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Sometimes it just takes a little money (or the hint of it) to grease the wheels
and get a project out of "in planning" to completion. I guess in the "full-time" workworld, it's the
promise of a paycheck. In my weird hybrid world, it's often something else.
I'd been meaning to build my own text ad system for quite a while. I started to run the Google Ads back
in January 2004 but it was only a placeholder. A chance to make some money in the meantime.
Well, it did make me some money. I'm obviously not rich from it, but it helped me to pay some of the hard
costs associated with running the site (hosting, domain names, etc.). But it was never gonna get me
far as I was only getting a small cut and I had no control over what ads would show up.
So, with the interest of a paying advertiser, I went ahead and pushed that project from the back burner
to the forefront and today I launched it. Tweaked the overall design of the site and added the new
text ads.
There will obviously be tweaks still to make, but it's up. Go ahead, buy a text ad for your firm, product or
service. Prices start at $5 a month. And where else can you have your text ad on more than 23,400 pages
(Firm List pages in the Google Index) for just $150 month?
If you read this, send me an email and ask for a special coupon off
your first purchase. It'll be even cheaper!
