wrong... we have no ability to directly promote our business on vb.org, and even if we post properly, are useful to the community and have a good reputation here, this is nothing to help our own business.

the reason is simple: the only things we can release here are free stuff any good coder can code. if you're not to do it, someone else will -- so for a job this is the same, if you are like the others, if you are not good enough for the job, they will take someone else who can do the same.

also, having a good reputation here is complicated, because you have to follow so much rules to be respected that it worth no effort to do so. most of the real coders here are good admins or at least good coders, that does not mean they will be hired for their potential... you can post a good article without being able to apply the whole thing in your job.

as we are not ranked for our efforts on the community (the "Thanks Posts" would be a ranking of it), there is nobody in the market who can rate your potential here. the number of releases have no meaning, you can have a 5 lines code downloaded 5000 times without being a chef-d'oeuvre of coding. and from what i see lately, there is a bunch of releases that are made from the clients, not the coders, and are unsupported... the clients wants to have exclusive ownership of the codes, so they release it for the image... pathetic but not new.

One of the good thing to find a good market though is to act on your own AND participate here and there... i did not gain the reputation i have only by posting on vb.org -- i received too much warnings here to be a proof of behaviorism.. lol you also have to promote yourself outside the shell and show that you're better than the others... releasing small hacks is nothing worth the effort, as from point one, anybody can do it... and if you have a team that do the job for you, it worth even less... you have to raise your head, be better, ahead of the others.

(and be prepared to answer stupid requests from people with cash)