Re: Advertising (Hopefully List Appropriate)

Advertising is a way of life for the Internet community. I do banner
advertising but do not and will not do it on a click through ratio. I charge
lower than competing sites for the same advertisers, and they come to me.  I
am not going to compete with the cost of a bigger soite than mine, and feel
the lower prices are appropriate for a younger, just starting out site. I
charge a flat fee, as I do not like click thru pricing.  It is not fair for
me to carry the extra bandwidth for cheap. Bear in mind, all the banners
take up disk space and bandwidth, and if they will let you design the
banner, it is even better as you can make the ad more cost efficient for
you.
Lisa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Blue Tapp" <blue(at)bluesarthouse.com>
To: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:53 PM
Subject: RE: Advertising (Hopefully List Appropriate)


> All right I HAVE to say something to this even though I know I will be
flamed.
>
> There is nothing unethical about offering a quality service for a fair
price.  Just because someone has previously used the services of a
particular web site developer does not mean that they should be for some
reason sheltered from the marketing of all other web site developers forever
and ever amen.  If someone buys one brand of detergent should they then turn
off the television every time a competitor's commercial comes on?  It is NOT
unethical for Coca Cola to try to get a Pepsi drinker to sample their
products.  What would be unethical is if I filled up a Coca Cola can with
colored water and sold that as Coca Cola or if I spread lies that Pepsi's
product contained contaminants.  Calling a potential client to offer your
services is NOT unethical.  If that potential client is interested in being
educated about the legitimate truthful problems with their current product,
it is NOT unethical to tell them.  That's capitalism.  That is strategic
marketing.  That is smart busine!
> !
> ss.
>
> Blue
>
>
> Blue Tapp
> Blue's ArtHouse Graphics & Web Design
> 705 North Florissant Road
> Ferguson, MO 63135
> (314) 839-0634
> fax: (314) 839-1557
> e-mail: blue(at)bluesarthouse.com
> alt. e-mail: bluesarthouse(at)mail.com
> url: www.bluesarthouse.com
>
> "Time to get a web site!"
>
>
>
>
> At 12:08 PM 8/8/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >There's always people doing unethical things.  For instance, there's been
a
> >story in a magazine here lately about people that take care of funerals
who
> >pay sometimes over 500$ to be able to take a corpse with them from
> >hospitals, nuns,...  They even have informants to find people who're
dying,
> >then as soons as he's dead they step in contacting the family to take
care
> >of the funeral.
> >
> >So compared to Nathan's way of looking for potential customers...
>

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