Thank you all for your great insights and recommendations.

Some forums do not allow for signatures - and you jeopardize your membership if you get caught, even once, with a spammy signature. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Do keep that in mind.

We all know most business users use Excel to track sales and metrics. Thus, which tricks on Excel do you use that you strongly recommend for others to use? Please do share.

Thanks for explaining what is rich media ads.

One important aspect of social online advertising is refining the targeted group of potential clients. For some of the brands I represent, I would not recommend advertising on certain social networks.

Many branded content sites only engage the visitor for 90 seconds to 2 minutes. Of course, this is not including Facebook. So if Digg visitors spent that much on the site, it is still good from an...

I found this site useful and it may help you in answering this question:
http://www.searchengineguide.com/mike-moran/best-practices-in-search-are-where-you-s.php

From my experience, CTR for adsense words depends on categories and there could be vast differences between the keywords within that same categories. Usually 1-3%. In some long tail categories, I...

Both banners, especially if these banners are rich media, and PPC advertising can help bring relevant traffic to the website as well as it can help increase exposure to the brand.

Many online ads nowadays have a social media component to them. It can either be the voting of hands up or hands down on Facebook ads. Or it can be tweeting about a rich media ad. So how do you take...

I just read on Nielsen's blog about how advertisers tactics on their coupon program have paid off.
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/coupon-enthusiasts-drive-up-redemption-rates/
The...

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...

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...

Pointroll caters to rich media small ads. So have anyone here used Pointroll?

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

A Nielsen report stated that consumers are now seeking value in ads.
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/consumer_insight/August2009/are_value_themed_ads

As per the report, the take-aways...

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. ...

Digg is a community sharing news site where high rated news appear on the front page.

Digg will unleash its new advertising platform which allows users to vote. Depending on the type of vote, the advertiser may spend more money or less money. Would you consider advertising on Digg? Is...

I know there are many podcasts and online radio stations and if the producer accepts advertising, it provides an opportunity for businesses to advertise. I have seen display ads on Pandora on my Ipod...

There are many sites that provide the opportunity to become a sponsor. Has anyone on this board have done it and if so, what lessons have you learned or any recommendations do you have to share?...

I got an affiliate marketing magazine today and it mentioned about how people make millions. I want to now how do they do it? I betcha many members here want to know as well.

How have you used the Freemium model on your site? As I am researching it for a client, I found that looking through the journalism/news sites was a good place to start. For example, Financial Times...

Does anyone on this board think that review sites have actually helped their business? I perhaps will make this into a thread.

What are my options to advertise on mobile other than text message and the small text ads that come out when Im visiting AP news or some other news module? Please do tell.

Thanks for the link. I did go to the site to see what you mean and though no pop-out ads came out, I have had that experience in the past. In regards to the article content, I did like it but I would...

IT is very good. I just found this site which is a job site for bloggers and there are a few ads here for technical writers. http://jobs.problogger.net/
You could check out the pay scale for similar...

Hi
If you dont have an invitation for your Google Voice, try get one.

http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html

You can select your own numbers and letters. Thus, from an advertising sale...

Unintrusive ads dont interrupt the visitor's experience unlike pop-ups.

I read on a blog that it is a great time to advertise since it is lower cost CPC.

"According to Efficient Frontier, advertisers have "capitalised on this price reduction and achieved more click...

We all know pop up ads were not welcomed by many but what about pop unders or ads in an unintrusive ways, like small bottom lines on a video or on a free mobile app. What do you think?

Do you mean the slides on my site? Some of the slides are very easy to load - the ones that are not slides take forever to load. If you mean the picture above, it supposed to immediately pop up.

Think of the three online activities that your visitors will want the most and the three that could generate a more ROI for your client.

This new finding released by Nielsen reflects that consumers trust virtual friends and strangers' reviews the most. Thus, for business owners, this means that one has to pay constant attention and...

You may have heard already but Google will release their own Operating System based on open source coding. This OS will be Netbook friendly.

Google has been THE Leader for search marketing. Now...

I recommend creating whitepaper in slides format and share it on slideshare with the right keywords. Then, join a few Linkedin groups that you think the members may benefit from your technologies and...

My advice: 1. Attend local meetups that you may encounter potential clients; 2. Create and post Craigslist ads every week and include a creative sample and link to an online portfolio - Make sure you...

Your post was great. Thanks so much for the crash course.

I am contemplating advertising on Facebook and I would like to hear your experiences about advertising on Facebook. Thanks!

I know some stores gained conversions via having a store on Ebay.