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They are definitely still very important. Especially when attending networking events and you are still expected to have them with many large clients. We provide CD business cards but not sure about whether these have real benefits to hand out to everyone. They are good when supplying with an introduction because you can add mush more with web interaction and links to your website. I mention this because you mentioned magnetic ones but surely they still cost more than a standard card and are just a gimmick with no real extra promotional benefits.
We supply much more standard card than CD type naturally.

I have to say I would be surprised if this business model would be very effective.

Some very good points have already been made about trust and the money issues, and for my part, although in principle it seems ok in practice I cannot see it evolving into a workable business arrangement.

You have already encountered problems signing up suppliers, I don't think that will change. Many have already signed up to this kind of service and found it to be a waste of their time. I can tell you now, I'm one of them. Even if it did work, with margins getting tighter, a 10% commission would take away any benefit of having a new customer. Suppliers could't add the commission to their prices to mainytain a decent profit as they would become uncompetitive.

Yeah I've been registered for some time but not really used it much. I had Extreme tracker on my site which is not expensive and gave some great data, trouble is the tracking code on my pages made them look bad for SEO, they appeared as images and you could not apply Alt Text.

Just starting to get into GA now and yes there is a lot to it, there's so many tools I know it will take me time to get to use them with any proficiency. I seem to find something else each time I go in. I am persistinmg with the new version though.

I think the best way is to build your own. Naturally we have emails coming in every day fo quotations, from these you can build a profile of what they are looking for and maybe what else could be attractive, a peep at their website will give you lots more data, as long as they are not gmail addresses or the like. Of course this takes time but at least you know there is somenone there and they are quality based. The thing is these enquiries are for at least one of the products or services you have on offer so they are certainly valid opportunities.

It's bet to categorize these as you want to make sure you target properly and not upset the recipient and lose them from future mailings.

With mailing lists bought from a third party, so many are out of date or totally irrelevent. I have been getting more and more crap spam mail lately and on several occasions made the mistake of unsubscribing which tells the other side that my email is still live, thereby generating further unwanted spam as my email gets added to more and more of these databases.

Yes I use it score changes quite frequently and notified fairly freqently too. Its scored on your influence on social media so you can link up your accounts in Twitter, Facebook etc to give it more meaning.

You're right, I just need to get there.

Hope they last to end of Januray at least, I'm supposed to be going to the Caymans with them then. Wish me luck!!