RE: UKNM: Microsoft can do all my marketing for thruppence

[Nick Horley]

Thanks for the fulsome reply Lucy - much appreciated. I'm not intending to

use many of the services on bCentral, and will definitely steer well clear

of the links and banners. ListBuilder and ListBot are the services that have

got my attention. Looks like you don't rate them too badly? We are VERY

serious about our site, but not cash-rich - launching with seed capital only

and trying to get a lot of bangs per buck. ListBuilder/ListBot seems like an

excellent way to handle newsletters which we hope will go viral. (An

alternative tool we've been looking at is NewWorld Commerce - very pricey.)


I'm also interested in ClickTrade Advertiser, but quite prepared to spend a

few hundred quid on one of the alternatives at www.affiliatemarketing.co.uk

if they're much better.


Nick


> -----Original Message-----

>

From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Lucy

> Cokes (*\*)

> Sent: 27 November 2000 17:34

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: RE: UKNM: Microsoft can do all my marketing for thruppence

>

>

> Dear Nick;

>

> Microsoft offers the following services (amongst others!):-

>

> Submit It! Announcement Service   - OK, but very little UK specific or

> industry directories

> Banner Network FREE - plenty of better free networks or better still ones

> where you get paid to show ads on your site!  Can result in really naff

> looking ads being shown on the site.

> Revenue Avenue FREE - lets you earn money from your Web site by

> 1) referring

> merchants, and 2) selling products and services - means putting lots of

> grotty links on your site, not for the professional site.

> ClickTrade Advertiser - lets you create your own affiliate

> program to allow

> others to send paying customers to you.

> AdStore - I wouldn't bother using this, far better selecting sites

> yourself - gives very few options as can only purchase banner adverts on

> certain sites, not worthwhile.

> FastCounter FREE - But you wouldn't want to use this anyway on a

> professional site counters on sites are naff!

> PositionAgent - Gives position in only "top 10 search engines" a

> handy tool

> for a quick reference for those that don't have more advanced

> means of doing

> this.

> Keywords - This enables you to buy keyword listings on GoTo, but

> you can do

> it yourself by visiting goto!

> ListBot - Fine if you don't mind users going off your site to

> sign up, cheap

> solution at just $100 a year, can download the contacts into your own

> database if you like, and also gives you ongoing stats, you can ask people

> any questions you like when they sign up.  Handy if you don't want the

> hassle of running your own mailing list manager, removes bounced and deals

> with removal requests.

> ListBuilder - This goes beyond listbot in that you can send HTML email

> messages and get more in-depth stats for just $19.95 a month.


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