Understand your audience
Before advertisers sign the contract, they want to know who will view their ads. In order to provide potential advertisers this information, you need to know who visits your site, reads your blog and uses your products. Demographic data with age, gender, income, and interests are useful to match ads and your site. This information can be obtained from user registration data, surveys, polls and your own interactions with visitors.

Think about relevant products and potential advertisers
Your blog and website might have a strong focus in a particular industry. In such cases, potential advertisers are easy to identify. For example, a travel blog should target airlines, hotels, destinations, attractions. Some websites need more scouting than others. General social networks, portals target a much broader audience.

Determine your ad rates
This is one of the most frequently asked questions. Wish there was a machine that outputs a specific number for how much you should charge for advertising. Too bad such machine does not exist as there are too many variables for it to consider. However, you have several questions to answer before setting a price:

• How much your competitors charge for a similar campaign?
• How many visitors, pageviews, and impressions you have daily?
• How much does it cost you to design, develop, operate and maintain the website, or blog?
• How long is the advertising contract? Are they likely to continue their ads after the first campaign?

Prepare a media kit
Once you understand your audience, you can show off the value of your advertising program. The media kit should describe your website and its audience. Additionally, it should list all available ad placements and ad specifications (ad dimension, file size, animation length).

Make the first contact
It all begins with the first message, so do your own research and understand the advertiser’s company, its products and target market. In your message, you should describe how advertising on your website will bring high quality visitors and customers to the advertiser. The message should not be from a long, standard template without any details about your website or benefits to this particular advertiser. The message should be personal, should describe your offer and should initiate an action within a specified time frame.

Reply and follow up
Don’t wait forever for your message but don’t push it too aggressively either. Your reply must address all questions and requested information. Your follow up should be polite and appreciative of the person’s time.

Negotiate and close the deal
If you took your time to determine your ad rates ahead of time, you know your lower limit and can walk away if appropriate. A deal can be very flexible: standard rates with a standard contract, lower rates for a longer contract, and lower rates for an exchange of services or partnership. Negotiation should be a win-win situation for both parties, each get their goals, maybe not all, met. To avoid possible legal problems, make sure there is a written agreement between you and the advertiser. The agreement can be formal (signatures, stamps, approvals) or informal (email messages from both parties acknowledging the details, length, and amount involved).

General tips
• Don’t afraid to approach potential advertisers if you believe you have a great website with quality contents and quality audience
• Don’t send a mass message or your messages will be marked as spam and simply ignored
• Do check out your competitors or other sites in the same industry to see their advertisers
• Do use an ad management/tracking system to increase your productivity and provide accountability and transparency to your advertisers

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1. CPA (Cost Per Action, Cost Per Acquisition, Cost Per Lead, Cost Per Purchase)
The advertiser is charged every time a visitor makes a transaction or purchases a product. Publishers can either set a price for each conversion or let the advertisers choose their price. Advertisers like this model since it offers the highest quality and return on investment. Advertisers often control the pricing with this model. When a purchase or lead is generated, it’s counted as one conversion and is reported to the advertiser. For an online diamond store (eg: BlueNile, Zale, etc.), a lead could earn $10 or more.

2. CPC (Cost per Click)
The advertiser is charged for each click on their ads. Click prices range from as low as 10 cents to more than $10 US dollars per click. Either publisher or advertiser can set the price. However, the concern for advertisers with this model is click frauds, which means click counters are inflated artificially to drive up the advertising cost. Publishers should use an ad server with click-fraud prevention technology to offer additional protection for your advertisers.

3. CPM (Cost Per Mille, i.e. Cost Per Thousand Impressions)
The advertiser is charged per thousand impressions. It is one of the more popular model among medium-to-large publishers. Advertisers do not have to worry about inflated clicks as in the CPC model. CPM is a very viable model when a publisher has more than 500,000 impressions per month. For smaller advertisers, number of impressions can be limited through different targeting criteria, including frequency capping, geographical targeting to prevent exceeding advertising budget and yet maintain a high quality traffic. The downside with the CPM model is there is no consideration for clicks, conversions and ultimately purchases. At a $5 CPM, 10000 visitors a month with an average of 5 view each will earn $250.

