NONE: Re: other than Year 2000
Re: other than Year 2000
Bruno Bloch (bbloch_at_sprynet.com)
Fri, 21 Jun 96 11:22:06 +0200
>No one responded to my challenge of a few days ago to identify web sites
>other than Year 2000 for which the advertising revenue is greater than the
>true costs of content development, web site operation, and web site
>marketing. Does this mean Year 2000 is the only one? I find that hard to
>believe... I knew us Tenagrans were true Internet pioneers, but suspect
>there are probably other success stories out there waiting to be told.
To be honest, no we are not making any money from our web site yet. We
did not build it to actually make direct money by placing ads on it,
however we have add that possibility lately onto our mailing list
subscription pages.
The prime goal of our web pages <http://www.mission-a.com> is to make
people aware of our consulting services targeted at companies running
trading rooms dealing in the various financial markets such as the large
banks (BoA, Citi, CMB, NationsBank), brokers, funds or oil companies etc.
To further gain experience in the new media we added some mailing lists
as well, but do not use VRLM or RealAudio sound yet to avoid people
having to suffer from long downloads.
However we have not attracted a lot of feedback yet caused by our web
pages. Most companies responded replying to a direct fax we sent them and
of course receiving our direct phone calls. Therefore we are still doing
our business the good old way.
We have asked many people working at our target audience how they would
make use of the web. Well many responded still not to have access to the
web from their office location or at least they did not know how to use
it.
Of those who do use a web browser and have access to the www, most people
surf the web for news, travel, hard- and software stores and
entertainment.
Summarized I would say it will take a few more months or even more until
our site will generate a valuble contribution to our business until then
we will continue to do it the good old way by calling people and
providing our excellent services.
Best regards
Bruno Bloch
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