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Ashleigh Marie | Isaac Matthew

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[habibekindheart.livejournal.com]

You might want to make use of promotion communities to get members. It's not proper etiquette to go inviting people without even checking with them or noting whether they're interested in a topic your community covers. That put me off initially.

Secondly, I don't have a basement, and even if I did, I would depend on my husband to take care of it. Basements just aren't something I care about. Atop that, because it's a business you're talking about, you may want to review the ToS to make sure you're not violating LJ's rules.

[lacombe.livejournal.com]

Promotion communities? I had no idea they existed, honestly. This is the second community that I've ever worked with. The first one is brigits_flame, but that one uses an entirely different approach and was also spotlighted by LJ, so building a user base was easy. But I've been inviting users to that community for months, and while not everyone accepts the invite, no one has ever told me that it was improper etiquette. I did base the invite on one of your interests- do it yourself. But yeah, I definitely see your point.

Checking out the TOS, I'm going to have to be careful about when I talk about the companies I work for, but I do plan on talking about other things I've learned while working here, like shower heads, vacuum cleaners, air purifiers, crafts, etc. that are not connected to the company in any business way. If I mention the company, I get to LJ at work! ;-) In a couple weeks, I'm going to write a piece about making candle jars by removing the bottoms from yard sale jars (colored glass, etc) and adding candles. I'm still trying to figure out the logistics for that right now.

I really appreciate the feedback- thank you so much! I hope I haven't offended at all, and I'm sorry for the presumptuous invite.

[habibekindheart.livejournal.com]

yeah. There are several community promotion communities. They can really boost your membership sometimes. Community_promo is one of them (linked in the ToS). However, because it links a business (brigits_flame is about creative writing, not business promotion), you might get crap from LJ.

Careful with yard sale jars. If people don't know what to look for, really old jars can be made of leaded glass. That's not something people want to be cutting into ;)

[lacombe.livejournal.com]

brigits_flame is the more appealing community anyways, so for now I dropped in and promoted it on a couple promotion coms.. If I find that I get a few members, I'm going to go ahead from there and see what happens with basementexperts. If it gets banned from LJ, it gets banned. We'll see- I think it's an OK community overall, and my goal is not just promotion.

Ideally, I'd like to see a variety of experts in there discussing and debating their opinions, but it's going to take some real persistence to get it to that point.

As far as the lead goes- I'd thought of that. I found a pretty cool trick on YouTube that seems to involved no immediate risk to the homeowner:





It seems to be a pretty harmless technique, even with leaded glass.

Thanks again!