4. Flat Rate
The advertiser pays a fixed price to display ad for a period of time. This is popular among smaller publishers and advertisers because it is the simplest model with very predictable earning/expense. Publishers present their website metrics (page views, audience reports, CTRs) to the advertisers and name their advertising rates. Advertisers consider the pros and cons and make a decision to purchase an ad space for a period of time, often one calendar month at a time. Rates depend on the expected impressions, location of the ads, length of time. Since the earning is known, publishers can worry about other areas of their website. This model allows both publishers and advertisers to budget their fees and predict their profits. For example, an advertiser buys two months worth of advertising on a website with a one-time cost of $1000.

5. Hybrid or Combination of Multiple Models
With an advanced ad server, you can combine multiple pricing models to work for both sides, you and your advertisers. As an example, Flat and CPC means the publisher will have some guaranteed income (Flat) while earning extras on clicks (CPC). The pricing in this case could be arranged as follow: $500 per month plus $1 per click.

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The vital region for the global market was US online advertising market that dropped 7 percent during Q2 year over year. The US online ad market is now worth $6.2 billion in Q2 of 2009, while it was $6.6 billion in the corresponding period last year. The only region that remained positive globally was Asia/Pacific and Japan with slight gains.

The effect of economic crisis on various online advertising like social media, mobile ads and display ads are as follows:
•    Advertisers are shifting their ad budgets from digital media to most proven traditional Medias such as television ads, newspaper ads.
•    The search advertising became a dominant player in the entire Internet advertising. It captured one-third of all annual online ad spending worldwide despite global economic downturn.
•    Display ads will be the next largest tool in online advertising. It is expected to capture 20 percent of all annual ads spending worldwide by 2011, followed by Classified ads with 19 percent.

The factors that support online ad spending:
•    Improved ad budgets
•    High cost for advertising in other medias
•    More companies are including Internet advertising as a part of their total advertising campaign
•    Ad budgets tilt from other medias to Internet

Mobile Internet ad spending will increase $2 billion by 2014 from $500 million in 2009, according to Juniper Research. The main reason behind this is, the growth driven by new markets such as China and India where fixed line Internet access is less. The growing mobile Internet access across the globe irrespective of the economies is likely to fuel the further growth of online ad spending.

However, Internet advertising received only a small portion of marketing budgets in the current season, it is expected to improve in the coming years. In a similar report, GroupM predicts that if the worldwide ad spending reaches to $58.17 billion by the end of 2009, online advertising will be 13.2 percent of total ad spending and it will further increase up to 14.6 percent in 2010.

Because of the global economic crisis, marketers decreased ad budgets to advertise on new social networking. The impact of economic crisis on online advertising industry specifically and the advertising industry overall is expected to continue in 2010 as well. In this period, the traditional media advertising is most likely to be affected than online advertising.

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Other formats such as Classified ads totaled $1,116 million in revenues declined by 4%. Lead generation format revenues totaled $728 million. And E-mail ad revenues totaled $149 million.

About Pricing models ad revenues
According to the report, Performance based pricing solution is the most prevalent pricing model since 2006 that maintained a strong sequential growth rate. It is followed by CPM/Impression based pricing, which declined as a percentage of revenue over the past several years. Hybrid pricing model has seen the greatest loss in percentage revenue, dipping sharply from 17% in 2004 to 4% in the first six-months of 2009.

In 2004 CPM/Impression based pricing was on top among other solutions with 42% and improved constantly until 2006. However, since 2007, it declined continuously. Moreover, Performance based pricing solution simultaneously increased rapidly to clinch the top share. In 2007, Performance based solutions accounted for 57% and CPM pricing solution accounted for 45%.

In the current year for the first half, Performance based pricing accounts 58%, CPM has 38% and Hybrid related solutions have 4% in the total online advertising revenues.

The drop in online advertising revenues shows that economic crisis can also hit online marketing. During this situation, the growth of Performance based pricing solutions shows that customers are closely watching the results and they are not spending the same as earlier.

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To grab this opportunity marketers are using mobile websites to reach the customers. Mobile websites are different, as they are designed to fit the small screens of mobile devices such as cell phones that can access Internet. It makes a good business sense to launch mobile websites for car dealerships, which provide many advantages when compared to traditional mobile marketing.

Instant connectivity to customers
Mobile websites provide instant connectivity to customers, as anyone can access from hand held mobile devices. This feature will allow dealer’s instant connectivity to customers as they can be utilized anywhere and any time to view inventory, locate dealership, or to contact dealer’s sales or service team. A dealer can update the inventory, pricing and photographs of a car desired by the customer in real time, so that the customer can view that immediately on the move.

