ATTENTION PEOPLE SELLING OR GIVING AWAY ANYTHING: Rules About (mostly against) Self-Promotion

[[Admin] danroth]

We love having industry experts and professionals, and a wide variety of churches and other non-profit ministries involved in our community. However, to make our community more attractive to members, you may not solicit customers or sales..

If you want to advertise yourself, please buy paid advertising through the Advertising Program. Please consider a Business Membership which allows you to place information about your business in your forum signature.

The best way to get customers is to contribute your knowledge and be helpful just like everyone else. Eventually both your knowledge and your personality will become known to our community who will seek you out.

* If your company or ministry sells or gives away products or services to churches, you may not solicit customers or sales nor promote your company or product in any post, nor in your signature

Promoting yourself includes, but is not limited to:
* soliciting any community members by private message or email
* encouraging people to contact you and/or your business privately
* discussing your prices/fees for products/services
* making many posts merely for increased exposure
* including contact information such as your business name, address, telephone number, email address, website, etc. in your posts or signature
* using your business name and/or website as your "church" which appears in your member profile and in the posts you make

Please note that none of the above should be construed to prohibit genuine customer support activities, such as answering a question about a problem or feature of your product.

Only if you are a current advertiser or business member (or have special permission as a significant contributor to the community) may you put a link to your site in your signature. Special permission is not given routinely, and is primarily given to long-term participants and significant supporters of the community.

We reserve the right to edit any content or ban any member without notification for any reason and remove their posts from our community. The most common reason is for repeated violation of this policy.