Contextual Ad Blunder of The Day – Murder-Suicide.

April 27th, 2009 · 4:39 pm  →  Advertising Articles

Probably on the list of words ( and the combination of words ) that should be banned/omitted on a contextual ads campaign. I searched for these words on Google to find the recent murder-suicide of the family over the weekend, and here is the goldmine I found on Google News: Well, there you have it. [...]

Advertising/Marketing Success & Efficiency: Seeding Your Ads & Campaign

March 28th, 2009 · 6:34 pm  →  Advertising Articles Branding & Image

And when we begin advertising a product, telling people that the product exists and that one should trade its money ( or other assets ) for it, many people have expectation that their hard work will show direct success. One of the biggest problems with measuring success is that in all honestly, other than revenue [...]

Craigslist Gets A Lotta Love In Japan

March 20th, 2009 · 5:13 am  →  Advertising Articles Websites

And so my ADD journey began this lovely evening ( or as far as I can remember ) with a click and a screen loading a CNN story about a Japanese forest notorious for its suicides. This was a compelling story, one of many sobering accounts of grief that have been reported due to the [...]

Why Facebook Advertising Solutions Suck!

March 19th, 2009 · 3:21 pm  →  Advertising Articles Websites

I am just coming off a fresh battle with a lot of people on the issue of the new Facebook design. Everywhere I went, I was preaching the gospel of Facebook, and wave of Zuckerberg angst was strong on all fronts. Although I can say without any doubt that Facebook did an amazing job with [...]

The March Madness Comprehensive Contest List

March 19th, 2009 · 12:29 pm  →  Advertising Articles

*Oddsmakers site are not usually free. ESPN Tournament Challenge click here for The challenge. Upickem National March Madness Contest brackets contest page. Bracketology XD Penthouse Pet Contest Just click here. Bookmaker ( oddsmaker ) Click here if you have the definite winner. Faniq Win a WII. Click here FoxSports Hooters Contests Best free contest from [...]

WordPress Function Idea: Making Comments Better

March 19th, 2009 · 8:51 am  →  Advertising Articles Websites

I just read an article on WordPress on how a girl who was recently hired by Cisco was fired for talking jibber-jabber about her new employer. I had made a comment on the subject, but had seen that my comment had sunk to the bottom of all the chaos. As you can tell, my site [...]

Myhusbandneedsajob – One Scary Thought about The Matter

March 15th, 2009 · 9:10 pm  →  Advertising Articles Branding & Image

I was reading this CNN article of a woman whose husband has been searching for a new job for months. A quote that struck me instantly: Then an idea came to her: Why not make him stand out by starting a Web site devoted to helping him find a job? She used her tax refund [...]

Affiliate Sign-ups: The Difference Between CPA and Rev Share

March 15th, 2009 · 7:16 pm  →  Advertising Articles Uncategorized

When you sign up with an affiliate, they soemtimes offer contracts based on how much money you would want to make off of their service. If services are subscribing to something continually or constantly extending a contract ( such as casino gambling, magazines, adult websites etc. ), they will give you one of two options: [...]

The McDonalds Filet-O-Fish Commercial Video and Creators

March 15th, 2009 · 5:42 am  →  Advertising Articles Big Time Advertising Branding & Image

Do not tell me that you haven’t been affected by this video. The advertising agency Arnold has done its job; it created a huge buzz with the whole campaign, and people are loving it! Even more proof of this ad’s success, there are a bunch of people who are reacting negatively to the ad. People [...]

Facebook Ads ( Do They Suck? )

February 26th, 2009 · 6:56 am  →  Advertising Articles

There use to be a time when Facebook developed a decent adspace product called Facebook Flyers. It was a really cheap impression-based function to showcase anything you wanted within your “college” area. For $5, you received 10,000 impressions in your college, and could add other colleges to the mix as well. Here is a non-html [...]