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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. 

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