Customer feedback and surveys
According to the study, nearly 70 percent of automotive Internet users use consumer-generated content while shopping for a new vehicle. Dealerships can get customers’ feedback on their products and services using mobile websites in a simple and hassle free way. They can know the customer’s requirements as the mobile websites help in conducting simple on-line surveys that reach customers’ mobile phones. They reduce cost, improve the speed of the survey and provide added customer convenience. Dealers can get immediate alerts on customer dissatisfaction.

Service reminders
Mobile websites help in notifying the service updates directly to the customer’s mobile phones. Dealers can reduce costs by replacing the call centers with mobile websites. They can alert the customers in real time when their vehicles are ready to for delivery.

Marketing on personal media
Auto dealers can market their vehicles or products directly and effectively to their target customers through the mobile phone. They can send information such as special offers, best deals, new arrivals etc along with graphics directly to the customer’s mobile phone. Marketing through mobile websites ensures maximum reach and penetration of the dealer’s car promotions and sales proposals increasing the overall conversion rates.

Today, many potential buyers and existing customers like to be well informed about the product before visiting the auto showroom. Providing this information through a multimedia mobile website on their personal mobile devices is far more effective rather than a mere text message or a phone call from the call center. The car dealers with a mobile website definitely have an edge to stay ahead in the present competitive market when compared to dealers without it.

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There are a number of different business signs San Diego consumers may find easy on the eyes and attractive to look at. When the signs banners El Cajon businesses put up are interesting to look at and make customers remember them that is half the marketing battle won. Promoting brand recognition and product familiarity is part of what marketing people are supposed to do and when you have signs that are easy to remember and good to look at, this helps you and your company in more ways than you can actually imagine.

The business signs San Diego marketing mavens use for their companies and their clients often make people want to see what the product is, what the company can offer them, and why these companies seem to be drawing them in. Lovely signs that promote curiosity and make people want to try out the products or the services that such a company has means that these signs are effective in what they are supposed to be doing. Signs banners El Cajon residents may see outside restaurants and malls may prompt them to drop in and see what kind of food or merchandise these establishments have simply because the signs either intrigues them or the beautifully made signs seem to be an indication of how good things may taste or will be inside these stores.

The designs of these business signs San Diego businesses use and the signs banners El Cajon establishments sport outside their doors and buildings are often well thought out and well made by sign manufacturers who know how important advertising and signage is to a business. This is why making the right kind of signs that will fit the kind of community these signs will be in as well as considering the kind of establishment it will be representing is important. Finding the right sign maker that understands this need and the importance of this need is crucial to the making of the kinds of signs that are effective. Not all sign makers can meet the standards that some companies demand therefore finding the right sign maker for the job is equally important to be able to come up with the right signs to help business boom for you and your company.

With the increasing competition in the world of global market, the companies have started feeling the necessity of a websites for them. Today everyone is very well aware of the essential need of the websites. To company can show the courage of withstanding the tremendous pressure in the field of websites. The websites are the basic requirements for the survival of any business today and to register its appearance all over the world.

Primarily a businessman or a business organization requires the service of a professional website designer. It is the role of a website designer to develop a wonderfully designed and highly developed website. It is his efficiency and sincere efforts that make a website appear on the internet. The more efficient and devoted the designer is the more beautiful the work is. An experienced designer is an asset in the industry of website designing.

The designer plays a very vital role in the entire process of creating a website and making it appear on the internet. He leads the entire process and takes care of all the points related with the website however slight or unimportant it may be. A website that is designed and developed by . A web designer is an asset for the company or website as the quality of the website entirely rests on his shoulders.

Obviously, the role of a website designer is the most important part of the existence of the website on the internet and accessible from the whole world. The designer carries out the following responsibilities in the making of a website:

It is the responsibility of the website designers to understand the requirements of the clients in the clear-cut manner. He must try to understand the what his client wants in the website.

He must help his clients to have clear conception of the application of the website that he wants to get for his company.

It is the responsibility of the designer to provide all the applications in the website that his client wants to see in his website.

It is the part and parcel of the job of the website designer to be very efficient to create all the required applications in website which is mentioned in the work order.

It will be of great help for the designer to have a discussion with the client on any topic or issue that arises during the period in which the website is getting developed. It will help him to rectify his concepts in the website designing.

After the job of designing the website, the designer must stay in close contact with clients as this will help the client to find more contacts for his job.

The designer must brief the client about the ins and outs of the website after it gets fully developed.

It is the legal duty of the designer to provide free assistance to the clients for one year. He must provide technical assistance to the website as and when the assistance is felt by the client.

