I went to a a basic salsa dance class last week.
Good fun, but I felt I needed to catchup (60 next month) and Googled salsa to sharpen up with the basics (the class were all week 5, I was week 1).

Your website cameup, looked potentially good, but I totaly lost interest in the myriad of tabled information available.

Sorry, you may have good stuff there for joe bloggs who lives 5 miles from you but not really ineresting for 99.9999% of the world out there who don't really care for your class costs and timetabled blow by blow steps at
https://www.ballroomdancers.com/Dances/breakdown.asp?Dance=SAL&StepNum=1&Part=M
in a text form.

Hope this is useful, or you can delete out of hand. Totally up to you, no hard feelings - it is a great dance
Cheers
Mike

PS I won't be back to this site, so don't waste your time replying to me. Others might find it useful, so maybe not a total waste of time if you do pst something that will keep peoples attention - after all we pay to download so we want information for the best price and speed.

What a whine! I wonder what exactly this fellow expected?



jj

What the hell is he talking about? Mike, just in case you're lurking, did you check out the free videos in the Learn the Dances section?

Not only that, but if this fellow went to class five of a six-week session, there aren't too many video sites that are going to help him catch up that quickly. So he was a tad delusional as far as that goes. I think the videos on this site are quite helpful. I wish the variations of the week didn't always repeat over a series of weeks. I'd like to see a new one in there on occasion. If that were to happen, it would have to be labeled "new" or something for those of us who save the videos and/or notes, but don't pay too much attention now because we've seen them all.

This is the BEST and most useful dance website I've ever been able to find. And from the looks of it people from ALL over are using it - wonder where he got a statistic as precise as 99.9999% (he must think quite highly of his own importance)! As far as all the money he's paying to download - aren't the 'learn the dances' clips free? Wonder how much he expects to get for free...oh well, guess you get what you pay for.

Thanks for the support, everybody. I originally put this through partly because it was so funny, I just thought you'd all get a kick out of it. But then something occurred to me...

Obviously, the message is just a troll... If it weren't, he would have given some constructive information. But even a troll can inadvertently provide constructive information if you read between the lines. So even if his only intention was to try to incite with empty rhetoric, he nonetheless accidentally gave me something useful. For example:

The website must somehow mislead at least *some* people to think we're trying to sell classes at some local venue. (Perhaps the Google ads may have played a hand in his experience).

At least some percentage of people, possibly very large, is missing the fact that we have video-based instruction. So I should work harder to make the video more accessible, both in the learning center and even right on the homepage.

To be totally honest, most of the constructive criticism I get (probably somewhere around "99.9999%") is nothing new to me. I've either already heard it, already thought of it myself, already decided to do it but simply haven't gotten around to it, or I can't or shouldn't do it for some reason. The information this guy accidentally provided here is no different... Yes, those things need improving. But I already knew that. I just haven't worked on them yet.

That's not to say I don't welcome criticism, even though I may have heard it before, or thought of it myself. It's good to hear this stuff repeated, to get an idea which things are more important than others. It does affect the way I prioritize things. And every once in a while, I do hear something new that I'd never thought of before. So by all means, bring it on. I'm listening...

Regards,
Jonathan Atkinson
www.ballroomdancers.com

Jonathon, i read this as a genuine person, who got frustrated by the fact, that what HE wanted was not readily available .

having taught NUMEROUS individuals with the same mind set, it does not surprise me .

I doubt that there is a teacher out there, who has taught class work for any length of time,that has not had people attend classes, that were way out of their depth ..and subsequently never returned ( probably blaming the teacher ! )