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Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
I received an unsolicited email saying that "We have been contacted by some of your Stamp Dealers and Stamp Collectors who are very surprised that your upcoming show is not yet listed on one of the best Stamp Show websites on the internet." Blah blah blah, they want me to list our November show for a fee.
I looked at the site. Turns out this is one of the sites I looked at when putting together a list of area shows to put in our club newsletter. It was not helpful at the time and not much info has been added. This is not something I even gave a thought to at the time....it's not expensive ($10-20 per whole year depending on what kind of listing) but it's just one more little expense and those do add up. Small clubs have small budgets...
Has anyone listed your show on Stampshows.com? If so, have you gotten any increase in attendance? How do you know? We asked everyone who came to our show last year how they heard about our show, and 95% said the show postcard we mailed, the APS Journal, or Linn's.
Has anyone ever used this site as a reference to find area shows?
Thanks for any information or opinions,
Sally
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10:52:11am
I have no problem with such sites, nor their practice of sending unsolicited emails in an attempt to "drum up business" (no different from the scads of junk mail from car dealers, grocers, dentists, etc. I receive daily). As long as they follow through with their commitment to provide the services for which they are paid, I see it as a legitimate business.
That being said, I would not spend money from a tight budget for a service usually provided for free by local newspapers and various stamp related sites. If I were going to spend money on such ads, it would be with Linn's or the APS.
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Before plunking down money on a promotion web site like that, I'd go to alexa.com and see how much internet traffic is actually going to the site. Then you can decide if its worth paying to advertise there.
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Thanks Bobby and Michael. Kind of what I thought too. Alexa.com was illuminating - very little info on this site but still interesting just to see what data can be dug up if you know where to look. Sally
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Thanks Michael, for letting me know about Alexa.com. Getting off-topic here, but without much effort, that link led to another new discovery: http://archive.org/web/. Somehow, that site has been archiving billions of web pages over the years. That includes SOR, for which I found this gem from 2001:
Since I have been a member for less than a year, looking through the dozens of old web formats was a historical treat. The "Cycle" or "Round Robin" sounds like it might have been fun, but it probably also relied on everyone cooperating at once! Is that still a thing?
Be careful. Once you get onto that web archive site, you might see the hours passing by... 
And those hours might be better spent sorting stamps. 
-Steve
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You can find my old web site archived there as well! (Sorry, but I seemed to have misplaced the link to it)...
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I was introduced to the "Wayback Machine" several years ago. It is an invaluable research tool. Think of it as the microfiche section of the internet.
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The "wayback machine" can be a lifesaver. I used it to bring up all the 1847USA pages after it had gone dark. I saved everything I wanted as files on my computer so now I can look at them any time I need to.
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Just wondering if anyone has any experience with the website www.stampshow.com
I received an unsolicited email saying that "We have been contacted by some of your Stamp Dealers and Stamp Collectors who are very surprised that your upcoming show is not yet listed on one of the best Stamp Show websites on the internet." Blah blah blah, they want me to list our November show for a fee.
I looked at the site. Turns out this is one of the sites I looked at when putting together a list of area shows to put in our club newsletter. It was not helpful at the time and not much info has been added. This is not something I even gave a thought to at the time....it's not expensive ($10-20 per whole year depending on what kind of listing) but it's just one more little expense and those do add up. Small clubs have small budgets...
Has anyone listed your show on Stampshows.com? If so, have you gotten any increase in attendance? How do you know? We asked everyone who came to our show last year how they heard about our show, and 95% said the show postcard we mailed, the APS Journal, or Linn's.
Has anyone ever used this site as a reference to find area shows?
Thanks for any information or opinions,
Sally
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17 Mar 2015
10:52:11am
re: Stampshow Website
I have no problem with such sites, nor their practice of sending unsolicited emails in an attempt to "drum up business" (no different from the scads of junk mail from car dealers, grocers, dentists, etc. I receive daily). As long as they follow through with their commitment to provide the services for which they are paid, I see it as a legitimate business.
That being said, I would not spend money from a tight budget for a service usually provided for free by local newspapers and various stamp related sites. If I were going to spend money on such ads, it would be with Linn's or the APS.
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11:38:41am
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Before plunking down money on a promotion web site like that, I'd go to alexa.com and see how much internet traffic is actually going to the site. Then you can decide if its worth paying to advertise there.
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Thanks Bobby and Michael. Kind of what I thought too. Alexa.com was illuminating - very little info on this site but still interesting just to see what data can be dug up if you know where to look. Sally
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re: Stampshow Website
Thanks Michael, for letting me know about Alexa.com. Getting off-topic here, but without much effort, that link led to another new discovery: http://archive.org/web/. Somehow, that site has been archiving billions of web pages over the years. That includes SOR, for which I found this gem from 2001:
Since I have been a member for less than a year, looking through the dozens of old web formats was a historical treat. The "Cycle" or "Round Robin" sounds like it might have been fun, but it probably also relied on everyone cooperating at once! Is that still a thing?
Be careful. Once you get onto that web archive site, you might see the hours passing by... And those hours might be better spent sorting stamps.
-Steve
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06:02:05pm
re: Stampshow Website
You can find my old web site archived there as well! (Sorry, but I seemed to have misplaced the link to it)...
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They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin
17 Mar 2015
06:41:16pm
re: Stampshow Website
I was introduced to the "Wayback Machine" several years ago. It is an invaluable research tool. Think of it as the microfiche section of the internet.
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re: Stampshow Website
The "wayback machine" can be a lifesaver. I used it to bring up all the 1847USA pages after it had gone dark. I saved everything I wanted as files on my computer so now I can look at them any time I need to.
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