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Originally posted by The Other Steve@Apr 8 2005, 04:16 PM
It seems that the only acceptable way for any sponsor to announce a program or get people to look at a program is to either fill a board with bullshit - as one smaller program owners keeps doing over at the other place - or offer scads of money in some equally bullshit competition.

For some reason too many webmasters think like whiney little bitches that they are somehow special. Snailmail marketing is a legitimate form for anyone to use and the sooner some people in this industry wake up to it the sooner they'll stop looking like total twats.

Steve... I agree with you in principal.

You have however left out something. I hope that Oprano has grown to a point where its not filled with bullshit no matter its origin.

We have always allowed people to use text links to promote whatever they wanted. And recently we opened up the buttons to everyone that provided a recip link. So you can have a tidy campaign for nothing on here... like Nick said "We don't pay you to post on Oprano....but it pays to post on Oprano."

If you could only see whats going on in ICQ right now...

However... sponsors that pay to advertise here are getting THE BEST value in the industry. When you buy an ad here... all the way down to a text link heres what happens....

1) One of us looks at your B2B offering in detail. What other board even bothers to find out what your pitching? None that I know of. And certainly none at the level of detail that we go thru.

2) We try to ensure that how you present your service to this board will be well recieved. We do a good job of it I think unless your uncooperative or trying to scam. And then you know what happens here then.

3) Your ad goes on Oprano... you get an advert if you choose in the Sexines magazine and you get put in the commercial rotation on Oprano Radio. We plan to add in the ad rotation to Oprano Plus and on the new design of the GBU.

What other resource offers you that much value for your buck?
NONE!

Your lucky if they put your banner in rotation in a timely manner.