Regarding the idea of get-paid-to-read-spam that was being bandied about: the only problem with that kind of marketing model, assuming that it is based on an opt-in program, is that it attracts people who want something for nothing. The people who chase freebies generally have a completely different mindset from paying customers. So, if I were a business, I would not waste my money paying people to read my ads. I want to find a target market that WANTS to read my advertisement so they can pay ME for my product. That is why text-based ads located in magazines and websites where your target market congregates are the best "bang for the buck". Frankly, the demand for a list of all 280,000 e-gold customers would be a low quality list even if e-gold did rent it out. Only about 40% of those accounts actually have money in them, and even fewer have more than $10 worth. So, if I wanted to build an ad campaign for e-gold customers, I would try to think of what interests them and where to look. Frankly, the e-gold list is at this point the BEST list because it has the most interested and active people in the e-gold market. In the advertising industry they call this a hot list. Another source of a hot list would be to buy lists of paying customers from market makers. (Of course this would only be ethical if the market-maker did this with the full knowledge and permission of his customers.) Just my two cents worth. Ken Griffith www.goldeconomy.com --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
