(edited by: Brett_Tabke)
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(edited by: IanTurner at 8:36 pm (utc) on May 6, 2002)
www.philipkelly.net/asktheinter.net.asp
"The asktheinter.net service is proving extremely popular, and has grown considerably in usage over the past 6 months; to such an extent that we are expecting to pass the 1,000,000 visitor mark in September 2001!"
If you can't make money from over 1,000,000 visitors per month then I think you should be looking for alternative employment!!
Or is it just that you exagerrated slightly??!!
Sorry to get cutting on this board, but it's comments like this that kill small business' views of internet advertising.
They advertise with you, don't get any results and assume it doesn't work - w/o realising it may be that the traffic figures were downright lies in the first place!
(edited by: engine at 9:26 am (utc) on May 7, 2002)
Firstly, nowhere does it say that 1,000,000 a month - it says 1,000,000 hits would be passed in September.
Secondly, that figure is absolutely incorrect anyway - it's probably passed half that by now but not a million. Even so, 500,000 for a small directory that undertakes no marketing is pretty good, I think.
Thirdly, the asktheinter.net directory undergoes no maintenance other than adding sites. We no longer sell the service, although the prices pages are still there. The site receives a few submissions per week, for which we do not charge if they do eventually get included.
The site is just staying where it is and ticking over - we have no intention of developing a revenue stream from it - we gave that up a couple of years ago, but decided to keep the site going anyway.
So, yes, you can be cutting all you want; the page on my site has made a mistake, and hey, that was my fault, but if you'd also read the site, you'd see that everything is provided free gratis and for nothing, unless people wanted to pay for a certain type of advertising - I don't think there's anything underhand in that.
(edited by: philrkelly at 9:46 am (utc) on May 7, 2002)
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