Re: Escrow Account Avoids Fraud in Getting Marketing Results

From: Janet Santos <LADYJANE_at_cwbusiness.com>
Date: Sat 02 Sep 2000 13:01:59 -0400

BROOKE SAUNDERS <brookesaunders_at_hotmail.com> WROTE:
> My belief is that it can be used for advertising. For
> example, I have an affiliate site
> www.zoomplus2001.com, and all I need to do is to drive
> traffic there, I don't have to deliver product, etc.,
> it is completely automated.

TO WHICH ALAN FERGUSON <ajf_at_crgalleries.com> REPLIED:
> I'm sure some readers on this list, including myself,
> visited the above site mentioned in this post from
> Brooke. I am also fairly sure that Brooke hoped that
> would happen with this obvious attempt to make money,
> also admitted to in the post. What Brooke didn't say
> was that once you entered the web site California, you
> could never leave, automated indeed.
>
> What bothered me immensely was the trick of making my
> history disappear (yikes!). It is a tactic that I run
> across more frequently every day, and friends and
> colleagues seem to be mentioning this "trick" more in
> our conversations...

Hello,

Ah yes, it is called exit traffic. One sends the user
to another site when they leave another and another and
so on. One time I was sent to 10 different sites.
Little do they know I did not look at any of them. I
just kept closing the windows. In your preferences you
can set it up so your browser does not automatically
open sites, if you wish, though that might be a pain
actually.

We don't do exit traffic on any of our sites. While it
is an easy way to make a little bit of money, it
aggravates the people who visit the sites. It is unfair
to treat them like that but then that is our opinion.
So I would advise you to really think about it before
you set that up because you could actually loose
potential customers. It is like spamming but in a
different way. So call us crazy because we pass up
literally tens of thousans of dollars every month
because we refuse to treat our customers like that.

Another subject I would like to bring up is this...why
are some non-adult sites reluctant to advertise on
adult sites? I represent a very large company who owns
a very well known chat site. Our user demographics are
prime and would be interested in many products yet some
are reluctant. They are loosing potential customers
just because it is labeled "adult". That is kind of
unfair to the people in a way. Give me a card carrying
adult who knows what they want any day!! Just because
one uses an adult site for leisure doesn't mean they
are not potential customers for everyday products. That
puzzles me. Anyway, that is my personal rant for the
day..laughing.

Janet Santos
LJS Marketing, Inc.
LADYJANE_at_cwbusiness.com





Received on Sat Sep 02 2000 - 12:01:59 CDT