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Dear ExplorOz Reader,
With the many new improvements and features available to our three levels of
site users - Visitors, Members and Customers, we are experiencing quite
astonishing statistics on our webserver.
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Left Margin - Site and Page Usage Statistics |
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The box titled Current Users tallies the
number of live users across the different user profiles - Visitors
(that's people who have validated their email address with our
system), Members, Customers (that's advertisers) and Anon(ymous) -
people using the site without an interactive profile (are not
validated). From our analysis the total number of site users is
frequently running at 300 people at any given moment, which equates
to about 4000 users per day.
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Further down the margin is another box that is
totally new - this shows actual Page Statistics for whatever page
you are viewing. Very useful for comparing and analysing the most
popular parts of the site and provided to the public/potential
advertisers to view the actual page stats. |
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What do these statistics mean?
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These statistics show how much traffic we get on
ExplorOz. In fact, we transfer 9gB of data per week. This data has a
very real cost. |
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Show your support of this service to the Australian 4WD
and Tourism Industries |
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If more Visitors and Anonymous site users were to pay for Membership and
more businesses were to use the medium for Advertising then our costs
could be recovered. However, this isn't happening at a viable level.
Basically, everyone wants something for nothing and ExplorOz is a
self-funding service. For over 3 years now, the ExplorOz website has provided extensive
services to the 4WD and Tourism industries at below costs, however
without the immediate volume or cost increase it will not continue to
operate.
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Cost increases - Not an April Fool's Joke! |
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Effective 1st April, the cost of Membership and
Advertising on ExplorOz will increase. However, anyone with existing
campaigns and membership will not be affected. This also means that
any new membership
or advertising
purchased between now and April 1 will be at the current rate. However,
fees are going up to $50 for the annual membership, with the award
qualification (complimentary) given for shop order values over $150.
The renewal fee is going up to $30/yr. Remember, you
still have 5 more days to purchase
a 12mth membership at the current rate of $30. |
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Road Conditions |
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Road Conditions continue to be a free service - this is the only
unsealed road report Australia-wide. Reports are re-published a
couple of times per week. |
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Adventure Shop |
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We continue to increase our range and provide a top
quality service for our mail order shipments. We have now added a
new "department" to our store, with the addition of 3 new
VIDEO titles.
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Video: Get Into 4WD
Is basically a training video and covers Driver Tips, Recovery
Procedures and Accessories. Features one of Sydney's most well known
and respected Driver Trainers, Vic Widman. Would be very useful for
someone planning to see what skills are required in real situations
and would make an ideal gift.
$35 |
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Videos: Big Red to the Beach and 2002 Tuff
Truck Challenge
Both titles come from the the publishers of the the 4WD
Monthly Magazine. The Big Red video was filmed during a Simpson
Desert trip from Sydney and includes footage of Big Red, Fraser
Island, bush characters and some handy hints. The Tuff Truck
Challenge is footage of a hard-core off-road event.
$34.95 each | So that's it for this edition of the ExplorOz
User Newsletter!
Regards,
The ExplorOz Team |