[Chuck Hamrick]

We have dropped the price of paid announcements to $69.

We have also reduced the price of the upgrades to:

• Stickies: $25
• Highlight: $10
• Twitter: $10

This is a special good until the end of February.

[Jorge - SHOPiMAR]

My suggestion:

The price of paid announcements should be permanent at $10.00 each and then allow only one update to the same announcement related to same content or merchant promo or for an affiliate reply etc.. A merchant or manager may want to do separate announcements perhaps within the same month or not or separate merchants if an OPM, but then if compelled to do so, ABW still earns more $$$ in long run. $69 or $99 still too much for then also saying 30 days, it makes it sound like if I have to pay $99 every 30 days and 30 days is too long in today’s social world. Think of it as what some quality writers/bloggers do now for content and blogs. If the writing and promotion is done properly with no spam and quality content, it will bring affiliates, merchant and traffic back to ABW. There are a few writers charging $10.00 for a quality post that even shows up on facebook and twitter at same time so think about it.

I personally have thought of making a few announcements on ABW in past six months and out of 20 promotions and announcements I have thought about, that could have been $200 in ABW pocket.

Note: Maybe I do not know what I am talking about because iNet has many other successful forums and knows what they are doing so, back to my hiding place, lol

[Chuck Hamrick]

Jorge didn't mean to leave this unanswered as we have been discussing this with iNet. I am going to post a thread in a minute in the Midnight Cafe.