Archive for the ‘Publishers’ Category

How to Sell Ads Online > Provide a Self-Service Ad Management System (3/7)

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

This is the third part of the How to Sell Ads Online series. To run an ad campaign, advertisers (small and large) need to go through the following processes -  strategic planning, creative development,  media planning, media buying, ad trafficking, performance tracking, optimization (a/b testing), and reporting. Now, this is how it affects you. Related posts:Crenk.com Feature: Trafficspaces – the Self Service Ad ...

How to Sell Ads Online > Hire a Dedicated Sales Person (2/7)

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

This is the second part of the How to Sell Ads Online series. A good sales rep is worth their weight in gold. However, how do you know if it’s appropriate to hire one, how to hire one, and when to do the hiring. When to hire First of all, don't hire a ...

How to Sell Ads Online > Have an Outstanding Product to Sell (1/7)

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

This is the first part of the How to Sell Ads Online series. You need to make sure you have something to sell. Your product is your audience so you need to clearly define who they are and why they are a right fit for advertisers. Ideally, you should also have the ad targeting ...

How to Sell Ads Online

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Need advice on how to sell ads online directly to advertisers? Then this series of guides and recommendations is perfect for you. In each guide, we'll list some action points for you and explain the effect they can have on potential advertisers. Hopefully by the time we are done, you will have ...

The Free Trafficspaces Package is now available

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

As most of you already know, we launched Trafficspaces to give publishers more control on how to manage their ad inventory. Since then, we have received tons of emails about our free 7 day trial and suggestions on how to make the platform serve you better. We've been asked frequently to ...

How to Set Your Ad Prices Via a Real-time Auction Like Google and Facebook

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Chris Petersen has a successful blog. He generates millions of page views monthly, which he currently monetizes with Google AdSense and a couple of other ad networks. He also gets about 10 - 20 emails from advertisers every day. Requests range from "Send me your price list (or rate card ...

Techcrunch Switches to Self-Service Ad Platform and Validates Trafficspaces’ Business Model.

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Today, a friend of mine sent me a link to an article that confirms that Techcrunch, the leading tech blog, has decided to dump its long term ad partner in favour of a self-serve ad platform.This is great news because it validates what we've always believe in - self-serve ad ...

How to Use Coupons and Discounts to Increase Ad Sales

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

One of our stated goals at Trafficspaces is to make it easy for publishers to convert more advertisers. Today, we've taken one step further in achieving that goal by providing support for discounts and coupons (promo codes). Coupons Promotional Codes are extremely popular online. They offer a huge incentive to shoppers. They ...

Selling Ads on a Monthly/Weekly Sponsorship Basis

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

In addition to traditional CPM and CPC ad sales, the sponsorship monetization model is gaining massive popularity. Blogs from Techcrunch to Perez Hilton, to CNN  and Youtube  sell some of their ads on a sponsorship basis. The sponsorship model usually has two key attributes - a minimum time period and an incremental time ...

The Trafficspaces Business Model Explained

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

                         Over the last 4 - 6 months, we have had several discussions with many of you about Trafficspaces' business model. A lot of suggestions were made on how to adapt it to the changing business environment. The consensus was that a completely free service is not sustainable and that charging publishers commissions ...