Looper's Delight Sells Out!

[Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>]

Well, not completely. We didn't get bought out by Microsoft or anything. 
:-)

If you have been to the List Archives at the Looper's Delight site
recently, you've probably seen that I now have ad banners on the top of the
page. ewwwwww! For example:

http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200008/


The fact is, Looper's Delight does cost money to operate. As the site grows
and becomes more and more popular, the operating costs are going up too.
Proceeds from the two Looper's Delight cd's contributed a tiny bit, and
every now and then I get a whopping $4.95 check for being a Sonic Foundry
affiliate. But for the most part it's all paid for by me, and it ain't
getting any cheaper. So I'm going to seriously attempt to get the site
financially self-sufficient. Time for our baby to grow up and support
itself! :-)

The ads rotating on the site now are more or less a trial run. I've got a
couple of banners for the Looper's Delight CD projects on there, and a few
of those lame affiliate programs I signed up for. The banner rotating
scripts all seem to be functional, so I'm now going to start for real.
(hopefully a few more cd's got sold recently. :-)  In general I plan to
only accept ads that are relevant to the LD community. So hopefully it
won't be too horrifying.


Now for the good news!

The community of people here is what makes LD what it is. Without all of
you, the site will be pretty lame. And these ads will be plastered at the
top of all your babbling. :-)

So!

I'm going to have a Special Offer for list members! Anybody who has been a
Looper's Delight mailing list subscriber for more than 1 month will get a
ridiculously low, low price on Looper's Delight ad space for your own
personal projects. That's right folks, your ad, splashed in front of the
whole looper universe day in and day out, bringing you fame and fortune at
a tiny fraction of the regular price! Advertise your cd, your band, a music
book you wrote, your availabilty for gigs, a webcast, a gig, etc.!

If you want more details, please email me. I'm not going to publish
specifics on the list because I don't want people coming to me years from
now demanding the same deal. :-)

I think this will be a great way for people in this community publicize
their projects to the people most likely to be interested. And I think, the
ads we are all most interested in seeing will be the ones from people just
like us! So hopefully this is a good addition to the site. Also, for those
generous folks who would like to help out a little bit, this gives you a
nice, clean way to support LD and it's future.

And you *can* get a lot of publicity from this. The Looper's Delight
Mailing List Archives section got about 140,000 hits last month, and it
continues to rise! The site has about 50,000 unique user sessions per
month. That's a lot of eyeballs for our crazy little niche in the world!

Looking forward, I will try to always reserve some percentage of space for
LD members. You're the community that makes this place, you should always
get access.

Again, remember the requirements for the Special Offer:

a) you must be a list member, subscribed for more than one month.

b) the advertisement is for your *own personal project*. This is not a
    way for you to get cheap advertising for the company you work for
    and get brownie points with the boss!

If you are interested, email me!

If you do work for a company that would like to advertise on Looper's
Delight, let me know. I'm going to start selling ads for that too. (and
this is an excellent opportunity for some of you to clear your corporate
consciences and pony up for all the free publicity you get here. :-)


Thanks!
kim

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Kim Flint                     | Looper's Delight
kflint@loopers-delight.com    | http://www.loopers-delight.com