http://www.daniweb.com/forums/ Our Advertising Sales Strategies forum is the place for online publishers to engage in discussions related to selling ad space and using affiliate programs, site representation firms, ad networks, and working with advertising agencies. Please note that it is against our rules to advertise your website here, or solicit that you have ad space available or are looking for ad space. en-US Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:01:20 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.daniweb.com/alphaimages/misc/rss.jpg http://www.daniweb.com/forums/ http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread235280.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:57:43 GMT Hello, Thank you for reading this post. I have a website with growing traffic. In the month of October 2009 I have passed one million page view with my search engine. I want to charge $1 per 1,000 page view... Is this right amount? How can I get customers?? I am thinking on companies... Hello,
Thank you for reading this post.
I have a website with growing traffic.
In the month of October 2009 I have passed one million page view with my search engine.

I want to charge $1 per 1,000 page view...
Is this right amount?

How can I get customers??
I am thinking on companies with brand products..

Your advice will be highly appreciated.

Isaac ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies EmeraldOne http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread235280.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread232449.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:38:11 GMT Written by paperkool aka Glen Jon You can make money with forums. The hidden element that search engines feed upon is forums. You can be part of an internet strong hold, when you submit. Your comments and articles can actively serve as food to millions of searches. Inquisitive prospects... Written by paperkool aka Glen Jon

You can make money with forums. The hidden element that search engines feed upon is forums. You can be part of an internet strong hold, when you submit. Your comments and articles can actively serve as food to millions of searches. Inquisitive prospects constantly make searches for all sorts of things. It’s not difficult to submit to hundreds, when you use an organized plan. The idea here is to create a data base. Your data will be your list of active forum’s . First become a member. Become a member of forums you have interest in. This way it will be easy to make comments on things you care about. Becoming a member of forums is somewhat like owning shares in cyber real estate. I consider them a small pieces of cyber space. Most of them use the same format. This makes it a easy to fill in the fields as rapidly as possible.

Having your own website is useful. You can direct forum participants to your website or affiliate link. That whole process is some what a soft sale. You may ask “how do I get viewers to go to my website or affiliate link?” Here’s how. Forums and email usually allow what is known as a “signature line.” This is where members, when posting or making comments, put their link. You’ll typically see an article and at the bottom there’ll be one or two short lines of text that are actually links leading to what ever the writer is promoting. A percentage of viewers will read your article or comment. Another percentage of readers will click your link ,out of curiosity. This may sound far fetched, if you are not accustom to the concept however, signature links have proven their value consistently. Forum signatures get clicks. Signature clicks are so powerful that forum owners regard them as a privilege, to forum members. Some forum owners protect and guard that privilege carefully.

It’s a privilege indeed to have a signature link. Owner or managers are usually called “moderators .” A moderator will usually monitor a forum participation. Some moderators will allow you to have a signature link only if you post, at least 10 or more relevant comments. Other moderators don’t care and will allow participants to have a signature link immediately, after registration. The said purpose of restricting signatures is to control spam. Your forum marketing mission is to constantly make “relevant” comments and submit to at least 500 forums. This will get you an enormous amount of traffic as well as build back links, to you that stay up on the web for years. The back links will ultimately give you a higher rating on search engines. A high score on search engines combined with your link being viewable to thousands, perhaps millions of forum members is a great reason to get involved. You can start with two or three forums. Then eventually expand to hundreds and beyond. Remember relevancy is important, when you post. Make sure your comments and posts are relevant to what the forum topic is. Do not post irrelevant material because you will be banned. Forum members especially moderators are sensitive . ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies paperkool http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread232449.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread231821.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:29:14 GMT I have a website and i want to sell some useful resources from my website but i want to know effective Advertising sales strategies for this product. Waiting for experts answers: I have a website and i want to sell some useful resources from my website but i want to know effective Advertising sales strategies for this product.

