<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Effel</b> <<a href="mailto:sean@crushyou.net">sean@crushyou.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On 5/27/07 2:10 AM, <a href="mailto:bill@funnymonkey.com">bill@funnymonkey.com</a> hollered:<br><br>> We've been told by salespeople that we could bring in many millions of<br>> dollars by adding text ads but our users aren't asking us for text ads
<br>> so we don't have them. Paid search can create a conflict of interest<br>> with site search. The better your site search is, the less need there is<br>> for paid search."<br>><br>> I think there are some parallels between Craigslist and
d.o --<br><br><br>I agree. I just happened to have watched "24 Hours on Craigslist" last<br>night and heard them explain how they decided charge for posting certain<br>content. They asked the community at large what they felt was an
<br>appropriate way to monetize the CL site, took the feedback and ran with it.<br>I think the most important point they made was that many of the CL users<br>felt the paid ads were to be separated in better categories from the free
<br>content, creatinga segmented community.<br><br>I'm behind this idea. But I think this discussion should be larger than the<br>consultant listserv. </blockquote><div><br>I have posted to the <a href="http://Drupal.org">
Drupal.org</a> front page, and the Drupal association page. I think that's enough to coverage to get the attention of the community. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If I were in charge would post this to the front page<br>to be sure the widest slice of d.o users get the opportunity to weigh in. I<br>imagine that we on this list have a particular perspective.<br><br>Great movie by the way, the special features were actually more revealing
<br>about the CL organization, the movie itself was about the user base and<br>their shananigans. Rent it!<br><br>- -<br>Sean Effel<br><a href="http://www.drupaltherapy.com">http://www.drupaltherapy.com</a><br><br>_______________________________________________
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