End Of The Year Celebration

[Dean Los Angeles]

I've spent a good part of the year enjoying everything that goes on in the land racing world because landracing.com is here to bring it to us.

I just donated $50 and you should too. Pick a number you can afford, more is better.

Do it now.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

And I just wrote a "thank you" to Dean for his donation.  A point I mentioned in it - and that I've made time and again here -- is that I try to keep the commercial advertising to a minimun so you'll get all racing, all the time (well, and jokes, too) and not flashing banner ads and so on.  Some things may have to have a bit of advertising as they develop - - things like the audio streaming that we've got going.  It'll take a person full time to keep it up and running right, so I've got to be able to pay him, get the equipment (most of it already donated, thank you), and pay for the streaming "airtime".  When you hear an ad during streaming -- take it in stride and maybe even thank the advertiser.

Speaking of revenue raisers for this site, I recently turned down an offer from one company.  They wanted to imbed a sort of "shopping" service into the site, so when you click on something -- say, on "fuel pumps" and then buy one from a site you end up going to -- the site would get a buck or ten or something.  I decided that I didn't want the responsibility of having some of you be surprised when you end up (maybe) at a site where you didn't think you'd go, didn't want you to find out that I'd "secretly" added the feature to the site, etc.  I could have posed the question here -- should I or shouldn't I -- but I think/hope I guessed right.  The company is VIGLINK.  Go visit their website if you'd like to see what they've got to do.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

www.weldonracing.com

Comments?  They're considering asking to advertise here - and I want to know if you folks have heard of them/used their product/know of other racers that have used their stuff.  They're being very courteous in requesting information (vs. the blunderbuss style used by a bunch of other firms) and will decide if they want to be on lr.com - while we decide if we feel their product is close to our line of activities to warrant having them on the site.  

I'm told they produce and supply pumps for some LSR applications already.  Have you some additional information?

Let me know your thoughts, please.

[Stan Back]

Jon --

You might try this old tried-and-true advertising adage --

"We don't take any advertising we can't get."

Stan

[Peter Jack]

Jon:

It sounds like their approach is right. My thought would be to try them while they try the website for the normal fee. If it works for them and it works for you then you've got another steady source of income and that's always a good thing.

Pete

[John Noonan]

Jon,

They make parts we use and they want to support the site...make it happen..

J

[Captthundarr]

Parts and sevice looks like something I might would spend green on