Anyone need some good and positive business advice?

I love to hear from people who want info on advertising, marketing or? Hint. Hint. it is all centered on positivity!

Yes. I need good and positive advice. I previously posted a question that I put out to answers about building a partner program. It was "resolved" by someone thinking I was fishing for business. I wasn't. The web isn't about the thought police but this gentleman thought that was his role! Imagine!

I genuinely want to build a rocking partner model!
I have epaperchase (dot) com - coming out in January and I want to build a partner model that rocks. I've been in partnering roles that are fairly expansive (I was at IBM).

My partners will be folks who want to build their own business but don't want a franchise or MLM. We anticipate we're going to have to build software (like a forum, etc) but we're really hoping for more than that - more than FAQs, partner profiles, promotions, and contests. We want to make it far better than other types of partner programs. You've probably seen lots of them.

Now, the only rule(s?) - quality, not money, community, not lip service, plus metrics on how it works built into the model. Things like support, community, self-healing, and reinforcement that we're there for them are critical to this model - in other words, our values are right, now how to build it? What features would you look for?

Thanks in advance!

Sure I want to know how to recruit business professionals for a mentorship program.

Even though I joined Yahoo Answers in July 2007 - I only started contributing answers in earnest a couple weeks ago (and last week I was offline because I was working in training and management for a huge trade show here in Las Vegas) and already I've gotten a marketing mentoring client for my business. So, that's a very good sign.

Over 40% of my answers are getting the thumbs up for "Best Answer" which is great when you consider that many of the answers it appears - the asker doesn't come back and vote on. So, I'm happy with my results at Yahoo Answers so far.

I think most of the people who ask questions here are looking for positive helpful answers - especially since many of the answers seem to come from people who seem to make up for with enthusiasm what they lack in experience.

All the best,

Denise Michaels
Author, "Testosterone-Free Marketing"

Visit me online at http://www.MentoringwithDenise.com