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Old February 12, 2002, 07:26 PM
Brent "The Winner" Whinfield
 
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Default Re: Free Publicity for "nothing special"

Anya, do a quick search for a good two-tier affliate program which has a product that will appeal to kids. Immediately signup, and then place a short 2-3 paragraph sales letter onto your kid's site.

Take Jim's advice and capture email addresses.

Brent "The Winner" Whinfield

> Hi everybody....

> I haven't posted much here lately but I've
> been lurking and as usual, continually
> inspired by your posts.

> Here's a unique problem for you - my son's
> website, International Cool Kids (link
> below) will be the recipient of tons of free
> publicity tomorrow. As it happens, the
> Vancouver Province Newspaper chooses a list
> of B.C. websites that they like, and posts
> the list with a short description of each
> site, every Wednesday. Well, that's
> tomorrow, and yesterday they emailed me to
> say this site will be featured in the list!

> This same scenario happened for my own
> website, www.seatoskyzine.com last spring,
> and the traffic it generated was amazing,
> and carried on for weeks afterward.

> So my question is, how do I make the best of
> this free publicity? Really, IMHO, this
> little site is nothing really special - it's
> just a simple site with some home-made pages
> with games, jokes, quizzes, etc. with lots
> of links to favorite sites. I do have an
> affiliate "Poster Store" on the
> site, so there is potential to hopefully
> make some $$ from this, but I'm wondering if
> there is more I could do to maximize on
> this.

> Any ideas?