it. You did none of these things,. And as someone who does, I don't care for it.
Yes I have products also. I sell a 'Get ISO 9001' product (a DIY Pack) for people wanting assistance and clear guidance. And yes, it has support with it too.
But that isn't why I came (nor continue to come) to the Cove. And most ifnot all people do not come to the Cove searching for people to market stuff to them! (That's why search engines, for example exist). They come for info, they come for help, they come for conversation with like-minded professionals etc.
I certainly didn't have the hide to attempt this kind of not-so-subtle marketing trick on post #4 (or was it post #3?).
Problem is - people who do that kind of stuff make it difficult for everyone. Including people like me who don't. I don't attempt to push my products nor market them or flog 'em here, and neither do the many, many other people who actually regularly contribute to the development & helpfulness of the forum, help out and show up, day after day. Yup - they have day jobs too, and yup, they work (many of 'em) for organisations that sell services or products related to ISO 9001. Not all of them, but some of them.
But they give, not just take. And they don't just try and USE this place for their own self-serving ends, either. Please don't do this.
I think I'd written nearly 1000 posts before I so much as mentioned my own product, and then only because it was related to the thread topic and I thought it reasonable to be clear about my own position and possible interest. But I don't sell, and never will sell, that type of canned old-fashioned and oh so dreary and useless 'manual' written in turgid and incomprehensible 'ISO-ease'!
I dislike this kind of underhanded attempt to push/flog your product without even being straightforward enough to declare your interest.
You've been registered on the Cove since mid-2007, since when according to your stats you've made a not so grand total of 4 whole posts. I wonder if they also were only when you took an opportunity to flog your 'products'.
The Cove isn't for that - it's a place to help out people and discuss and debate and share opinions. And it's just normal professional behaviour (let alone common courtesy) that if there should be a case of conflict of interest or even the perception of the same, to be upfront about it. You did none of these things,. And as someone who does, I don't care for it.
Yes I have products also. I sell a 'Get ISO 9001' product (a DIY Pack) for people wanting assistance and clear guidance. And yes, it has support with it too.
But that isn't why I came (nor continue to come) to the Cove. And most ifnot all people do not come to the Cove searching for people to market stuff to them! (That's why search engines, for example exist). They come for info, they come for help, they come for conversation with like-minded professionals etc.
I certainly didn't have the hide to attempt this kind of not-so-subtle marketing trick on post #4 (or was it post #3?).
Problem is - people who do that kind of stuff make it difficult for everyone. Including people like me who don't. I don't attempt to push my products nor market them or flog 'em here, and neither do the many, many other people who actually regularly contribute to the development & helpfulness of the forum, help out and show up, day after day. Yup - they have day jobs too, and yup, they work (many of 'em) for organisations that sell services or products related to ISO 9001. Not all of them, but some of them.
But they give, not just take. And they don't just try and USE this place for their own self-serving ends, either. Please don't do this.
I think I'd written nearly 1000 posts before I so much as mentioned my own product, and then only because it was related to the thread topic and I thought it reasonable to be clear about my own position and possible interest. But I don't sell, and never will sell, that type of canned old-fashioned and oh so dreary and useless 'manual' written in turgid and incomprehensible 'ISO-ease'!
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