Thanks for writing this post, Kirk. Kudos to those owners who are on top of their game in managing their sites.

But, you hit the nail on the head when it comes to some owners and some of the emails they send out to their members. The emails that I ignore are the ones asking members to join them in another program under their link.

Your advice on promoting your own site should not even have to be mentioned. This should be done everyday all day so members will see that the owner is not relying only on them to promote the site and bring in new members.

Finally, I've seen numerous sites where the owner/admin is in the Top 5 surfing. Of couse, an owner should surf his site to make sure everything is loading correctly and running so the member has a smooth surfing experience. Too often I've encountered missing prize and bonus pages (within the first 50 - 100 pages) that the owner has offered its members. Surfing 100 pages to make sure they display correctly I don't think is a waste of any owner's time.