Waiting for experts answers: ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies umairraja52 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread231821.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread230582.html Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:59:42 GMT Hey;
How do you figure out how much you should be able to charge advertisers to advertise on your site? I am not going to use adsense or any of the other "pre-made ad systems" so any feedback would really be appreciated. ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies tiger86 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread230582.html http://www.daniweb.com/news/story230391.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:42:24 GMT UK broadcaster Channel 4 has signed a deal with YouTube to bring full TV programmes online, streamed for free. It's the first time that any broadcaster in the world has made such a comprehensive schedule of 'catch-up' programming available for free via YouTube.

Of course, when I say free I mean ad-supported but that's only to be expected. With YouTube now serving some one billion video streams a day, it makes commercial sense to increase your advertising reach in this way. Financial terms are not being disclosed, but the partnership runs for an initial term of at least three years on a shared revenue basis. We do know, however, that the deal is non-exclusive, allowing Channel 4 to continue distributing its 4oD service via its own website and other third party sites.

According to the press release from Oliver Rickman, manager for Google UK Communications and Public Affairs, the terms of the deal mean that "Channel 4 will make its 4oD video-on-demand ‘catch-up’ service of new programmes available via YouTube shortly after television transmission, including series that have already proved particularly popular with online audiences such as Skins, Hollyoaks, The Inbetweeners and Peep Show".

As well as that, YouTube users will also be able to access around 3,000 hours of full length programming from the Channel 4 archive at any given time, including shows like Brass Eye, Derren Brown, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Teachers to name but a few.

Although the service will not be available in full until early next year, content is expected to start dribbling through in the coming weeks and months.

Andy Duncan, Channel 4’s Chief Executive, said: “Channel 4 was the first broadcaster anywhere in the world to make all its commissioned content available online and we’ve consistently pioneered in this field. This strategic partnership is another important milestone for us and we’re delighted to be combining the power of the ‘4’ brand and the appeal of our content with YouTube’s unrivalled reach and reputation online. Making our programmes directly accessible to YouTube’s 20 million UK users will financially benefit both Channel 4 and our independent production partners and help bolster our investment in quality British content. It demonstrates our ability to strike dynamic commercial partnerships to help underpin our future as a commercially funded, not-for-profit multi-platform public service network.” ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies happygeek http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread230391.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread228199.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:02:42 GMT Hello if you need some assistance to unlock your phones, just reply my thread ,maybe I can also help you how to unlock your precious phones, because even me experience to need some help to unlock my phones.... God Bless you all… Hello if you need some assistance to unlock your phones,
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In our press releases we usually write that in Andersen we develop and implement software. It is true, but only partially. We are also constantly searching for new customers and selling them our services.

In this article we produce information about what the customer can expect from the seller of IT service, what points he should notice and how find the seller that meets you requirement. Also it can be useful for seller that can find a lot of practical information.

The full article you can find there: http://www.andersensoft.com/en/blogshows.php?m=sales ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies AndersenSoft http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread224825.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread224553.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:49:58 GMT The advent of new digital marketing using e-mail has enabled markers to maintain continuous quality dialogue with customers and prospects. Every forward-thinking company is using various innovative techniques to get the maximum mileage from the limited marketing budget. saleslistsonline thinks ... The advent of new digital marketing using e-mail has enabled markers to maintain continuous quality dialogue with customers and prospects. Every forward-thinking company is using various innovative techniques to get the maximum mileage from the limited marketing budget. saleslistsonline thinks Among the various strategies used to narrow down targeting customers/prospects, is through segmentation of the customer database.

Email segmentation as core strategy lies in the identification of layers of buyers within a market sharing similar needs, customer behavior and buying strategy. The essential knowledge and identification of each customer from the universal database of the organization helps to reach them with quality offers.

Contrary to the general belief, email segmentation doesn’t have to be complicated.

Major understanding of the customer should be as follows:

*What messages will be make them to react favorably to your product or service?

*Which all groups within your database are happy to get a discount offer, and how many will purchase when free shipping is offered?

*What portion of your target audience are ‘early adopters’, who need to be among the very first to hear about your new products?

*How often do they want to hear from you?

