Questions regarding promotion of business' product or service to potential clients.
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Adsense or Adbrite?
I am considering choosing between these two. Does anyone have any experience with Adbrite?. What are the pros and cons?
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Do you go for the Quality or Quantity approach in your social media activities?
How many social network profiles should I have and in how many groups should I participate? What is your approach?
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How do I price website advertisements?
We want to start selling ad space on our niche website, however are unsure at what factors make up the ad price.
We will start offering ad space once we are getting 3k-5k visitors per month. Based on ...
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Which websites successfully make money just from ads?
I'm wondering how many websites are actually successful at making money purely off ads. Clearly the search engines do, but apart from them can you point out specific sites which have successful ...
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What are the best and/or cheapest online/offline methods you've found for driving traffic to your website?
I raised a query in another question about Facebook ads and someone suggested to focus elsewhere on acquiring customers and use Facebook to engage and maintain relationships.
So that got me ...
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Ok to run adverts on competitors website?
One of our competitors runs Google adverts on their website. We've debated running an advert via the Google network on that site. We're in two minds about it:
It's going to be amazingly highly ...
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Resources for creating an effective landing page
What are your favorite websites for learning about or building effective landing pages for online advertising? How should these pages relate to your main site?
I'm a software programming geek that ...
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Generating income from websites
We have a website that lets companies advertise their courses and lessons for free. We currently have adsense on the site to generate income, but this income will not cover the cost of the next ...
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Has anyone ever used one of the buy Facebook fan sites?
I just set up a Facebook page for a totally new business along with a teaser page. The Facebook page is looking a little lost. I still have some work to do to spruce it up and give it a little more ...
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Best companies offering good looking advertising online to include in webpages?
Does anyone have experience with serious companies offering good looking advertising to put on web pages. I am thinking about something like Google adsense, but the typical advert is really ugly:
I ...
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What role do you see QR codes playing in marketing?
Those funny square codes seem to be popping up everywhere.
From the pages of USA Today as a hyper-link to news pictures, in the airport to download reading material after watching a bank ...
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How do you get your Startup featured on national television news?
I am wondering if anyone has any advice on how to get your startup featured on TV?
I have had some success getting written about on some blogs, but nothing that non startup / tech people would see.
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Are software download sites generating sales?
I sell a software which I registered with some download sites. They generate a lot of traffic in downloading and distributing the demo but don't generate much visitors or sales in relation to this. My ...
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Most ideas have already been done, do you stand a chance with a good execution and a high quality product?
My friends and I have been brainstorming lot of ideas in the past month or so. We spent two days to discuss one idea, searched it on web, checked different options, made a rough design and then we ...
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Who are the largest Facebook advertisers?
I don't want to be so direct here, but
In this article does anyone have a clue about which company/companies could it be talking about when it says: I’m not going to out you, but you know who you ...
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Placing Ads in highly targeted email
I run a mail service for a particular community of users. This email system goes far beyond an occasional email to a basic mailing list - it is the fabric that holds the community together. I would ...
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Distribution to expect from a “powered by” for a SaaS service integrated on other websites?
we are working on a saas application.
Say it is a SaaS for small size businesses, that will integrate our Saas on their websites and will get immediate value out of it.
We plan to create a basis free ...
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Company Showcasing: Do Recruiters have the need to showcase work/ projects of their organizations while promoting company to potential candidates? [closed]
Do Recruiters have the need to showcase the work/ projects of their organizations while promoting their company to the potential candidates ?
If this showcasing is required, through what means is ...
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Besides Adwords and SEO, how do you advertise an international customer support service?
Given that you want to provide quality computer support for customers in the US remotely, via online chat, phone and screen sharing solutions, how would you go about advertising such service among ...
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What is the hourly rate of a freelance marketing consultant?
I am in a start up with very limited financial liquidity (less than $10,000)
I reached a stage where my online store is taking shape, I have a stock of product now and enough to start a sales team. I ...
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How much money to spend on successful advertising?
If you are spending money on measurable advertising (ie. CPC) and you know that the return on investment is worthwhile (ie. the revenue generated by converted users is greater than the amount spent on ...
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CPC v/s CPM Which one is better
So i have got investors for my website(say), and in order to pay them back ( :P ) i have to start making revenues from the very first day i guess, and i heard about these two methods:
CPC AND CPM
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What is the difference between advertising and marketing?
What is the difference between advertising and marketing?
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How can I display ads in the language of the country of origin?
I have a website which receives over half of its traffic from non-English speaking countries and websites. However, I only have Google Adsense and (from what I know) it only displays advertisements in ...
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Invest in best possible SEO rather than using AdWords?
From stratup MicroISV perspective, the way I look at the possibilities for advertising, it's much better, as a long-term strategy, to invest and work on the best SEO possible for your web site rather ...
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Advertisment on startup is a good idea or not?
