Andyrew

Post Christmas

Well Christmas, like ever, was great! Although, it really does lose it’s excitement and hype when you get older. The day was great, went to see some family, went out for a few drinks, had a huge dinner, went out at night.

I love the entire holidays. I did promise myself though, that i’d get lots of work done over the holidays.. I’ve tried, i really have. After spending the last couple of days being busy with other stuff, (i.e. Trying to get my iTouch working and playing on the games my sister bought me), i have finally got a little bit of work done.

I know allot of people frown upon Proxys (like they do ‘myspace sites’ and image hosters). But, if there’s room on your server and you can afford to throw away some bandwidth and CPU, then there can’t be a problem. Like most of my sites, I got a proxy design designed and coded (http://www.letsgofree.com let me mention) and also like my other sites, I didn’t advertise it.

It’s not that i’m not very good at the whole advertising and marketing thing.. Ok.. well it is.  It’s just that, i’ve never really took a dive into building sites ‘loyal users’ the’right way’. I just enjoyed buying large amounts of traffic, and driving them to a given site of mine. Of course, this works in a way.. but there are other, less expensive ways of doing so. Of course, proxys are just word-of-mouth.. you’re never going to get anywhere out of paying for adwords.

I figured, getting users to sign-up to a subscription would be a great idea. Afterall, the site is so small (maybe 100 visitors a day) that it’s worth experimenting with. If i lose the visitors, so what. I probabally wont try that again. I’ve stuck a newsletter-type system to the site. Only very simple.. the user adds their email, and they are presented with the form…  But.. if i get say.. 40 people to sign upto that list a day? Afterall, it’s not often someone will search for a proxy site, and then decide not to write anything in the box.

I don’t really mind if it falls on it’s face. But, i’m sure other proxy owners will be interested when i mention i can email everyone on the list about new proxys.

I have made it very simple to add this to any site, so.. if you own a proxy and would fancy giving this a try (implementing the system that i’ve added) then i’m sure we can get a whole lot of webmasters to do it (50 users per day, 30 websites, 1 month? = 45,000 email addresses?)

Leave me a comment on the site. I swear I can get you to set it up in about 5 minutes.