p2pnet - rss feed: p2pnet advertising: open for business
p2pnet news | Advertising:- Back in July, 2007, “It’s been three years in the making, but here it is: the new and improved p2pnet,” I posted. “The changes are obvious, the most important being instead of having everything dumped into one archive, articles are now categorized.”
To paraphrase a bit, to keep on keeping on, p2pnet has to expand and to make that happen, obviously there has to be steady income from somewhere. And that somewhere has to be advertising.
I’d rather not, but I have a family as well as a site to support, so it’s necessary —- not that I have anything against advertising per se. It’s been around forever. What I don’t like are tricky, intrusive ads which treat us like we’re idiots, and we’ll have none of that here.
I’m planning on using advertising income to do things such as hire at least one other person to help me. (And two would be even better 
)
The specific story sections will be open to advertisers who want to tell people about what they do, or what they have to offer, in an honest way.
I absolutely, cast-iron, carved-in-rock promise you’ll never see crap ads promoting dodgy ’services,’ or pop-ups, images floating around while you’re trying to read. Stuff like that.
New York’s Ken Baron is an experienced advertising professional who’ll be looking after p2pnet ad sales. Like me, he wants only ads for products and services a p2pnet visitor such as you would care about. So not just anyone will be allowed to advertise on p2pnet.
To do his job, Ken needs information about who reads p2pnet and with that in mind, I’ve put together a really short - like one-minute short - survey. There are no painful questions and the more people who help, the more data Ken will have so he accurately tell people about advertising in p2pnet.
Click here to go to the survey page, on which I say: “No information, other than the responses to the questions, is being gathered. There’s no sneaky data collection going on here. This is to help Ken, who’s going to be dealing with p2pnet advertising, tell possible advertisers about the kind of people who visit the site.”
In the post mentioned at the beginning, “p2pnet is all about people being able to virtually talk to each other without restrictions,” I said. “It was never, and still isn’t, entrepreneurial.”
Freedom of expression, “is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom,” said Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, an American jurist (1870-1938).
That’s the way it still is, and that’s the way it’ll always be.
If you’d like to know more about p2pnet ads, email Ken here: mesita47 @ gmail dot com
Cheers! And thanks. And all the best …
Jon Newton 
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March 1st, 2008 at 11:28 pm
When I check mark Male it unchecks how often I come here.
Also can only check one section of the sections I visit. I pretty much read everything.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:04 am
FileSharingTalk.com uses a rotating slate of ad banners from several leading Usenet service providers like Giganews and Newshosting that pay commissions for every signup through their site. The site also offers special rates and exclusive deals from time to time.
Usenet subscriptions are a legitimate commercial service used by many of the more-advanced P2P’ers and should not be confused with all those P2P scam websites that prey on the naive.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 am
Here’s a dilemma: I have been browsing the net since it was born (almost) and have never, to my knowledge, been in the slightest affected by an ad served to me. So should I feel guilty using techniques to block ads? (Initially, I didn’t bother, but “flash” ads were so damn annoying that I just HAD to do something… at least after Macromedia took away the “stop animation” function.) Also, I wish you could set up a cookie that said “I’m married, so I don’t need LavaLife, I really truly don’t want any kind of VOIP so stop telling me about Vonage, and I didn’t go to school in that big country down south, so Classmates dot com is of no use to me.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Lawl at Andy.
The survey was kind of broken for me question wise. Get rid of the javascript pop-up thanking you. Include Unemployed on the Working/Schooling area (though I fit in student), and the questions generally presumed you worked…