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Using
userbars to get more personal
Talking about yourself is not the best sponsor approach to
the new customers. They do not know you and are at the beginning more
interested to see what you can offer for them.
However if you are writing a blog and you have
regular readers then revealing more personal details makes you more
familiar and more real for them. One of the popular trend is using
userbars. These are thin horizontal banners that are mostly present on
forums. You can create your own in a graphics software, use some tool
that will do it for you fast or just find some of thousands available
online. Google can help you, just narrow the image search to look for images size 350 x 19.
What does the userbar tells about you? Well it can
be whatever you want. It can be about your music taste, what brends
you like, what is your favourite sport team etc. Of course you do not
want to go off topic. Keep it close to your blog theme or if you post
in forums something that is a common interest with others. Using it on
your main web site might be a bad idea. ( web site sponsor )
Now here are my userbars. For a
computer guy like me it tells a lot about my preferred software: The best web browser:

The email program that I use:

My favourite Instant Messaging client:

My favourite XP Skin:

Photo viewer:

Open source office package:

And the torrent client I prefer:

So get creative and create one or two that you can
use on forums or stay at the sidebar of your blog. It always
helps to be more personal when you are doing business online.
Feel free to use my
userbars but please download them first and upload them to some free
photo hosting service or at your web site. Direct linking wil
be blocked.
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