well, I'm not a merchant, but as a consumer, I think it would be great to have a site to go to that advertises the new products coming out from a group of independent merchants. You guys do advertise here, and DAZ to a certain extent, but most of the time its more from word of mouth, (or word of posting). Plus I'm surprised either place allows any outside vendor advertising, especially rendo, but its probably good in DAZ's case , as most of the stuff supports the products they sell. From the independent end, though, how would you get the word out to all the possible consumers? Banner ads everywhere for sure. Maybe an affiliate program. You need to get box ads within the Poser package, which means support from EF, which also means you would have to support the Poser stock figures to a certain extent. How do you reach the people that buy Poser but have no clue there is even an outside market? Get the sales list from EF ? Is there a way to get a banner on Amazon? Advertise in 3D World ? Maybe the Parent site could take 10-25% of the revenue that would be used for advertsing, site upkeep, etc. That would still allow the merchants the majority of the sales in their pockets, but they would not have to worry about advertsing

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