A question, would you rather premote .....

[furrygirl]

Originally Posted by Far-L

How do you all feel about smallish but bordering on medium sized programs that formerly were part of a big program but not anymore and are now still going through some growing pains but have a great brand, exclusive content, and literally invented and continues to innovate the amateur niche?

You've always been one of my best sponsors, and I don't even try hard to promote anyone but me.

[Far-L]

Feeling the love!

Quite frankly, I was expecting a bashing because we have not been with out problems over the last year...

Thanks to all for the kind words!

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Far-L

Quite frankly, I was expecting a bashing because we have not been with out problems over the last year...

Hahahaa... oh yeah, and none of the rest of us around here have had any problems in the last year or so!

Hiya Far-L ... not sure if you recall, but I think we were on an Internext roundtable together back in 2002. As I remember, it was supposed to be on 'niche marketing' but they changed it to 'targeted marketing' at the last minute for some reason.

Anyway, just wanted to say it's nice to see you're back to doing things your way again.

Simon

[Far-L]

Originally Posted by Simon

Hahahaa... oh yeah, and none of the rest of us around here have had any problems in the last year or so!

Hiya Far-L ... not sure if you recall, but I think we were on an Internext roundtable together back in 2002. As I remember, it was supposed to be on 'niche marketing' but they changed it to 'targeted marketing' at the last minute for some reason.

Anyway, just wanted to say it's nice to see you're back to doing things your way again.

Simon

Yes indeed I do remember... you were one of the only people up there that was offering advice rather than laying down a sales pitch.

Thanks for the kind words!

(niche became more of a buzzword after the excitement on "targeted" died down a bit if i remember correctly)

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Far-L

Yes indeed I do remember... you were one of the only people up there that was offering advice rather than laying down a sales pitch.

Well...I may have been one, but you were definitely the other one. I guess we must have thought we were actually there to share some helpful ideas with the people attending.

(niche became more of a buzzword after the excitement on "targeted" died down a bit if i remember correctly)

Yep, we were approached to do the roundtable on 'niche marketing,' but I think it was renamed because they thought more people would know what 'targeted' meant back then.

I think 'niche' became all the rage once everyone realized that "targeted" was just too damn easy to pronouce. Gotta love the new webmasters who either put a hard "i" in it (n-eye-ch) or think you need to hear the "e" (nich-eee).

Simon

P.S. And to keep this on topic, we're a small, single site sponsor program, and we do promote other sponsors on our free feeder sites. I've found we do better promoting small programs, and that usually the retention on revshare is better (as long as they have a good members area).