Offer Your Suggestions on How to Grow DU's Marketplace

[Le Taz Hot]

11. Thanks so much for your suggestions.

It's sort of a Catch-22 in that people won't come here until we get content but people may not want to post content because it gets such little traffic. DU2 Marketplace used to get MUCH more traffic than the DU3 version. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe people just lost the link in the transition.

I keep meaning to post something about the DU Marketplace in GD on Saturday or Sunday when, I would imagine, there's much more traffic than on the weekdays but I haven't managed to do it yet. (I'm not sure the Hosts will allow it to remain. I suppose I'll find out one way or another when I try it.) I think a LOT of DUers don't even know we're here AND the DU Marketplace is hard to find anyway (Economy and Education--> DU Marketplace) but a link directly in a GD post might at least raise awareness of its existence.

I know the DU Marketplace is for anyone who wants to sell anything but I've asked Tansy Gold to consider maybe pinning a thread for those of us who make our own product and who have websites/blogs so we can have a permanent link and a permanent presence in the Group. We could still offer individual threads featuring our latest and greatest projects as well, but it might be good to have sort of a permanent, fixed list for DU's artisans/crafters.

Finally, would you consider posting info on your work/website on DU3? My own blog isn't up yet (I'm currently working on getting up some inventory) or I'd have something up right now.

Anyway, thanks so much for your response and please feel free to share any other thoughts you might have.

LTH