How often do you check your websites? I just started building websites in the past 6 months, and I really didn’t know too much about the smaller direct sales companies until then either. But there is a direct sales company that closed in January, and I just went to a website that had an ad for that business, and had it listed as one of the websites sponsors. Now me being as nosy as I am-clicked the link, and it didn’t work. I’ve never been to this website before, and I really don’t think that I’d go back again. After all, if you can’t take a company that shut down in the middle of the night 6 months ago off of your website, then I don’t think you’re keeping the website up to date enough for me to want to get information from you. The strange thing to me is that it apparently this was a big deal when the business closed, yet I’ve seen the business listed several places-there are still forums which have the company listed..I personally think it would be easier to click the button and delete the whole forum for that business, but at least put a notice up saying the company is defunct so people won’t be posting messages about how to get involved with a business 3 months after it closed. I’ve also seen people calling for that company to be a vendor at a vendor fair, or to be a sponsor for other sites…now it’s mainly in lists of direct sales companies, but I would still want to know a little about the companies I was thinking about sending my customers too, and I would like to think that I care enough about my business to check and make sure every thing is up to date. I’m sure you get busy, and forget to do things…but still… 6 months is a long time to be advertising a dead business.