Regards
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http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/...emption-rates/
The blog also went on about how these coupon customers spent more. Thus, in this economic times, advertisers have tapped to those customers and actually have seen a boost in their sales. So would you use coupons as an advertising sale strategy? ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies InsightsDigital http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread221863.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread221588.html Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:10:52 GMT I read on a blog about the lack of rich media ads and not many ads that are considered rich media are not rich at all. If the Flash ad does not contain video nor animation, then it recommended, not to bother. So what do you think about that?
An excerpt:
# There's a lot of rich media being served – but most of it's not very rich. DoubleClick says that in 2008, less than 40% of the impressions it served were GIFs or JPEGs. So does that mean the other 60% were rich media? Not according to DoubleClick: it says 55% of its 2008 impressions were "simple Flash" ads. Just 6% of the impressions served in 2008 were rich enough to be labeled "rich media."

http://blogs.forrester.com/marketing...ia-report.html ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies InsightsDigital http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread221588.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread221283.html Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:16:57 GMT I just read an article on Ad Age about how Nielsen have confirmed what we all knew, that advertising spent went down in 2009. It also reflect that advertising spend was affected not only online, but on traditional form of advertising as well. http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=138852... I just read an article on Ad Age about how Nielsen have confirmed what we all knew, that advertising spent went down in 2009. It also reflect that advertising spend was affected not only online, but on traditional form of advertising as well.
http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=138852
So have you personally have seen effects of the Recession on your advertising spend? ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies InsightsDigital http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread221283.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread221144.html Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:55:21 GMT Hello, i am planning to start new business to earn Google Adnsense . Here i am planning to make new website and hire few content writer who will write content on daily basis and we will upload to server with google Adsense and do as much as SEO we can do to earn more and more adsense... Hello,
i am planning to start new business to earn Google Adnsense . Here i am planning to make new website and hire few content writer who will write content on daily basis and we will upload to server with google Adsense and do as much as SEO we can do to earn more and more adsense money . We know internet marketing so there will no problem but i want know is it nice idea or not ? and looks visible ?

What we going to do with new website for Adsense (Google) ?
---Find Easy Domain which google can crawl easily
---upload website wtih Adsense setup
--- Wait for google which come and crawl that easily

Please tell me your personal view for google adsense.

Cost will not more then 150$ for each website so no ..matter of money also just want know that works fine or not ! ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies hireaprogrammer http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread221144.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread215491.html Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:27:20 GMT Hi, I just developed a website for my resume writing and career coaching business. I am an excellent writer who has been working for other companies. I decided it was time to branch out on my own. Do you know of any affiliate managers willing to work with new entrepreneurs? I sell resume... Hi,

I just developed a website for my resume writing and career coaching business. I am an excellent writer who has been working for other companies. I decided it was time to branch out on my own.

Do you know of any affiliate managers willing to work with new entrepreneurs? I sell resume writing and career coaching products.

I appreciate any input you could give me on this topic!

Thanks,
Patricia Erickson
SNIP ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies PErickson http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread215491.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread215235.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:20:22 GMT Are you familiar with PointRoll data? If so, what are the main differences with DART? Most importantly, what questions should you be asking yourself when you look into PointRoll data/reports? Thanks Are you familiar with PointRoll data? If so, what are the main differences with DART? Most importantly, what questions should you be asking yourself when you look into PointRoll data/reports? Thanks ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies InsightsDigital http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread215235.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread215078.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:43:19 GMT A Nielsen report stated that consumers are now seeking value in ads.
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insigh...lue_themed_ads

As per the report, the take-aways were:"
Some rules-of-thumb include:

* Give viewers a reason to watch;
* Be entertaining;
* Use easily recognizable brand cues;
* Have a clear and simple message;
* Don’t cram too much information into a single ad;
* Keep the visuals uncluttered."

