March is marching right along, and soon April will be here. For most of us this means showers, and lots of them. But this brings on the May flowers, and then we know spring has really arrived.

This month my heart and prayers goes out to all the people who have been hurt or have lost loved ones in the earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan, and everyone else who was affected by it. May God bring peace to those who remain.

This month I've chosen a friend and mentor whom I've known since her inception into the Adland Community... her name is Kathleen VanBeekom.

Over the past year I have seen what a hard worker Kathleen is. Her devotion not only to the community, but also her ability to commit. Once she decides to do something, she sticks with her plan, and she has been well rewarded for it.

The Adland Community as a whole, has sometimes had the ability to voice opinions. This in itself is actually a good thing, if done in the proper perspective. Kathleen is one of these persons who will stand her ground if she believes what she is trying to represent is of worthy note. I respect those who do this, so long as no persons are stomped on in the process.

Let's welcome Kathleen VanBeekom to the Center Stage!

        James Wright

I've been an affiliate of Adlandpro Classifieds since 1998 and I was getting most of my traffic from there in the late 1990's.  Then I started with the Community in 2006 and gained a lot of signups for my business offers and got to know a lot of people from around the world.  I still run into lots of Adlandpro Community members all over the internet in different networks, people from here recognize each other's names and photos for years!
 
What have I gained from Adlandpro?  Lots of contacts, and better social skills, yes, really! Networking is a great way to hone our sociability.
 
What would I like to see more of?  Higher traffic like we had a long time ago...if everyone who's also a member of Facebook would also click the F logo to share our posts to our Facebook profile, that could create a snowball effect in getting people to click IN here from Facebook!
 
I owe my success to contacts I've made here, emulating people who are successful... Adlandpro is PART OF our advertising efforts, even though we're all over the internet in dozens of places, the classifieds/advertising area brings in clicks to our ads on a consistent basis.
 
Actually, the reason I got involved in the Community 5 years ago was to have something to do, so people in my real life would think I was serious about online marketing, and then that  "having something to do online" became part of my day, every day.  The Community was a good place to be.
 
It still should be, would be, could be greater than Facebook, yes, that IS my real opinion, IF everyone here would blast Adlandpro forum posts to Facebook all the time, every day, and arouse the curiosity of everyone on all of our Facebook friendship lists.
 
That's a simple thing to do and it can bring about fantastic results IF a lot of us will DO that. Thanks for reading me, and I hope Adlandpro is still around for another 13 years, with more new waves of great people, we all need to bring in more people to FIND those great people.
 
Looking for "something to do" in 1998 has brought about a lot of changes for me, a feeling of success, higher income, good friends online and in real life ;)
 
It's also been a place for poetry, photos, life stories, and being ourselves, even if ourselves are sometimes confrontational, that's being human, and the internet is all people, all the time.
 
I procrastinated in writing this, I wrote a list of my daily words and tried to think...
 
Relentless
Daily
Unique
Detailed
Exuberant
 
Those are all the things I am, whether they are good or bad, sometimes both, those are the words that make us, change us, create our situations, make our days. Adlandpro also makes a lot of our days.
 
Does it make you exuberant? Is it unique enough to compete in 2011?  Did you like the details of my write-in election of 2009? 
 
I told some people that if they were more detailed in what they do, they'd earn more money, lol! I did since last summer 2010, because I'm relentless, that also almost cost me a lot in personal relationships, but I stay relentless in what I want, friendships will be maintained, relentlessly, if they are valuable.
 
Will we all work to maintain Adlandpro Community? Is it valuable enough to hold onto with fierce love of "something to do, some place to be"? 
 
I hope so with all new hopes from 1998 and 2006, daily relentless unique detailed exuberance, it was here once, is it still here?