Are AVS sales a Deadend?

ecchi · 2005-09-25, 07:49 AM

When I read people talking about the death of AVS, I think the problem is that it has not died, it has changed, and many webmasters have not been able to change with it. I cannot understand why this is. Computing is a continually changing occupation, particularly in respect to the Internet. Most of us started on dial up, and are now on broadband, I doubt if there is much similarity between your first computer and your current one, and anyone who has been in the WM business more than a few years will tell you that the way they design sites now is totally different to the way they designed sites when they started. So why does everyone expect AVS to be the same as it was last century? It is still alive, vibrant, and profitable. It is just that it needs a 2005 approach, not a 1998 approach. And what works today will not work in a couple of years time, it will need a 2007 approach then.

guestcam · 2005-09-26, 02:49 AM

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Originally Posted by ecchi

So why does everyone expect AVS to be the same as it was last century? It is still alive, vibrant, and profitable.

alive perhaps. Vibrant? How so ?

I guess I am /was expecting it to be the same as 1999............From what I recall (on some other boards where several AVS were the theme) I believe the desire for traffic from the links was seen as quid pro quo for us making sites promoting the AVS.

I certainly want whats the best use of my one man company's working hours. hence my quest to find out if there were any webmaster friendly AVS's still doing like they were WAY WAY back in 99.....

2005-09-25, 07:49 AM	#1
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	When I read people talking about the death of AVS, I think the problem is that it has not died, it has changed, and many webmasters have not been able to change with it. I cannot understand why this is. Computing is a continually changing occupation, particularly in respect to the Internet. Most of us started on dial up, and are now on broadband, I doubt if there is much similarity between your first computer and your current one, and anyone who has been in the WM business more than a few years will tell you that the way they design sites now is totally different to the way they designed sites when they started. So why does everyone expect AVS to be the same as it was last century? It is still alive, vibrant, and profitable. It is just that it needs a 2005 approach, not a 1998 approach. And what works today will not work in a couple of years time, it will need a 2007 approach then.