Comments on: Day 3/4 – $505, All $150+ contributors to get visibility http://www.stevepoland.com/day-34-505-all-150-contributors-to-get-visibility/ Serial entrepreneur and former early @TechCrunch Writer. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eliot Sykes http://www.stevepoland.com/day-34-505-all-150-contributors-to-get-visibility/comment-page-1/#comment-1313 Eliot Sykes Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:47:28 +0000 http://www.ringsidestartup.com/2007/03/30/day-34-505-all-150-contributors-to-get-visibility/#comment-1313 Few ideas: Increase demand for your ad space by imposing a limit. E.g. say you will only accept x number of $150 logo placements. Consider introducing a time limit too, such as $150 buys you a fortnight. Create multiple class of ads - e.g. single line text links in the right hand column for somewhere between $10 - $50 donations - look at the existing donation amounts to see what people are willing to give to help set a good price. If you're worried about running out of space, you could sell space by the pixel a la million dollar homepage. This ad format will **** off some people for sure, but others will see it as some fun. Blog review companies for cash? A competition. Just did this on a site that launched a week ago. A £20 amazon voucher has given extra exposure and newsletter sign ups that I would not have got otherwise. Admittedly the exposure may not reach your ideal audience, so to get directed traffic you'd have to post the competition in forums where entrepreneurs hang out - techcrunch for example (if its not against forum rules). Its simple to create competition forms on a wordpress blog using the cforms plugin. Few ideas:

Increase demand for your ad space by imposing a limit. E.g. say you will only accept x number of $150 logo placements. Consider introducing a time limit too, such as $150 buys you a fortnight.

Create multiple class of ads – e.g. single line text links in the right hand column for somewhere between $10 – $50 donations – look at the existing donation amounts to see what people are willing to give to help set a good price.

If you’re worried about running out of space, you could sell space by the pixel a la million dollar homepage. This ad format will **** off some people for sure, but others will see it as some fun.

Blog review companies for cash?

A competition. Just did this on a site that launched a week ago. A £20 amazon voucher has given extra exposure and newsletter sign ups that I would not have got otherwise. Admittedly the exposure may not reach your ideal audience, so to get directed traffic you’d have to post the competition in forums where entrepreneurs hang out – techcrunch for example (if its not against forum rules). Its simple to create competition forms on a wordpress blog using the cforms plugin.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.stevepoland.com/day-34-505-all-150-contributors-to-get-visibility/comment-page-1/#comment-1312 Kevin Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:24:48 +0000 http://www.ringsidestartup.com/2007/03/30/day-34-505-all-150-contributors-to-get-visibility/#comment-1312 Good idea, I'll post the script on my blog. So for all you potential advertisers out there, you'll be looking at an extra 10-15 page views per month. :) Good idea, I’ll post the script on my blog. So for all you potential advertisers out there, you’ll be looking at an extra 10-15 page views per month. :)

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