>You sound as if you have made up your mind that any answer anyone provides
>will be *wrong*. I understand that you want to put a banner on the spend
>page, but banners don't work. They are rarely loaded by the time the human
>is ready to move to the next page, and people are conditioned to ignore
>them. A banner takes up to much space and may be annoying to a lot more
>people than want them there. I may be prepared to concede a single line of
><small>plain text</small>! This would be more effective and may be seen by
>the user as informative (if not too repetitive) instead of an imposition.
It's a simple observation that banner ads do work (quite well) on
every other web site in the world, I see no reason they wouldn't work
on e-gold.com
><!-- That was how to reach e-gold users. B to C -->
>
>Out of the many thousands of people who have e-gold accounts, it should be
>safe to presume that most of them wish to accept e-gold in payment for their
>personal services or goods. Most people are involved in one type of business
>or other, hence it is misleading for you to maintain that there are "zero"
>businesses accepting e-gold. This, you seem to get around by claiming small
>businesses are not real businesses.
>
><!-- Here is how consumers can reach businesses -->
>Anyone looking for anything and wishing to use e-gold to pay for it simply
>can add "e*gold" to a search on www.google.com (or www.ao.com.au for that
>matter) and it will filter out any search results not also including words
>beginning with 'e' and ending with 'gold'. I have not suggested putting
>'e-gold' in there in case it filters out gold, as '-gold' would do.
>
>So, where's my 50kg of gold? ... You may use my 2cw link if you like! ;&)
>
>Ian Green
>http://two-cents-worth.com/?107242
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, 18 June 2001 10:18 PM
>> To: e-gold Discussion
>> Subject: [e-gold-list] ads on spend page
>>
>>
>> >> It's worth remember the "straight talk" aspect here - until e-gold
>> >> sells banner ads on the spend page, e-gold is a joke. ...
>> >
><SNIP>
>> There should be one normal banner ad on the spend page, IMHO.
><SNIP>
>> It's this very simple: no serious businesses will bother with e-gold
>> until it is possible to reach e-gold users.
>>
>> If anyone knows how to reach e-gold users, simply state it here:
>>
>> 50 kilogram gold reward to anyone who can state how to reach e-gold users.
>>
>> State it.
>>
>>
>>
>> There is no way - hence, there are no e-gold businesses. It's
>> not complex.
><SNIP>
>
>
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