So what do you think? Will this impact how you strategize for your advertising? ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies InsightsDigital http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread215078.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread213493.html Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:24:53 GMT Hi Everyone! I'm looking for a sign-up HTML code. I used to have one but I lost it when I changed computers. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone here could point me to a place where I could get one for FREE (no memberiship sigh-up in WUFOO, please).
Thank you very much! ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies goodtaste http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread213493.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread213004.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:47:56 GMT Hello, members. I am the most censored and cyberstalked person you will ever come across, and I hope to learn some ways to counter this problem by becoming a member here. Some of the things that are done to impede my freedom of speech and press online are truly amazing and magnificent, and I... Hello, members. I am the most censored and cyberstalked person you will ever come across, and I hope to learn some ways to counter this problem by becoming a member here. Some of the things that are done to impede my freedom of speech and press online are truly amazing and magnificent, and I have made tapes of the cyberstalking as it happens. The public is very interested in cyberterrorism and cyberstalking, and they should be. I believe my videos will be wildly successful, maybe even with as many hits as the "Leave Britney Spears Alone" videos. The orig. video and remixes in that series have gotten over 100 million hits.

The thing is that I do not want to publish my videos until they are monetized, and the cyberstalkers seem to have roadblocked me from getting to AdSense. When I applied at AdSense, the message I received said that an application was already pending and that I would hear back from them within a week - which I did not, and neither had I previously applied. Therefore, I may need to begin with someone else, because I want to release some of the videos immediately.

Also, I blog. I guess you would say I write political content. Some of my articles that I publish in citizens media get over 10,000 viewers a week even with the very fierce censorship. So, you can see I am missing revenue by not being monetized and publishing only in the websites I own. I published in various other networks long enough to become recognized, and that has been accomplished now.

My FIRST question is, what alternatives to AdSense do you suggest I try.

Secondly, I am director of an online advocacy group with over 200 members, and we will move our Internet home to a new website that I own. To decrease the censorship, it was suggested that I do live streaming, because the folks doing this would not want the world to see them doing it. I may want that set up as a separate pay-per-view deal (not a part of my regular blog) with no up-front cost to me. My SECOND question is, what service would you suggest.

Actually, what I need is a computer consultant, but I have no $. Just a large online presence that can really go HUGE if I can overcome the censorship - only some of which is done from stalkers taking over my PC. Much of it is done at the sites where I publish, so maybe getting away from them and publishing only on my own sites will help. I have not updated my present website in 1.5 years, and once I update it and announce the update, there is really NO TELLING how many hits we will get immediately. Without updates, we get about 7,000 hits some months. I do not plan to update that site until we are monetized and perhaps web streaming.

Anyway, you can see I am more a pupil type of member than someone who can contribute meaningfully to your discussions. That is, unless you want to learn something about cyberstalking. I could teach college courses in that! ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies ad? http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread213004.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread212799.html Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:27:27 GMT Hai, I am recently developed a web portal for a community . The community is a state in india. Now the site is at the beginning stage. The income of the site is mainly through advertisement. I put spaces for advertisement in each page. A few local advertisements are there in my site. Please... Hai,
I am recently developed a web portal for a community . The community is a state in india. Now the site is at the beginning stage. The income of the site is mainly through advertisement. I put spaces for advertisement in each page. A few local advertisements are there in my site.

Please let me know is there is any advertisement agencies for giving advertisement in our site. I know the rate is according to the popularity of the site. Even though how they calculate the rate of the advertisement.

I saw the advertisements of intel,microsoft,.... in various blogs and web sites. Please let me know whether they got the advertisement directly from intel,microsoft,... or from any agencies ?

Thanks in advance
Rajeesh ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies rajeesh_rsn http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread212799.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread212419.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:20:49 GMT Would you use free software? Or what do you think about free software. totally free. Would you use free software? Or what do you think about free software. totally free. ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies cfrctsc http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread212419.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread211820.html Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:52:57 GMT I have been working with Amway for a while, but can not get any people to my website to take a look at the products. I have tried Graigslist and some other websites to advertise my website, but it did not work for some reason! Please Help! Thank You guys! Here is my website: ... I have been working with Amway for a while, but can not get any people to my website to take a look at the products. I have tried Graigslist and some other websites to advertise my website, but it did not work for some reason! Please Help!
Thank You guys! Here is my website: ifast.qhealthbeauty.com ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies Andreas1983 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread211820.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread211297.html Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:46:02 GMT These are the simple tips to placing your Adsense ads on your page: * Always put Adsense banner ads at the top of your pages * Try making your Adsense ads background the same color as the background of your pages * Use Large rectangle 338x280 at the middle of your page and put the... These are the simple tips to placing your Adsense ads on your page:

