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Pastimes : The Death of Silicon Investor -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (616)	4/20/2002 12:05:51 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1003

Next 10 [a] popular reason [to] subscribe [versus free] (Bob) Zumbrunnen, Since you/iHub grandfathered me, i only know iHub from that view and clueless on how your free version of iHub looks. Next time i recycle my Windows i'll visit iHub and check out that version. Your free version's revenue of "penny per thousand ad-viewing hits." is really lower by a factor of 100 to what i would have guessed, meaning that it's like that man i knew, when i dated his daughter in highschool, who ran a gas station and told me the revenue selling gasoline was small comparied to the garage shop fixing cars, and that other girlfriend's father who ran a bar and said that those steamed clams and other side food dishes revenue was small comparied to what the beer and hard liqueur brought in. So it seems that you may have to run a garage and/or bar on the side to make money :o) Now heres an off the wall suggestion of the types i'am famous for. Sometimes on free web sites i will get that advertisemint directly as we all experience upfront or pop-up or pop-under(? what is this i do not know but probabily experienced it), but sometimes i will enter a free web site and get no advertisemint, but there will be a note/message in a small box saying that this web site exist only if enough cash is received from advertisemint generated revenue from them(your) eye-balls by "please" click here to see advertisemint. And yes i do click, not everytime, but hopefully enough times like one in two or five times i visit the web site. Now might you also include some of these "boxes" of "Please click here." on IHub just incase they actually generate enough pennies to help you. Also, along this same line of thoughts/hope with making them advertisemints eye-ball'ing hits taking the user voluntary route, inform free users that for every time they eye-ball into one of these "Please click here." that they will get a View Next 10 usage, and if you do control the code enough such that you can assign a variable to each user and have counters, then you could even present that "Please click here." after each View Next 10 is done. Now with that "penny per thousand ad-viewing hits." revenue this strategy would not be to obtain revenue from eye-balls, but to introduce free users to the Next 10 view option available to paying members, and hopefully draw them over to the paying side which i think i/you mentioned is like the money side of the garage/bar :o) d:oug