----- Original Message ----- From: "Scarr's PDA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:27 PM Subject: Re: Referral List madness
> On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 04:16 Canada/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After following the hundreds of e-mails on this subject, I get the > > feeling > > that there is an assumption that the referral list is a really great > > thing, and by being on it opens some floodgates of customers flocking > > to > > your site. Well, I hate to break the bubble, but in the real world, > > that > > just isn't the case. The referral list just isn't all its cracked up > > to > > be, or at least assumed to be by the ones "not on the list". > > I say trash the referral list concept. It's useless. Instead provide > > some type of "seal" for the reseller's who want or for some reason need > > third party confirmation that they really are a tucows reseller... > > Bill, thank you! I can't believe people are treating this as a make > or break issue. > > Think of the implications of every reseller being on that list, and it > suddenly becomes much less attractive to participate on it (I don't > want to be listed beside "Joe-Bob's Domain Speculators Inc"). And I'm > sure traffic generated from referrals on this list are non-trivial, but > I'm also positive it's not as fruitful as people seem to think it is. > It's a snark hunt. > > Furthermore I don't think it's fair that anyone demands that Tucows > pour all these resources into developing a system that will send > resellers probably less than 100 page-views a month. I just checked our logs. 2 visits from this source last month. I had completely forgotten about it, but having sen the stats I really dont think its worth anyone getting overheated about. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------
