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C o n t i n u i n g D i s c u s s i o n s (2)
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1.) URL Redirection Service
~Chris A Leilich
2.)Shopping Cart
~ Corinne
N e w P o s t s (5)
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1).Mike Lemmon
~ Chat Room/Streaming Audio
2.) Melody Treece Vargas
~ Need: RETAIL feedback/interviews
3.)Chris Gozdzik
~Technical question
4.) Don Wetmore
~ Workaholics
5.) Fiona
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From: Chris A Leilich <chris@businessbug.com>
Subject: URL Redirection Service
>From: "Afizah Bani Hashim" <afizahbh@tm.net.my>
>Subject: URL Redirection Service
>In Adland Digest #137, Ross W, Reyman, Jr. <rwreyman@sonic.net>
>wrote about getting a redirection service to enable us to blast the new
>URL and double our hits. I tried http://www.cybername.net for a URL
>redirection and I must say I'm truly impressed. Now instead of having
>a long URL which is not easy for people to remember, I've got not only
>a shorter URL but also looks more professional. No more hassles of
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Dear fellow AD readers,
In response to the post "URL Redirection Service" by "Afizah Bani
Hashim"
<afizahbh@tm.net.my> in AD#138, I must agree that his new (redirected) URL does
look better, but I don't believe it will be anywhere near as effective as
spending $35 a year to get ones own domain name.
This is the new URL: http://abh.web-page.net
How do you read and remember URLs that you see 'out there'?
I always ignore the 'http://www.' in front and the '.com' after and just
remember the middle part.
Then when I am at my computer, i type in www.{what i remember}.com, and if that
fails, www.{what i remember}.co.uk, and failing that www.{what i remember}.net.
Where does that leave you? http://abh.web-page.net advertises the service
(www.webpage.com/net, I assume), rather than your site. And this is how you
'pay' for this 'free' service.
You don't plan to advertise off-line? You should, it is the best place for it.
Don't you see all those URLs on posters, vehicles, and TV commercials? Every
commercial for a Mattel toy, has got the Mattel website address (home page)
piggybacked at the end of it, not the full address that would bring you straight
to ordering the toy, that the user is supposed to find him/herself..
BTW, I am not affiliated with InterNIC (they don't have a program), but I have a
link to a free database of unused domain names on my site. Visit
www.businessbug.com/unclaimd.htm
Chris A Leilich -
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From: "Corinne" <skinny@werewolf.net>
Subject: Shopping Cart
In answer to Erics Question Dated 11/5
YES go to http://www.uburst.com
They have an unlimited fully functional shopping cart program called uShop.
It it Cut & Paste EASY. Try it uLike uShop
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From: Mike Lemmon <ISCMKTG@webtv.net >
Subject: Chat Room/Streaming Audio
Hi Bogdan:
Thanks again for providing such a great newsletter, I can't say enough
how it is helping us to progress our site.
We are currently looking to add both streaming audio and a chat room to
our site.
If yourself or one of your subscribers could provide us with information
on how to go about doing this, we would greatly appreciate it.
Also, we are always looking for feedback on our site. We recently
requested a site review but did not receive any response.
Talk to you soon!
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From: "Melody Treece Vargas" <retailindustry.guide@about.com>
Subject: Need: RETAIL feedback/interviews
Hi Bogdan and Adlanders:
For my About.com Guide Site, I am currently
writing a series of articles and reference materials
on establishing friendships with retail customers.
The series covers a variety of retail loyalty programs,
permission marketing, branding, privacy issues, store
interactivity and more. Both online and offline retailers
and their programs are being featured. In addition,
there will be added focus on the pros and cons of the
different methods. The introduction to the series can
be found at:
http://retailindustry.about.com/library/blloyalty.htm
I'd like to know if anyone has:
1) Good examples or horror stories related to the theme.
2) The desire to participate in an email exchange or a
brief phone interview on what your company or client is
doing that is working or not working.
3) Good examples of how branding has created friendships
with your customers or your clients customers.
4) Other ideas you feel are related to the theme and retail.
These all need to relate to the RETAIL Industry, I will not
be able to use services or business op examples, sorry.
I am willing to talk to businesses that provide customized
loyalty programs to retailers.
The series will be updated weekly for the next 6 weeks.
It will become a permanent feature on the site with a
reference index when completed. This will make your
contributions to the series available to our readers well
into the future. My site is in the Business Channel of
About.com, which is one of the top sites on the Internet
according to Media Metrix.
Melody Treece Vargas
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Retail Industry Guide, About.com
http://retailindustry.about.com/
retailindustry.guide@about.com
or melodyt@success-solution.com
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From: Chris Gozdzik <diviningmind@diviningmind.com>
Subject: technical question
Czesc Bogdan, hi everybody,
I recently re-done my page, added a couple of banners - and the page
is loading very slowly, as they reside somewhere else.
Is there a way to speed it up? I don't have a way of making the
banner files smaller, but maybe there is a trick that would allow me
to have them load last, so the rest of my page would be operational?
I'm also not very happy with my navigation system and I would
appreciate any input on that.
Take care!
Chris Gozdzik
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http://www.diviningmind.com
P.O. Box 189 GREENWOOD, B.C.
V0H 1J0 Canada
(250) 445-2277
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Note from Editor.
If you were wandering what Chris meant
by saying "Czesc Bogdan" this is greeting
in Polish which means "Hi Bogdan"
I'm curios how many Polish speaking
or understanding people are here on the list.
Just curios.
To Chris.
Jak ci leci?
B.F.
