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feel free to send me an inquiry and we can discuss your needs offline

the intention of this beta launch to gauge the interests of consumers and so far i`ve gotten 100% positive feedback which is great.  this lets me know to continue moving forward with it.  also it was a side project, i have another company i work on full time.

you are right to a certain extent that my main source of revenue is from my customers however some merchants do offer google ads such as paintballgear.com, amazon.com, buy.com.
now should the ads compete with my store, their prices and quality of product cannot. majority of the time, the ads are for web design and web templates anyways so it has nothing to do with me.

having google adsense on your site can also help with ranking from what i`ve read.

thanks for the comments, drop me an email and we`ll go over your requirements =)

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Even if the ads are not competing with your products they are competing with the money you want to get from your visitors. You don`t want a potential buyer to be ready to purchase and be distracted at the last moment by a compelling ad showing up.


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Without having to download one of these templates, does each one come with a variation for the title page, then for the rest of the slide layouts (a titlebar for blank, bullet, table, etc.)? I`m just looking again at some of the images, and they could definitely interfere with the content on a 10-page show, y`know?

However, if the second slide--the content slide--has, say, a white content area or a contrasted color, whatever, then it would make it easier. If that`s the case, then, although it`d mean a lot of work on your part, I`d like to be able to see both the title page AND the content page template. That`d mean 2 slides for each template.

For example, I`m looking at template 10014. It`s very cool, and certainly attractive. But then again, I do PowerPoint for corporate customers, and end up having to clean up their mistakes. One of those is the seeming inability of business people to understand how to visually present written content.

Then, to answer some of this, I went to 10016, a free version. I expected to simply download the thing, since it`s free. Instead, I had to go through the whole shopping cart and checkout experience. How come I can`t just click "Download" or "Save to your Computer" and be done with it? Or, have a checkbox, to collect a number of them, then download them all?

Another issue I`m pondering, is how you`re going to make money from this. There`s a reason people charge $45 for templates. :-) I`m a big fan of lower prices, and with our signal flags we`re certainly WAY below the current typical price range. However, we`re building a sort of boutique or "life style" business, where a few orders go a long way. We have ideas about how to expand to a fully developed enterprise, down the road, but not for now.

So our extreme low prices are good for us, but don`t work in a standard business model. Is that your intent? Where`s your growth or expansion pathway, then? I`m just curious. :-) You don`t have to explain it if you don`t want to.

hi Craig,
yes the content pages will have a white background that will not interfere with the presenter`s actual content.  I only displayed the title page, but will eventually put the other layouts. again, this is just beta 1.0, i launched it to find out what users are looking for and so far everyone in the community has provided great feedback and i`ve noted everything down for v2.0.

there are reasons to my madness, first is the obvious, i`m going for volume. second my target audience is primarily college students and small businesses. third if a customer needs a "custom custom" layout for their business the cost would be different.  there is more to my business plan that i cannot divulge publicly that will help me generate revenue.
thanks

Kind of like some companies that create and distribute free scripting programs .... it may help lead to custom applications which they can make their real money from.

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