Sunday, July 02, 2006

We Need You! Changes are a good thing.

Tons of small changes were made, more things are dynamic instead of cached (surprisingly... it took the exact same amount of time to get results dynamically as from cache). New subcategories have been added, and a new category for GAMES! Yep, time wasting games. Of course we only have one up for now, but more will be added.

We Need You!

If you can read this, your help is wanted. While we're working out the bugs of our idea right now, we're working on a "word of mouth affiliate" program.

How's it work you ask? Well it's simple. You go out in the world and tell others about out site, and give them a piece of paper with the address to your local classifieds, and a "id for special pricing" to guarantee that they can name their price! The "special pricing" id is really just your referral id. Then, a certain percentage of any sales from your referrals will go to you, and you get the knowledge that 25% of 35% of our profits are also being given back to your community.

Or, if you want a diagram:

You give url + id to company -> they give us money (and use your id) -> we give you money + your community

It's simple. Of course since we hate spam more than probably anyone (upwards of a thousand messages a day, every day that we have to actually sort through manually!), we won't allow a simple "url with id" scheme. That'd make people less likely to spam with it.

So don't spam. Spam is bad. Even the canned spam. If you spam your id, we'll can you.

We're also needing people to do something else for us, tell your television stations and newspapers about us! Don't worry, all they have to do is visit our website and download news releases from there. We also have our releases released to the press, but they're more likely to publish what people want and request.

S o that is all for now. And have a good 4th.