One of the things I always liked about this forum is the more laid back atmosphere. Slower, quieter,etc.
But I think we've gotten TOO quiet.
Laid back and quiet, it is too bad you weren't here 1998 to 2003+. One post might get 100+ (within hours) replies and the debates were very heated but extremely helpful and thought provoking. Laid back and quiet it wasn't. But helping get a new Internet business up and running that you could do. Literally, hundreds of businesses were stated here on Tony's forum.
People in IM who are somewhat famous now, were complete noobs back in the day and came to Tony's forum for education and seek TB's input. It was not uncommon for Simon Grabowski posting about a new autoresponder he was developing (Tom Kulzer would also be posting) John Reese and Frank Kern coming on asking completely noobie questions.
Sanford Wallace might pop in to liven up the discussion. Yanik Silver, Corey Rudl were regulars. Willie Crawford posted most everyday. Adam Katz the dog training guy got his start on Tony's forum - seems like yesterday that he was asking questions about setting up a membership site and forum.
The much banned Don Alm was a regular. Jim Straw who it seemed was doing direct marketing was a regular. Adrian Ling was there as well as Michael Ross and a snot nosed kid Anik Singal.
One thing during this time Tony had double, triple or even more traffic than Allen Says had at the Warrior forum. I can't remember the reason but Tony didn't like the guy and used to bust his ass all the time.
During that time this was the go to place for all things IM or actually all marketing stuff in general.
Oh, Gary Halbert even made a some posts back in the day. The great copywriter Brian Keith Voiles (who wrote a great deal for Gary) was a regular and good friend of Tony's.
I have left out many of the old crew who got their start here. It is very sad to see that if this site was a horse it would be put down.
But Tony was the driving force behind the forum without his daily postings this forum is as good as dead. For whatever reason Tony decided that the forum was not one of his priorities.
If you want to keep up with cutting edge SEO you really need to spend some time on the Russian forums. We recently lost a pretty good forum when backlinksforum.com closed. The Warrior forum is very close to being worthless. Just garbage WSO's being sold to "warriors". I much prefer wickedfire and BHW now. BTW, Jon at Wickedfire picked up abusing Allen Says from where Tony left off.
For the few people posting here you just don't know what you missed - and it is too late for TB to resurrect this place. Once the magic is gone it - that is it - it is over.
I hope Tony is having fun at whatever he chose to do but don't let a once great place whither away just close it down.
DR
PS My apologies to the hundreds other posters from the past who I omitted.