It is of prime importance for the website designer to have a very good and co-operative attitude with the clients as they will help them in the future to get more contacts from them.

The designer must keep all options open in front of him as far as making rectifications in the different places in the website.

The role of the website designer is very challenging and this challenge will increase with the passage of time. It is, therefore, the need of the hour to adopt the better designers to get your work completed quickly and easily.

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You business do have a variety of communication tools available in this regard. With that noted, at the heart of these resources and tools will be your business logo. On so many different levels your logo is the front door through which new and existing clients or customers will walk to carry out business with you.

Your Logo and Your Business Communication Essentials

Your logo plays a key role in regard to all of the communication fundamentals connected with your business.  For example, business cards and letterhead are vital to the operation and promotion of any business.  You need to keep in mind that even when engaging in the most important forms of business related communication it is imperative that you make a solid presentation.

Your logo also needs to play a role in emails that are sent out on behalf of your business.  Certainly, if you are like most businesses today a majority of your communication is undertaken via email at this point in time.

Soon in this article you will be presented with more information regarding to how your logo is a resource and tool that interconnects ideally with your online promotional and marketing efforts.

Essential for Your Marketing Campaigns

A responsible and proactive business owner develops, implements and follows a complete and coordinated marketing plan.  Once again, your business’s logo is a powerful resource and tool associated (underpinning, really) your overall marketing efforts.

As you go about developing and implementing your marketing plan you need to pay particular attention to how you can best incorporate your professional logo into these endeavors.  You will want to do this in such a manner so that your logo furthers your brand identity through all of your marketing programs.

Essential for your Internet Presence

As noted previously, your logo also is a vital tool when it comes to the presence of your business on the Internet.  The Internet is becoming an ever more competitive arena.  Therefore, it is vital that you do everything humanly possible to create and then maintain a truly competitive edge.

Your logo really does represent the most elementary (and utterly powerful) tool available to you through which you can enhance the presence of your enterprise on the Net and to further brand identity with individuals who seek products or services on the Internet marketplace.

Your Logo and the Media

In this day and age you undoubtedly are paying very close attention to the bottom line of your business.  Maintaining a responsible and yet effective marketing budget is of paramount importance during these particularly challenging economic times.

Experts in the field of media relations are universally encouraging their clients to take full advantage of “free press opportunities.”  By this it is meant that both online and in the brick and mortar world a business has the ability to utilize practices such as the regular issuance of press releases and so forth to promote their business ventures.

It is absolutely necessary for you to understand completely that this important – and extremely cost effective tactic – can only work if you make a professional presentation.  For example, if you issue a press release to the media about some aspect of your business enterprise, that release needs not only needs to be professionally written it needs to be thoroughly professional in its appearance.

Therefore, your company’s logo is essential to the initiation and pursuit of an effective media relations campaign.  Your logo will convey to the media at large the professionalism and reputability of your business enterprise.

Final Lines

While you must have an assortment of meaningful, powerful communication tools in the arsenal of your business enterprise, the one resource that you cannot do without is an appropriate, custom logo.  Understanding the many ways in which your logo can be of use in developing a successful business, you need to consider seriously engaging the services of a reputable, experienced and creative logo design firm to provide your business what it must have in this regard.  Anything less will leave you with less – less visibility, fewer clients or customers … and lower profits.

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A lot of small businesses and groups want to send out mailers but they don’t have access to a graphic designer or they can’t afford the services of one (though it is my opinion that you can’t afford not to use the services of a good graphic designer) so they design the piece themselves (A WARNING label should be attached to the file for the poor printer who receives a file in a Word document) and that almost never works out OR they decide to just not pursue the direct mail piece out of frustration.

A simple solution to this problem is finding an online site like www.gagepress.com that offers free pre-designed postcards.  With these design templates all you have to do is add your text to their design.  Companies that offer this type of service usually offer several categories to choose from, so finding a design to your liking just requires you to choose from the samples.  Here is a list of categories:

Arts and Entertainment

Beauty and Health

Building and Construction

Home Maintenance

Personal Services

Real Estate and Insurance

Religious

Retail and Sales

Travel

Technology and Communication

You can feel secure that the artwork will look great and you get to determine what the cards say.  Most companies offer this service for free, so look around to make sure you are not paying for the design.  You will also get the opportunity to approve the postcard and make sure it says exactly what you want it to say.

If you are a small business, non-profit group, church group, budget conscious or just want to take advantage of a free postcard design template, check this service out.  You can save money and look good doing it.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact me through www.gagepress.com.

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