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from Christa toole (ctoole@bn.com)
Subj: RE: Poem.org: statistics do not gell Date: 6/26/98 9:07:27 AM Central Daylight Time From: ctoole@bn.com (Christa Toole) To: DaveLucian@aol.com ('DaveLucian@aol.com')

Hi,

Thank you for your email regarding your links. I have responded in your email below.

Please feel free to email me at ctoole@bn.com if you have any questions or comments or if you would like suggestions to help you increase your sales. Check out our new software superstore and our redesign. Best of luck with your bookstore!

Sincerely, Christa Toole =================================================================== Christa Toole | Account Executive, Affiliate Network barnesandnoble.com | (e) ctoole@bn.com http://www.barnesandnoble.com | AOL Keyword: barnesandnoble ===============================================================

-----Original Message----- From: DaveLucian@aol.com [SMTP:DaveLucian@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 1998 5:48 PM To: Christa Toole Subject: Re: Poem.org: statistics do not gell

Christa,

1.) I did use the tag generator. Maybe it worked improperly, I will redo it. Your poetry link is linking to an area we do not have on the tag generator, that is why I said that.

2.) Does a customer have to buy from a direct link? what I mean is; if they browse thru your site after clicking thru my banner do I get credit for the sale. The link will track them wherever they go on our site however. You will get commission on everything they buy even if they surf around for a while.

This is the Main problem I, and many other webmasters have noticed, with amazon.com for example. you have over 30 different things to link to and searches after linking thru my banner if I only get credit from direct linking there is NO incentive for me. (reference http://greenspun.com on amazon.com ) I raise this point because you suggest direct linking of certain books.

I just thought this would add some interest and value to your readers and give them more incentive to buy.

My website is hard enough to keep up with besides doing your advertising for you and using more of my webspace for your product without prior compensation. I also realize that if I am feeling disheartened others are too. Especially those personal sites that have few hits. You would be surprised how many people ask me if I've made a dime from your site yet. These same people laughed and said I would never make one red cent, but I am not going to give up just yet. I did think that it was rather unusual that you had had no sales with so many clickthroughs. Then I realized that you were linking to an untracked area which explained it. I do believe that you will be able to generate some sales with properly tracked links. Also, a little more integration and more traffic would help increase sales as well. We have had quite a few very successful sites.

I will continue to use your banner on my site I will try to fix the tag generated link problem that you say might be at fault and I will continue to post all correspondence to my Lusenet poetry forum for other webmasters to read.

Sincerely, David Doherty webmaster@poem.org

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