• Always put Adsense banner ads at the top of your pages

• Try making your Adsense ads background the same color as the background of your pages

• Use Large rectangle 338x280 at the middle of your page and put the title at the top of that ads something like RELATED SITE or what ever like that

Hopefully useful ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies ubalin2 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread211297.html http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220741.html Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:50:20 GMT You have to give Steve Ballmer and Microsoft credit. After years of sitting on the sidelines playing defense and catch-up, this year they have definitely been on offense. Whether it's the ad wars, releasing Bing, the deal with Yahoo!, the retail strategy or its latest move, a deal with Nokia , the company known for being stodgy and slow seems to have finally awaken from its decade long slumber and is attempting to define the terms of the game. To that end, Ive decided to grade Microsoft on each of these moves.

Ad Wars - Grade: D

While the company is trying very hard to redefine itself to a new generation of buyers, the ads have mostly fallen flat. As I've written here before, the 'I'm a PC' and 'Laptop Hunters' fail to take into consideration that they sell an OS and not hardware. The Laptop Hunters got some traction, taking advantage of the weak economy and high price of Macs, but recent sales figures have shown that Macs are selling just fine (as I wrote in Lauren's Wrong: People Definitely Want Macs).

Bing - Grade: B- (but work still outstanding)

While I haven't been personally impressed with Bing when I've used it, it has captured the attention of the media. I like the interface (even if it's not totally original), but I've gotten mixed results when using it as my search tool. To be fair, some people love the Home page picture and the visual nature of Bing, and it has done very well out of the gate, but it has yet to prove that it has made any substantial improvement in market share. If my blog stats are any benchmark, I can tell you I get very few hits from Bing on sites where I can track search engine sources.

Yahoo! Deal - Grade: A

On the face of it, this was a great move by Microsoft. They didn't have to spend their cash reserves to buy the company, but they got many of the same advantages as though they did. As I wrote recently in Microsoft and Yahoo! Take a Big Gamble on Bing, Microsoft did well getting a 10 year agreement for Yahoo! to run Bing giving the company two major outlets for Bing technology for a very long time. While it remains to be seen if Bing will pan out, Microsoft gets Bing in front of Yahoo's 20 percent search engine market share and that catapults them from their current 8 percent ranking.

Retail Strategy Grade: F for idea, Incomplete for implementation

Sorry, but I just don't see how Microsoft can succeed with a chain of Microsoft stores. Unlike Apple, they don't sell very much hardware (except the Zune and XBox 360). What's more, they will be undercutting their channel partners such as Best Buy which sells out of the same retail locations where Microsoft hopes to operate. At best, they dilute the market for these partners. At worst, they lose tons of money in high rent locations. This whole approach makes little sense to me.

Nokia Deal - Grade: C

Just the other day, Microsoft announced a deal with cellphone handset maker Nokia to develop business software including Microsoft Office to run on Nokia's Symbian OS. While this seems like a solid approach, this Mac World article points out that both companies are losing market share this year so in a sense it feels like a desperation move by two fading giants hoping to stop the bleeding. But it could also provide a more competitive marketplace for business smart phones.

So there you have it. It's not an outstanding report card, but it shows that Microsoft is trying hard to regain control of the conversation.

What do you think of my grading? Was I too hard? Too Easy? Leave a comment and let me know. ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies Techwriter10 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread220741.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread210430.html Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:12:05 GMT I just read a blog today about how Google has introduced video ad previews in its SERPs. Nevertheless, the video help engage the visitor to learn more about the product/service and spend more time. Would you consider this advertising tactic for your product? ... I just read a blog today about how Google has introduced video ad previews in its SERPs. Nevertheless, the video help engage the visitor to learn more about the product/service and spend more time.

Would you consider this advertising tactic for your product?

http://www.steverubel.com/advertisin...iews-in-google ]]> Advertising Sales Strategies InsightsDigital http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread210430.html