Glenn,
Don't really care which portal page I use. XCIT is set up at home, YHOO is set up at the office. Haven't bothered to change either since my use is minimal.
Of course, my point is a pretty simple one. Of all the internuts I use, who makes money off me?
1) SCH and EGRP. Yes. Probably the most.
2) YHOO, XCIT, other portals. Zero. Or should be zero, as I have never once "clicked through" on an ad. I'm the logical equivalent of the guy who tapes all his TV shows and fast-forwards through the commercials. Really zero impact from an advertising revenue point of view. The fact that I might like the product doesn't mean I'm contributing a single cent to their success.
3) GCTY. Get $45 per month for ISP use and hosting.
4) NSOL. $100 per year for registration, but their monopoly on that will go away soon enough.
5) Various other, mostly non-internut websites. That's where I tend to do most of e-commerce stuff. CMPExpress, Insight, and several specialty retailers who happen to have websites, but aren't "internet stocks" (in many cases, aren't even public), usually don't have "cool pages" just functional.
6) GNET. Again, not a penny. When I joined here it was free.
7) TheStreet.com. Get my subscription money, that's it.
8) WSJ Interactive. Ditto.
9) Trade-a-plane.com. Ditto.
Not much else I can think of.
mg |
