Re: Ideas

From: Gary S. Best <gsb_at_CompuPick.com>
Date: Wed 15 Sep 1999 13:34:02 -0400 (EDT)

SUE LONG WR0TE:
> 1) an affiliate program and
>
> 2) an e-newsletter to start out with.
>
> At first he was very enthused, then his technical consultant
> explained that he would need about $20,000 in software
> upgrading to do those things.

Have you thought about outsourcing? The newsletter could be
handled by Link Exchange's ListBot or Lyris. I believe a
previous post contained sites that handled affiliate
programs.

ListBot charges $100 per year for 5000 messages per month.
Lyris charges $5 per thousand messages with a minimum of
$100/month. My 2000-member mailing list is with ListBot.

Internet Billing Company is handling my Affiliate Program
for free since they act as my credit card merchant. I'm
almost done with a week's worth of ASP programming needed to
set that up on my site (assigning cookies and database
tracking) and it's pretty sophisticated and transparent to
the user. I could have done it the easy (i.e., cheaper) way
in a few days.

Of course if the bulk of that $20G is going towards a SQL
database on a UNIX platform, then you're on your own...

Gary S. Best
gsb_at_CompuPick.com
http://www.CompuPick.com/
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Received on Wed Sep 15 1999 - 12:34:02 CDT