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You should find some Quora questions asking about self-promotion in Quora questions and let folks know this service exists.

Oh the irony in this one :)

There is a way to tastefully do it though. I often upvote answers that try to provide some kind of value before mentioning their product, as long as they do it in such a way that it isn't irritating or salesy...

Yes, the execution when it comes to self promotion is very important. No association, but I really like this answer[0] from CloudSponge, saying why their product is best on a thread asking for alternatives. What could have been very slimy comes across as genuine and helpful. It nearly converted me to a CloudSponge user when I came across the question while looking for alternatives.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-alternatives-to-CloudSpon...

Since he was invited to answer the question, I immediately assume the question itself was planted.

Seems more likely that someone in their PR team saw it and invited the him to answer, no?

Interesting idea though. Consider me out-cyniced

I remember when I was so harshly cynical like this. It was absolutely exhausting.

this is pretty much what I've done in for my startup http://documize.com but seems like Quora is bashing down now on any self promoting outgoing link, I think they are now under pressure to make more revenue from their ads

Yeah, it's really been a big turnoff for me. I think they are missing an opportunity though--rather than run kind of mediocre ads, they should enable a lead-gen model or create their own ad platform that lets users bid to be featured next to relevant questions based on keywords or specific posts. Some of the industries they have traction with would pay a LOT for a highly-qualified lead like they could potentially drive.

Done properly, it could be a user-beneficial value-add that aligns their interests with users and people spamming the responses. This could in turn give them leverage to clean up said comments via policy/automation. Make it prohibited to spam answers, but offer an easy way to promote your services with/without a response required, and charge a reasonable fee.

You are right but it's because answering a complicated question rewards you nothing. Now if the answer is just self promotion then I totally agree that it should get moderated and down voted

Or rebrand to Anecdotes.com

Wait until more people start using it as an ad channel. I'm getting $1 CPM and telling all of my customers to try it out. After that I'm coming for Stack Overflow.