Wednesday, April 11, 2007

10 Things You Can Do To Sell (A Lot Of) Ads On Your Website

10 Things You Can Do To Sell (A Lot Of) Ads On Your Website
by: Andrew Wroblewski
Here are (10) easy to implement ideas to increase ad sales on your website:
1. Offer discounts to advertisers who spend more money or purchase a larger volume of ads.
2. Offer your advertisers a free incentive or bonus if they renew their ads. It might be something like "purchase 11 months
and get the 12th free. You could also offer them a copy of a product you might be selling if they renew their current contract term.
3. You just don't have to sell add space at the top or bottom of your pages or even in the left/right hand columns, you can sell space right smack dab in the middle of the page and have your page text "wrap around" the ad.
4. You can sell a lot more ads if you re-write some of the content of your pages to reference their particular product.
5. Offer potential ad customers free or additional listings on other parts of your site when they purchase regular ad space.
6. You can offer an honest endorsement of your advertisers product, if they would be willing to supply you a copy to try out.
7. In addition to #6, offer to place your personal review or testimonial near their advertisement. This always acts like a magnet to draw visitors to the actual ad.
8. Dust off the P.T. Barnum in you and try offer special deals like "pay for two months upfront and get a third month at no charge" or "buy one get one free" or something similar to that. Use you creative mind!
9. If you website sells products that would be of interest to your potential advertisers, offer them (your product) as "signing" bonuses for signing on as an advertiser on your site.
10. Give advertisers your personal guarantee that if they don't receive a certain amount of exposures, clicks etc., that you will give them another months worth of ad space for free.
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Affiliate Marketing - What Can a Beginner Expect

You will often her that affiliate marketing is the best way to start when trying to earn money online. A lot of affiliate programs do try to make it as easy as possible for you to promote there products, by providing you with emails for you to send out, classified ads for you to copy and paste and various other tools for their affiliates in order to sell their programs and products.
However, what is not quite so easy is acquiring a list to send these emails to. Also, the fact that thousands of other people are also copying and pasting those classified ads for the same products makes it difficult to make a sale.
So alas, you will resort to paying for solo ezine ads or pay per click advertising. This can become an expensive fast, especially for someone new to affiliate marketing or online business in general.
So what is the thing to do? Is affiliate marketing a scam? Do real people really make any money doing this?
Well, the answer is not quite clear cut. Yes, real people do make a lot of money with affiliate marketing. But, I guarantee they are not fresh faced newbies, they are experienced marketers who have paid their dues and learned how to build a list to promote their affiliate products to.
So, if a person wants to pursue affiliate marketing, know that it is not a get rich quick option (there's no such thing).The first thing that you must do is learn how to build an opt-in list. There are plenty of programs out there that can show you how to do this with minimal effort and expense.
Remember, making money with affiliate marketing is like any other worthwhile endeavor, it takes knowledge, action, patience, and perseverance. Start with building your list and you will surely have success.
About the Author
Jackie Shumpert is the owner of several websites and blogs. If you found this article helpful please visit: http://onlinebusinessviews.blogspot.com http://tns.freetraffic1.com http://yourhomebizsolutions.com/im http://affiliatemarketing.yourhomebizsolutions.com/1

Beating Adwords vs Google Cash - Which One Is The Better Buy?

Which One Wins The Adwords Ebook Game?
There are many ebooks on Google Adwords. Some live up to the hype, and some are way over rated. This article will examine two of these ebooks to shed some light on which one is over rated, and which one lives up to the other one's hype. One is called Google Cash and the other one is called Beating Adwords.
Let's start out with Google Cash.
For a long time, Google Cash, written by Chris Carpenter, was considered the top Google Adwords guide. It has been updated twice in about three years, and you do get some great bonuses when you purchase it. .
That all sounds great on the surface, but unfortunately, Google Cash simply does not live up to all of the hype, and if you think you are going to earn anywhere near the numbers you see on the Google Cash website, don't count on it.
In fact, in terms of actual usefulness, you could easily take the first 100 pages of Google Cash and turn it into about 5 or 10 pages of useful information - since a lot of it is about Chris Carpenter's journey to success. In fact, most of the practical information in Google Cash can be found in the Appendix! This is where you will start to learn a little bit about Google's quality score and Google's recent changes.
The most ironic thing about Google Cash is that outside of the Appendix, the most useful thing about Google Cash is the bonuses it comes with. Outside of the bonuses and the Appendix, you can definately learn some very useful things from Google Cash as it does contain some quality information, but if there was an over-rated Adwords ebook competition, Google Cash might very well win the prize!
Now that you know a little bit about Google Cash, let's take a look at one of Google Cash's main competitors - Beating Adwords, which sells for the same price as Google Cash.
Beating Adwords was written by Carson and Kyle, authors of Inside The List, and co-owners of Wealthy Affiliate, which is an internet marketing community designed to help people like you and me become successful internet marketers. Since its launch a little over a year ago, it has been updated FOUR times, because Carson and Kyle want you to stay on top of Google's changes.
Beating Adwords is packed with the information you need to learn to effectively compete in the Adwords game. Beating Adwords doesn't beat around the bush and tell you about Carson and Kyle's journey to success. Rather, it tells you what you need to know today success at Adwords. Carson and Kyle unload, and give you the tips and tricks they have used and modified to earn over $10,000 a month with Google Adwords.
If you really want to succeed at Adwords, don't buy into the hype and settle for "updated" versions of out of date, over-rated ebooks. Rather, settle for the most up to date and cutting edge ebooks on the market, like Beating Adwords.
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About the Author
Keith has over 2 years experience within the Internet marketing field and has become the editor of several affiliate marketing websites including . CLICK HERE! to learn more about the top recources to help you start earning money online!