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Outright begging people for donations is not my style, but without you members in blue there is NO way I could pay the overhead here, so LW would be gone. The only way LW is going to be able to keep up with expenses as it grows is by selling advertising. I checked out Google Ads first. They were delighted to offer me $2/1000 impressions (impressions are the times an ad shows) but I hesitated. We are a "family friendly" site. Google would have complete control of what links are placed on the site, and "leather"...well, you folks know what that can bring up in a search engine. Kate (the other admin) to the rescue! She built an adserver that we host on sister site and we can control it to do whatever the customer (advertiser) wants. I danced around in joy- we could reward our loyal members who have businesses by selling them inexpensive effective advertising to a target market! There could be enough money to fund the upgrades and other site features we want to ad! No more begging members for donations! Yay! But...

I NEED YOUR HELP!

Please ask the vendors and suppliers and people you know "in the business" to support LW. Drop them a note, call them on the phone. Let them know that they will get more sales and recognition from being up top than in any of the other "traditional" forms of advertising. Tell them you read the magazines once or twice a month, but you look at the forum every day or two. Tell them we can show their ad to 100,000 "unique visitors" a month- almost two million clicks a month are made on this site. That's a lot of leather land traffic! We can tell the adserver to email the boss a summary of ad activity every day or week to keep them informed as to how their online advertising is working. When someone clicks on their ad, it goes straight to the link the advertiser specifies. It's a direct door into an advertiser's store or website!

Click here for more information about advertising on this site!

Thanks!

Johanna

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1. No, no one is "getting rich" from advertising revenue on LW. If you folks saw the bills, and the upgrades we have planned, you would understand why the tin cup begging isn't going to cut it any more.

2. No, we don't care what other sites are doing. We wish them good luck. LW can deliver specialized advertising to a target market.

3. Yes, you can effectively advertise here even if your company doesn't have an art department. We have a couple of graphics whizzes on standby that will be glad to do your banners for you.

4. If you have questions we haven't answered, please PM, email or call. We will be glad to send you our stat reports. Yes, this site really does get an incredible amount of traffic.

Thanks!

Johanna

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If you like this site, and you want us to keep improving it, please let your favorite vendors know that you want them to support it with advertising. Let them know you visit LW regularly! We are just about out of money again, and we need your help.

Thank you,

Johanna

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LW is running a special to encourage you to sign up to jumpstart your

sales, and reach thousands of customers a month! We will make your first

ad banner for FREE (a $50 value!) and if you call or email me to make

arrangements for your ad campaign before August 15th, we'll make you a second

FREE banner. We have the traffic and the expertise to make a successful

campaign for your business, and we will help you every step of the way.

Details of our ad campaigns are here.

If anyone wants year-to-date stat reports of the site, let me know.

All ad campaigns come with daily or weekly reports so that you can monitor your

investment. Yes, I know I'm pushing this, but it's a great opportunity for

you folks to get effective advertising, and we want to upgrade LW, which will increase our viewer volume even more and help your ad campaigns be even more successful! Please call me with questions or anything on your mind.

Best regards,

Johanna

(419) 753-2612

(419) 953-1386 (Verizon cell)

admin@leatherworker.net

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