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Hello Kim, How are you? I would like to purchase banner space to support my projects. Pleas emai me with a price. Thanks, Jeremiah >From: Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >Subject: Looper's Delight Sells Out! >Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:06:12 -0700 > > >Well, not completely. We didn't get bought out by Microsoft or anything. >:-) > >If you have been to the List Archives at the Looper's Delight site >recently, you've probably seen that I now have ad banners on the top of >the >page. ewwwwww! For example: > >http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200008/ > > >The fact is, Looper's Delight does cost money to operate. As the site >grows >and becomes more and more popular, the operating costs are going up too. >Proceeds from the two Looper's Delight cd's contributed a tiny bit, and >every now and then I get a whopping $4.95 check for being a Sonic Foundry >affiliate. But for the most part it's all paid for by me, and it ain't >getting any cheaper. So I'm going to seriously attempt to get the site >financially self-sufficient. Time for our baby to grow up and support >itself! :-) > >The ads rotating on the site now are more or less a trial run. I've got a >couple of banners for the Looper's Delight CD projects on there, and a few >of those lame affiliate programs I signed up for. The banner rotating >scripts all seem to be functional, so I'm now going to start for real. >(hopefully a few more cd's got sold recently. :-) In general I plan to >only accept ads that are relevant to the LD community. So hopefully it >won't be too horrifying. > > >Now for the good news! > >The community of people here is what makes LD what it is. Without all of >you, the site will be pretty lame. And these ads will be plastered at the >top of all your babbling. :-) > >So! > >I'm going to have a Special Offer for list members! Anybody who has been a >Looper's Delight mailing list subscriber for more than 1 month will get a >ridiculously low, low price on Looper's Delight ad space for your own >personal projects. That's right folks, your ad, splashed in front of the >whole looper universe day in and day out, bringing you fame and fortune at >a tiny fraction of the regular price! Advertise your cd, your band, a >music >book you wrote, your availabilty for gigs, a webcast, a gig, etc.! > >If you want more details, please email me. I'm not going to publish >specifics on the list because I don't want people coming to me years from >now demanding the same deal. :-) > >I think this will be a great way for people in this community publicize >their projects to the people most likely to be interested. And I think, >the >ads we are all most interested in seeing will be the ones from people just >like us! So hopefully this is a good addition to the site. Also, for those >generous folks who would like to help out a little bit, this gives you a >nice, clean way to support LD and it's future. > >And you *can* get a lot of publicity from this. The Looper's Delight >Mailing List Archives section got about 140,000 hits last month, and it >continues to rise! The site has about 50,000 unique user sessions per >month. That's a lot of eyeballs for our crazy little niche in the world! > >Looking forward, I will try to always reserve some percentage of space for >LD members. You're the community that makes this place, you should always >get access. > >Again, remember the requirements for the Special Offer: > >a) you must be a list member, subscribed for more than one month. > >b) the advertisement is for your *own personal project*. This is not a > way for you to get cheap advertising for the company you work for > and get brownie points with the boss! > >If you are interested, email me! > >If you do work for a company that would like to advertise on Looper's >Delight, let me know. I'm going to start selling ads for that too. (and >this is an excellent opportunity for some of you to clear your corporate >consciences and pony up for all the free publicity you get here. :-) > > >Thanks! >kim > >______________________________________________________________________ >Kim Flint | Looper's Delight >kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.