As everyone knows that in the beginning days of startups everyone tries to lay low on the cash flow so my question here is that is it a good idea to have ads on the startups(websites)? And if the ...
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How do I attract users to an empty website so that they can add content?
I have started a website that I believe will be very useful, however it requires the public to report their own experiences. The problem is that when people visit the site they see that it doesn't ...
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Integrating my project with facebook
What if i want to integrate my online website with facebook?
By integrating i mean, there would be a link on facebook that will take the user to my website directly but i am not talking about ...
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How much money can you make per click and how many people click?
For non-search web businesses, using a turnkey advertising solution, like Google Adsense, how much do websites really make each time someone clicks, and what percentage of visitors click?
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Revenues generated through the hits [closed]
I have a website based idea,
now i want to know how do the websites generate revenues, i now one way is the advertising, but then i heard it from someone who said that it depends on the number of hits ...
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Where to advertise a document management software for small businesses?
We sell a document management software designed for small businesses.
I would appreciate any ideas about what would be the best places to advertise such an application to small businesses (assuming ...
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What is the size of Advertising market in India?
Does any one know the size of Advertising market in India(2011) and what is the share of different mediums(tv, radio, internet, mobile)?
Thanks
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Marketing suggestions for a small startup?
I am interested in starting a small (to start with at least) software company. The Software I would be selling would be add-ons to Microsoft SharePoint. While I am skilled technically, I know ...
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How to avoid fake leads coming from AdWords, Facebook Ads and others click based advertising?
I'm experimenting Facebook Ads since a week or two as I got very disappointed by AdWords recently. But Facebook is acting exactly like AdWords.
I suspect that most of leads that come from them (I ...
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Marketing my niche web application
I'm a web developer by trade but I work for a graphic design agency.
I've written a subscription service (I own the code) that allows design studios to track jobs, allocate them to staff and track ...
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Charging for ads based on time they run for?
I was wondering if there is such a thing as "Pay Per Date Run"? - as opposed to Pay Per Click or Pay Per Impression. For example: paying for an ad to run on week 31 - August 1st to August 7th for x ...
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How to monetize established educational site with high volume traffic, good organic content, and high rankings
I have a website over 10 years old with over 300 pp of good organic content (all written by me), and have never advertised before. It's been up as an educational site, but I would now like to monetize ...
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Common ways to advertise music?
I'm trying to begin an indie record label. I already know how to get music onto iTunes and Amazon Music, already have the knowledge to build a site and a general idea of what it should look like, the ...
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What are the best magazines to put an ad seeking for sales&marketing bus. partner on commission basis?
My company developed and validated highly innovative water purification products for residential and commercial applications. What are the best magazines to put an ad seeking for sales&marketing ...
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What is the typical revenue stream expected from Android advertising?
I know this is a broad question (and a sensitive one) but would be interested to know some stats.
If using Google's AdMob service for your android app, can you provide an indication of realised ...
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Is it legal to monetize your browser add-on by changing others advertisements?
I'm about to develop an interesting, from a functional perpective, extension for Chrome but got a lot doubts in terms of how to monetize it.
I was wondering if it's ok from a legal perspective to ...
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How to sell software tools to developers?
I have Windows desktop tools for developers. I have a few large companies that bought them. It is mostly project managers that did the buying and so far they found me via Google search(I have done a ...
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Best Method for Advertising Mobile Application [closed]
We are looking to get the most bang for our buck, what is the best method for marketing our mobile application? Are there services that specialize in marketing for mobile applications? Any ...
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How much do publishers typically pay to run Google DFP (DoubleClick)?
I'm investigating ad serving software. Google has a product, acquired from DoubleClick, called DFP. They've divided it up into a free "small business" version (too small for me) and a premium DFP ...
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How to “market” my web software company?
I have been developing database-driven software since 1996. During the last year I decided to "sell" this software.
I've a lot of source code for a lot of ... customer needs. Starting from help desk ...
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How damaging are ads to product adoption?
Has anyone come across any research or has had experience with just how much more damaging to product/site adoption it is to have ads like AdSense on your site versus not having them?
Any measurable ...
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What to do next? Micro startup existential crisis
I built a small web app based on the freemium model. Free accounts are free forever, paid accounts have 3 tiers: 5, 15 and 25 bucks a month. I'm the only person behind the app, 100% self funded.
The ...
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LLC advertising
I have established an LLC online, but I've been told I need to by law, advertise the LLC's existence in a local/national newspaper. Is this true?
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Podcast Advertising - costs, benefits, and pitfalls?
Have you done any podcast advertising? Or, perhaps investigated it?
I'm very curious to hear about your experience... whether it's on the pricing side or production (i.e. producing your own ...
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How much should I Pay Per Click relative to Lifetime Value of the customer?
For simplicity assume conversion rate is 10%, and margin is 50%. How much should I pay for the visitor in relation to the lifetime value of the customer?
PPC/10% < LTV*50% has to be true, but by ...
