Re: [pgsql-advocacy] www.postgresql.org

Yeah,

At Troubleshooters.Com, our experience is that hosting ads isn't worth it.
Word is out that ads are so ineffective, that people are unwilling to pay
even a penny per impression.

Perhaps you could have third parties host small (5 paragraph) essays, with a
link to their website. Bandwidth is about the same as a banner ad, but the
essay, if written right, goes a long way to giving the author credibility. At
the bottom of the essay (or maybe at the top) is a link to their commercial
web page. I think that type of advertising might be effective enough to draw
revenue.

All essays should be valuable to the reader whether or not he or she purchases
the product. But of course, you'll learn/get a lot more if you purchase the
product.

Steve

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On Tuesday 07 January 2003 10:00 am, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> I'm in favour of ads if the ads actually generate net benefit to pgsql.
> e.g. If they pay only for clickthroughs it's usually not worth having
> ads[1]. Or the ads use more bandwidth than they pay for.
>
> The new site has broken links to docs:
>
> http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ ->User's Lounge -> Released docs:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/ <- broken.
>
> The new site also has a broken link to User's lounge - it goes to mirrors.
>
> New site needs link to store.pgsql.com
>
> Link.
>
> [1] Not very likely that people will click on "Harmony Cruises" when they
> are very busy looking for Postgresql info. They may remember the name for
> later, but not click through.
>
> At 11:05 AM 1/6/03 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >Personally, I'm in favor of ads if it is needed to offset the cost of
> >hosting,
> >and as long as the advertisers are companies which support Open Source.
> >
> >In fact, I was thinking of buying an ad myself.
> >
> >--
> >-Josh Berkus
> > Aglio Database Solutions
> > San Francisco
> >
> >
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