Thank you Judy for your marketing advice!

[bright sparks]

One of Judy`s responses on another thread to someones questions and concerns was to direct them to her daycare coaching website, so this is most definitely advertising her business. That being said, I personally didnt think there was anything wrong with that as it didnt effect me directly and it was simply advising someone that there was a service available for them. From the perspective of a website like this though which relies heavily on advertising to generate money as the forum, daycare listings and search engine for parents is free, I can see why that would not be allowed.

I am also glad that someone else has noticed and pointed out that a big announcement was made RE Judy`s departure from the forum, which as a result caused a huge thread of responses, but all of a sudden she returns with her new business venture. It`s not that it is in anyway an issue, she has valuable perspectives that enrich this forum and I for one was recently wishing she was here to give her views and opinions a few weeks ago on a member and a specific situation that came up, who was with us just since January and left us a couple of weeks ago, but I to the conclusion from her final post and was lead to believe that she was gone for good and then saw that her return was accompanied by her new daycare business venture.

I don`t think anyone needs to be pissed off. Nobody was rude, just gave their perspective. Of course this is a place for difference of opinions which includes different perceptions. It doesnt necessairily make one person right over the other though. I dont think anyone needs to apologize if they didnt make some kind of personal remark to another, and in response I dont think people need to take things so personally when they arent actually having any mean or vindictive comments directed towards them.

To Blackcat, I have to say I didnt think you meant a link to Judy`s actual website as that is right their on her profile page or if you click on her name it allows you to link directly to her website, and also at the bottom of each of her postings it is there, or have they been removed. I thought you mean`t she had linked something else in a response to a thread and that had been removed. What was it you were actually referring to *EDIT...sorry I thought this was the OP who asked but reread that it was blackcat so editted the post to reflect this*

*I apologize for poor punctuation. My daughter has changed the settings to french punctuation and so I cant do half the things I need to lol*