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Frequently Asked Questions
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How much is the premium service?
The premium service offers the same content without the ads. The premium service is $60 per year. Send us an email at sales@mylovelyassistant.com and we'll help you get started.

How do I sign up for advertising?
Send us an email at sales@mylovelyassistant.com and we'll help you get started. Prices (and I know that was your next question) are based on the number of impressions your ad gets (how many people see it). You can purchase a set number of impressions up front to keep your costs fixed. We will also track how many clicks your ads get. For now, pricing is $2 per 1000 impressions or $.10 per click. These prices are subject to change without notice. Advertisements must be of interest to magicians (as determined by us) but excluding general magic dealers (see next question). General magic dealers are invited to advertise with us on our front page.

What kind of ads are we talking about?
Our free service contains single line, text-only advertisements to help us offset our operating costs. These ads will be of specific interest to magicians -- the kind of advertisers you see in MAGIC, Genii, or The Linking Ring. Furthermore, we will not accept advertising from general magic dealers. Think about it. Why would a dealer use our free service if we're going to make ads for another dealer magically appear on his website? We won't do that. General magic dealers are invited to advertise with us on our front page.

Still skeptical? Then take a look at the Examples page which randomly serves current text advertisements in the examples.


What's in it for me?
MyLovelyAssistant.com hosts the largest magic reviews database on the web. We're offering you... all those reviews... displayed on your site... for free! What's not to love? Reviews give your customers the confidence they need to buy products from you online. That's the real money answer - customers with confidence to buy.

Where do I find the MLA product ids?
The MLA product id and sku are shown on the product's details page just below the product description along with the list price and publisher. In the example shown, the pid is 7635 and the sku is 9p3zZw4Y53dx8CI.

What if there are no reviews for a product?
Here are examples of what that looks like for both brief and full content modes.

Warning: main(http://www.mylovelyassistant.com/../synd/r.php?mla_pid=2932) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/mylove/public_html/templates/services/rssfaq.tpl.php on line 113

Warning: main(http://www.mylovelyassistant.com/../synd/r.php?mla_pid=2932) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/mylove/public_html/templates/services/rssfaq.tpl.php on line 113

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.mylovelyassistant.com/../synd/r.php?mla_pid=2932' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mylove/public_html/templates/services/rssfaq.tpl.php on line 113

Warning: main(http://www.mylovelyassistant.com/../synd/r.php?mla_pid=2932&content=full) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/mylove/public_html/templates/services/rssfaq.tpl.php on line 116

Warning: main(http://www.mylovelyassistant.com/../synd/r.php?mla_pid=2932&content=full) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/mylove/public_html/templates/services/rssfaq.tpl.php on line 116

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.mylovelyassistant.com/../synd/r.php?mla_pid=2932&content=full' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mylove/public_html/templates/services/rssfaq.tpl.php on line 116

What if the product isn't found in the MLA database?
This might happen, for example, if we can't locate a product in our database with the product id provided. In this case, no content is returned. More precisely, we return a single non-breaking space (&nbsp;) and a line break(<br>).

Warning: main(http://www.mylovelyassistant.com/../synd/r.php?mla_pid=0) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/mylove/public_html/templates/services/rssfaq.tpl.php on line 132

Warning: main(http://www.mylovelyassistant.com/../synd/r.php?mla_pid=0) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/mylove/public_html/templates/services/rssfaq.tpl.php on line 132

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.mylovelyassistant.com/../synd/r.php?mla_pid=0' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mylove/public_html/templates/services/rssfaq.tpl.php on line 132

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