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- From: timbob@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (paul.t.dunfee)
- Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Re: BillBoards/Advertisement
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.163158.13236@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:31:58 GMT
- References: <JDAVIS.92Dec29083137@dante.nmsu.edu>
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- In article <JDAVIS.92Dec29083137@dante.nmsu.edu> jdavis@nmsu.edu (DAVIS) writes:
- >THe mentioning of internet with NO billboards is lacking.
- > Think of this.. Most machines get logged in to many times a day. Some
- >100+ different college kids log into our main UNIX here at NMSU each
- >school day. This makes me think of the $$ that could be made by
- >selling MOTD advertising. In the message of the day, one could put an
- >advertisement for the people logging in to see. THis would be text,
- >but it doesn't mean that a graphical representation couldn't be
- >placed. This of all the Xterminals in your Cluster/Pod/classroom
- >displaying a large advertisement. As for the MOTD, it would be easy to
- >even add in a coupon where the person wanting to use it would only
- >have to do a screen dump and use. The statistics on how many people
- >see this would be easy. How many logins from different people each
- >day.! THe charge, well, I would guess bout $5 a day for one
- >advertisement on a machine that gets decent trafic. (Its $5 for your
- >pocket complete profit, though you might have to type/scan in an
- >advertisement and gemacs it into the /etc/motd..) one could even
- >charge a company for advertising and append it to their .signature and
- >post.
- >$$$$... Intenet is full of money making opertunities. THough of course
- >there are some out there who don't want to see advertising in the
- >MOTD. I mean everytime you read a .sig there is usually some type of
- >advertising. ex. This opinion if my own and not from XXXX.. As
- >entrepeneurs, we need to break those barriers and get advertising in.
- >I think in the future, the net will be commercial. Think of having a
- >contract with the large university and public machines and giving the
- >university/public machine owners $1 per day, well you could make $5.'
- >What would be the correct amount to charge? (I guess it would depend
- >on what was advertised. Food, coupons and only a few bucks. But on a
- >hightech machine advertising some hightech like thing, $$$$ mucho
- >more!)
- > Just a though for the entrepeneur in us all!
- >Jeff Davis
- >
- >--
- >jdavis@NMSU.EDU Jeffrey B. Davis
- >Just a regular Business Student! Donations? Help pay my way through College!
- >It costs a lot of money to die comfortably. - Samuel Butler 1835 - 1902
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- Chuckle; must be another freshman, heh? 8*)
- - Tim.
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