On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Steve Barr wrote: > Register with as many free and appropriate guides/search engines/web > rings as you can. > Put up as much good content as you can to get search hits. This is part of the problem that nobody's really addressed... all of the site's content is user-generated. I don't want to have to carry content unrelated to the core business to attract users. Ideally, what I need is to jumpstart the user-generated content to make sure there *is* content when the first user shows up. I'll start this by stealing the event schedules for the (few) local game stores and posting those. I'll actively solicit content from the gamers and game stores that I know. Hopefully that'll be enough to get things jumpstarted. > Net advertising prices have dropped due to low click-through rates; > you might find it worthwhile to do a few banner ads. For example: > http://www.wichitalinks.com/advertise.html I hadn't considered ads on local sites... I hadn't expected rates to be as low as $40/1000 impressions. But do remember that this is a non-profit, no-income site. Anything I spend on advertising is coming out of my pocket, which limits my advertising options. (While we may have banner ads, I don't expect them to generate much revenue and at best it will only offset part of our operating costs.) > Get an easy to spell/remember domain name. Put it on a magnetic > sign on your vehicle. This is a problem... I haven't decided if I'm ready to shell out money for Yet Another Domain Name. (I've got three and yearly renewal time is getting to be as bad as car tags.) I've been planning to use a hostname off of the Phoenyx like I have with several of my other sites... ictgamer.phoenyx.net. Unfortunately, we're stuck with a misspelled word thanks to a 13-year-old legacy. (ICT is our airport code and familiar to the locals.) -- Carl D Cravens (raven@phoenyx.net) GMAST List Owner * The Idea Factory: Helping GM's Create -- http://www.rpg.net/ Where am I . . . and why am I in this handbasket? ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
