Oh Ev Nucci, you are full of crap. You don’t come to another person trying to help them by talking DOWN TO THEM. And that is exactly what you were and continue to do to Sara with your comments, such as:

“And so many women are ugly and small. Why would you want to be like that?”
“If you are basing due diligence simply and soley on spelling errors then you have a lot to learn about business.”

Surely someone with the magnitude of character that you claim to have can see how that would be perceived as talking down, hmm? So give up the pretense of just trying to get Sara to see the other side of the picture, ok?

And if you’ll go back and reread Sara’s original post, she was in no way tearing down Divya. She was questioning the legitimacy of the contest. And while you may know your shit about start up companies, I know some shit about marketing and PR. I’ve been in the biz for over 2 years and my husband has been in the business for 12 and he has done several contest, giveaways, raffles, sweepstakes and let me explain something to you. You do not make the promises of cash winnings BEFORE you have the cash secured. 100% secured, contracts signed, names in place in advertising. Otherwise, you’ll be questioned in terms of legitimacy. You have to be able to give complete disclosure or you’re skirting the lines of legality.

Until we see disclosure of who is backing her $100k prize, then I’ll continue to skeptical over the legitimacy and doubt that it is on the up and up.

Divya may be a nice person, I don’t know. I do know not all scam artists are assholes. So the niceness of her personality is not going to keep me from questioning whether this is a scam or not, especially when there is not complete disclosure of the contest.

– From ‘A Virtuous Woman’, by Kaye Gibbons.

In no way did I demean what you do, because I do not know what you do. What I simply suggested was that before you blast someone or what they are doing you learn about whatever the issue is… That’s all. I in no way intended to send the message to you that you somehow interpreted as derogatory towards what you do or how you live your life.

I didn’t like the fact that I left comments at Antman’s place and didn’t address them directly to you. I do my best to do the right thing…and that was my only goal.

Start-ups are difficult…extremely…and how could you know that if you haven’t done one before right? Just like how could someone who has never given birth to a child knopw what that is like? They can’t. A start-up is just like a child..except it’s in business. When you’re first a Mom, you don’t know what you’re doing…at least I didn’t in the beginning. You flouder around don’t you? You’re trying to figure things out right? A start-up is the same way. That’s all.

Plesae do not take this message as anything other than trying to help you understand….that is my only intent. I don’t even know this other woman. I went to the site one time…couldn’t load it. So I have no vested interest in this at all………..don’t even know who the other lady is. I just sit in one place…and its doing what I can to help women be a great as they can be.

I promise should I ever decide to stop getting pregnant, put on shoes, and venture out of the kitchen, you’ll be the first person I go to.

Thanks also for the character lesson, though I think you left out humility and modesty.

Oh, I guess there’s a reason for that. Nevermind.

What’s the point in bringing down this other young lady? Why? What do you gain? What’s your objective? But here’s a lesson in start-ups. You put it out there and develop it as you go, otherwise if you wait for perfection you will never launch.

Now I’m a pathetic perfectionist and I guarantee you, you will find LOADS OF MISTAKES on things I do because the reality is I DO A WHOLE HECK OF ALOT……..MORE THAN 98% OF THE POPULATION.

So, my suggestion is ask yourself what your motivation is…why are you doing whatever it is that you are doing. And I am dead serious.

If you are writing something you know nothing about…why don’t you go check out bloggers that write about start ups…you might learn something in the process. I’m not suggesting you read my stuff, go check out Success From the Nest. He’ll teach you something.

Here’s what I do have an issue with…you don’t often find men do this kind of thing…it’s generally women…and that’s what I want you to think about..that’s all.

What’s the point and what was your goal? To protect consumers? Or to bring her down? If your goal was to protect consumers, then before you ever again consider throwing any stones at anyone else, do a lot more due diligence. MOre importantly give the person an opportunity to respond to your inquirty. Otherwise, what are you doing to that person? It’s ugly. Plain and simple.

If you are basing due diligence simply and soley on spelling errors then you have a lot to learn about business.

Don’t be so harsh to judge someone who’s trying to do something. This is how cyber bulling starts. Don’t get on a band wagon…it’s ugly and cruel. You have the capacity to big…not small. And so many women are ugly and small. Why would you want to be like that? You don’t want to small….you want to be big…so go forth in the world and be a big person.

Big people help other people be big…they don’t bring them down.
That just makes you small.

You may have noticed some of the negative blog posts which have been floating around the web today with regards to Blogging to Fame, a project run by Indian blogger Divya Uttam!
It all came to my attention when Antman from Cre8buzz messaged me this mor…

I must say that you all are misquoting / misreading what her wrote:

I can’t tell ya, I know Divya personally and that I know the ins and outs of Blogging to Fame, but what I can tell you is my interaction with her has been nothing but tight!

He say’s that he “can’t tell ya” that he knows Divya personally or the workings of BTF but what he CAN tell you is that his interaction with her has been good.

So please cut the Antman some slack….

Now, as for the BTF thing. I, like the Antman, have had some interaction with Divya but do not know her personally.

Divya has what used to be a great blog, although it has gone downhill since the launch of BTF, and scam or not, it is evident that she has been working on BTF like crazy.

I had problems creating my account on BTF (although I haven’t used it) and Divya got the issue sorted personally.

From my experience interacting with her she appears to be on the level.

That said, I can see why you would have concerns about BTF.

I sent an email to Divya this morning to find out what’s going on and I’ll let you all know the result.

I’m not promising to repost the email but depending on it’s content I will make up my mind and weigh in on the matter!

Take it easy,

Paul

Avoid at all costs, Nancy Drew. Thanks for the heads up!

Ummm… yeah… because the first thing you would do with a contest would be to start the contest, with “rules” that haven’t been vetted by anybody that even remotely speaks English.

The contest “starts” in mid-June, yet people are able to get votes “now” eh? I guess so, since there is no rule that says they can’t.

Of course, I can’t understand, why a contest with so much money to give away, has an “unofficial blog” (as opposed to an official one)… oh and it is SOOOO professional that the unofficial blog is hosted on Blogger. C’mon now… On Blogger? Really?

Oh, and from said blog, “We can’t announce the names of the the sponsors because we are still working out the bugs in the website”

Say it now with me… WHAT?!?

snort

And let me tell you, my blog is backed by big names on the ‘net, only it’s a super secret and you can’t see them on there yet. Just wait, they will be, but in the meantime please give me all of your personal information.

Yeah, I got the smarts real good.