======================N e w P o s t i n g (4)========================
From: "Don Wetmore" <ctsem@email.msn.com>
Subject: Workaholics
It was recently announced that Americans are working 500 hours
more per year now than just ten years ago. We now put in more
work hours per week than anyone else. Leisure time is down and
burnout rates are up.
I composed a short article that, in a tongue and cheek way,
addresses the issue. It's called, "You Just Might be a
Workaholic", and identifies 28 "symptoms". I would be happy to
share it with members of the List. To get your free copy, email
your request for "might" to: ctsem@msn.com
Don Wetmore-Professional Speaker
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======================N e w P o s t i n g (5)========================
From: "Fiona " <info@jofi.net>
Subject: New promotion service
Dear Bogdan,
I have stumbled across something new I thought has great potential to
increase hits and get visitors to your site.
Right now it appears to be very new and its success will be dependent on the
number of people who join.
It is a completely free way to get visitors to your site and increase your
hits and I thought your members may enjoy a new way of increasing traffic :)
I guess you could liken it to a banner or link exchange programme, with a
difference.
When you join you select a category you wish to be listed in, which may be
anything from automobiles, business through to sports, health and
entertainment ( 12 categories in all)
You are given a small banner to place on your site.
On sign up you enter the URL of where you have placed the banner. (I liked
this idea as you weren't forced into placing it on your homepage but could
direct your visitors to a particular page) You are then put into a rotating
"list of sites" (according to your chosen category).
You build up credits by "hitting" or clicking on the other sites in your
list.
The concept is pretty simple in that the more credits you build up the more
often your own site will be visited.
http://147.31.101.238/join.asp
Bets wishes,
Fiona :)
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Getting Too Much Email These Days? This Will Help.
By Leon Brickey.
"Send 10, 000 Spam Free Emails Every Day!" read the headline for the ad.
Sounds awesome doesn't it??.. NOT!
In fact sending 10,000 of those type emails will do little more than get
you 10,000 additional emails you didn't really ask for.
If you are gonna market online and have contact with lots of people; you
might as well be ready to deal with lots of email. Because you are gonna
get it! Sheesh! Lots of it!
In fact it CAN get to the point that it can take so much of your time daily
downloading email and sorting through it that it affects you, your
business, and YOUR PROFITS. Not to mention taking up space on your email
programs, servers, hard drives, etc.
You have a couple options here?
1) You can get active in the anti-spam movement and spend all your time
reporting spammers and tracking down senders of UCE. This is fine. But I
just don't have the time or desire to report everybody. I'm here to make
money; not enemies. However if I get multiple emails for the same offer and
it's obvious they've harvested all my email addresses from my websites or
ezine I always report those. (You know? the ones that say your
autoresponders or ezine archives requested info or subscribed to a
newsletter.) :-)
2) You can manipulate the factors involved and reduce your email by up to
90% or more.
I want to address the second option today.
There are a couple ways we can do this.
1) First thing to do is go to http://www.hotmail.com, http://www.yahoo.com,
or any one of the hundreds of others which will give you a free internet
email account. We are NOT going to send UCE with it or fake headers or
anything like that. We're mainly going to only receive email here.
When submitting FFAs, classifeds, and message boards ALWAYS use this email
address when you fill out the form. If you want to use an autoresponder or
a "reply to" email address with your classified ad or message board post
just list it in your ad or post; not in the registration form.
Let all your classified ad and FFA confirmations come here. You don't even
need to read the email that comes here unless you just want to.
Occasionally you will see one that requires a reply for your link or ad to
be placed but VERY rarely. (Less than one in a thousand is my experience.)
Be sure and use this email address always when filling out the registration
forms for classifieds, links, etc.
"But Leon, I thought I was suppose to have my own domain name?!!! And I
thought that showed credibility?!!!"
You DO need your own domain name and it DOES lend credibility, but you
don't need to use it for registration forms at FFAs and classifieds. Trust
me.
If you are placing a FFA link WHY would they need your email address? Of
course there are some administrative and tracking reasons for this, but
even MORE importantly THEY ARE GONNA SEND YOU EMAIL! Of course the emails
will come as confirmations, but they are really ads. Not that there is
anything wrong with that. I think joining someones mailing list is AT LEAST
a fair trade for free advertising. I just don't want to have to deal with
their email if I'm busy at the time. And if I can keep it out of my
business' email program?..that's even better!
OF COURSE you use your domain names, autoresponders, etc. inside your ads,
on your web pages,etc. :-)
Here are the real advantages of doing this.
-You don't have to take the download time to download this email. It's
there when you get there with Hotmail, etc.
-No space used on your computer.
-No threat of viruses from the email itself. The email is not on your
system.
-If your web host has a maximum daily or monthly transfer rate this email
will NOT count toward it.
You simply pop in once or twice a day and delete all of it.
This leaves your email program open for important business email. You may
still get a little UCE at your main email addresses, but much, MUCH less
than before.
If you try this you'll see a HUGE difference in just a few days.
There is a second way you can do this if you have a fairly sophisticated
web host.
Create a "dump account."
Dump accounts are OK. I have no problem with them.
You use the dump account email address exactly as above.
However I would not recommend a "dump account" if the email still has to be
downloaded from the server with your other email. Or if the "dump account"
was set up inside your email program.
You are still downloading all that email and it is still tieing up YOUR
computer.
Just the time it use to take to download my email was probably an hour or
more a day. This has been a BIG help for me. I hope it helps you.
I looked closely at Hotmail and Yahoo and to the best of my understanding
there is nothing prohibiting this at all. If the rules change at some
point?Do as they say. :-)
Thanks,
Leon Brickey
webmaster@appalachianmarketing.com
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