Janet — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:11:01 +0000

Thanks for the response, I am always open to opinions. You are correct in that it would be hard to compete with publications that offer online photos to their advertisers, however, there are close to a million daily newspapers. Plus, hundreds of thousands of non-daily newspapers, magazines, pennysavers, etc. This is just in the U.S. alone and not including worldwide publications. Of that number a vast majority of these newspapers do not offer photos to their classified advertisers at all. They are smaller publications, but there are lots of them. They are the papers I am targetting not the larger publications that offer photos already and I am contacting them directly regarding our service.

As far as display ads go, I am working on that angle as well. I just began marketing to companies that offer statewide classified ad and display ad newspaper insertion and one company is already interested in discussing further how our services can benefit each other.

I am definately exploring many avenues as not to limit myself. Thanks again for the input, it is always appreciated. It gives me something to think about.

Opinion

Fizzypopp — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:25:25 +0000

Perhaps not wanted but I cannot see how this will compete with the services of the Publications that offer the actual insertion. What I would be more interested in is if I was posting/placing a larger advert in a Newspaper and did not want their crap library shots. Move outside of the cheapo classifieds and more into display adverts.

Janet — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:59:40 +0000

I made a few more changes to the homepage based on some suggestions here. If anyone is interested in taking another look. thanks again!

Busy — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:20:06 +0000

You could just add something like "usable from anywhere in the world" or "for world wide service" in your main text.
You could also put a mention in the "why use our services" page

If you want to go a step further, on all prices on your site you could do something like $1.99, this will create a dotted underline on the price and when the mouse held on it will display what the title says.

the word 'free' in this sentence: Our photo hosting service is FREE to try ... needs to be another colour, keep the blue to links only.

Janet — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:29:02 +0000

determined, can you be more specific regarding the fonts? In your opinion which area in particular does not look good? Most of the homepage is verdana font with the exception of the two images. Is that what you are referring to? I don't want my site to look unattractive.

busy, I removed the underlines as you suggested. I also added a worldwide line item on the faq page. I want to incorporate the international thing on the homepage as well, but not sure how/where to include it. Any ideas? thanks!

Busy — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:06:39 +0000

say you had something like funniest of the week, if you were quiet (low amount of ads) you'd have to try pick something to fit into that category, if you repeat the previous weeks the content looks stale, if you pick a random one your comps can look rigged or fake so becomes a chore if there is nothing suitable. Maybe just start with eye catching or something then add others as you get a consant flow of different types. Monthly would be better as would make people list longer and/or list more

determined — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:42:25 +0000

I find the many different fonts to be distractive and unattractive -- although I'm sure it is to draw attention to different areas of importance. I do like the changing pictures which point out the varying items for sale and I thought it was easy to navigate through.

Janet — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:58:05 +0000

Thanks for the ideas busy!

Busy wrote: would become a chore for you if quiet

What do you mean by this?

Busy — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:56:59 +0000

How about ad of the week, typo of the month, sale of the month, funniest, craziest ... or weekly but would become a chore for you if quiet

Janet — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:23:34 +0000

darkstar_tfd wrote: The maybe you could make it more active ...

What kinds of things would you suggest? I was thinking maybe a daily poll, highlight a photo of the month, what's new section, statisitcs blurb (pictures hosted to date), etc.

Which, if any, of these things do you guys think would be best? Or, I will take other ideas as well. Good tip, I agree it is important to show that "things are happening" on the site and I have been thinking about things to do. With so many "dead sites" on the Internet, it is always good to show visitors that the site is active.