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However to be fair to Mattinblack, his point about viral marketing is a good one. When I started my paysite, years and years ago, I had no affiliate program, and found the best way to advertise it was to print a "Picture courtesy of" message on a whole pile of my own content (i.e. stuff I commissioned and owned copyright on), then make up free sites with a copyright notice saying "You may download these pictures and use them on your own site, post them on newsgroups etc, provided they are not altered in any way". I have no idea how well this worked though, because at the time I was new in the business and my paysite was shit, and the tour loaded so slowly that I was lucky to get the few members that I did get. No way of telling how many people visited the site from those pictures and would have joined if they had not realised in seconds that it was a waste of money.
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