I am trying to start a small magazine that is marketed to the age groups 18-45. It is mostly a literary Journal, that involves readers with feedback and interactive sections.\n\nTrouble is, I am in a small conservative community and I am having a hard time getting businesses to trust me. What makes you want to buy ad space? What would make you never buy ad space in a magazine/paper etc.\n\nWhat offers would entice you to buy: Half off ad. 25% off for three months. Free placement on our site, etc.\n\nWhat made you buy in the past?
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They are probably very concerned about the content of your magazine.  Why don't you have a sample issue run up and show it to them?  \n\nUnfortunately, when buying ad space circulation numbers are very important.  If you already have subscribers, you need to share the number with your potential advertising clients.  Additionally, the cost is probably going to make a difference.  Have you thought about throwing in some sort of added benefit.  Something like...advertise with me for 6 months and I will give you a free full page ad for the 7 month.  Good luck!  P. S. -- What area are you in?
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I've tried many so called "opportunities" in the past in which I had to pay money to get involved only to find out that I had to give more money to stay involved.\n\nI have been involved with this company about a month and I like it very much. There are NO sign-on, enrollment, maintenance, or other hidden fees at all. That's very impressive to me. I finally found a company that gives you free enrollment, free website, free accounting software, and free support.\n\nIf your interested in this rare opportunity, please e-mail me and I will set you up today and you can start your business today.
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its a good looking site!\ni was in the same boat as you a few weeks back. i was so annoyed at the cost of advertising i decided to run my own classifieds website. the address is http://onequidadverts.com and is for both usa and uk users registration is free but advertising is a hell of a lot cheaper than most popular sites.\nmines a fairly new site but has been submitted to google and such like and my site traffic is moving at a steady pace so far.\nits worth a look and im submitting to more and more sites everyday so 100's of people a day will see your classified ads too.\nthere is an internet section you can advertise in for just $2 ( which is about £1.20 odd) for 7 days there are other price plans too.\ngoodluck mate
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The first step is to prepare a media kit detailing your demographics (the more stats, the better in terms of breakdown of who your audiences are), your rate card and why advertisers should advertise on your site.\n\nHere are what advertisers are looking for when choosing sites to use for their advertising:\n\n1. Who are the visitors = It is important for advertisers to know whether your site's visitors are what they are after. More than just traffic numbers, they want to know whether they can get targeted traffic from your website. They want to know whether the customers they want are visiting your site.\n\n2. Traffic levels = Advertisers will often ask you how many visitors/pageviews/uniques you get in a month. Some will go to Alexa.com to check your traffic standing (not accurate, but many see it as a good guide). If you are selling banners through CPM rates for example, they will normally ask you how long it will take you to show the 20,000 ad impressions they ordered (or how many they ordered).\n\n3. Your rates = how comparable your rates are with others.\n\n4. Customer service = advertisers want QUICK support from sites they want to advertise on. You need to be quick to respond to their emails, whether inquiring for your media kit or asking your ad rates or checking the performance of their ad campaigns.The key to understand is that advertisers will always look for metrics to help them gauge the ROI they can get from advertising in your website. If they don't think your site will not give them a good ROI, they will not advertise or renew their advertising on your site\n\n5. Monitor campaign performance = advertisers want to see how their campaigns are doing on your site, so they can make decisions fairly quickly whether to change the creative, pause the campaign or increase the campaign. You need to be able to provide them with real time statistics. We use phpadsnew and it is just great (and FREE!).\n\nAside from selling advertising directly on your site, you also have these options:\n\n1. Join an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services. \n\nBurst Media http://www.burstmedia.com\nFastclick (ValueClick). http://www.fastclick.com\nAdvertising.com. http://www.advertising.com\nTribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com \n\n2. Participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system. \n\nGoogle Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/\nYahoo! Publishing Network (currently in beta and available to US publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/ \nIntellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm \nQuigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm \nIndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com \nCommission Junction Evolution http://www.cj.com\nKanoodle Brightads http://www.kanoodle.com/about/brightads.html\nClicksor http://www.clicksor.com/affiliate_programs.php \nContextweb http://www.contextweb.com/ \nBidclix http://www.bidclix.com/  \nBidvertiser http://www.bidvertiser.com/
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I have rented commercial space and there are some questions that you need to answer for your self:\n1.  What is my budget for this space?\n2. Does my budget include renovating the space to meet my business needs?\n3. What will be the cost of related insurance for the property? What will be the cost of any business license?\n4. Where is the location of my target customer? \n5.  How is my target customer going to reach me? (transportation to site)\n6.  Do I need a road frontage location for visibility or could a strip mall space accommodate my needs?\n7. What size space is the maximum and minimum I could live with?\n8.  Is there an opportunity to lease-option the site, so that if (no when) I get my business going well, I could consider purchasing the real estate?\n9.  When you find a site: who are your neighbors?\n\nGood luck with your business.  I am not a Realtor, but a mortgage lender in 38 states.  Please e-mail me if you need a referral in your area or would consider purchasing a commercial space and have questions.
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I know how you feel. I'm in the current process of setting up a website just based on this. So stay tuned.\n\nBasically go around forums asking people. But you will find that there will always be people happy with the service and others not. \n\nIt is hard to know whether or not these people are simply plugging their own company posing as neutral people or not. \n\nSo in the end, asking people at a conference perhaps may be the best way - as you can tell if they are straight out lying.\n\nAlso books can be good too: but I've seen some books recently that plug their own products too - without you knowing!
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I didn't see your previous post or site before changes.  Site looked good and was easy to navigate.  Question: what will be the appeal to buy from your online store?  price, selection, specialty?  I thought the price for bed canopy was good for instance, and might purchase one.  But otherwise, people searching for gifts, home decor, what?  It doesn't seem to fit the "backyard" theme to me.\nAs for the donation, there's no way I'd do it with so little information about who it goes to and how.  It could be a padding for your good cause pocket for all we know.\nJust my thoughts - Good luck!
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Do a survey to see if people in your community would be interested - FIRST make a small sample of what your sports news paper or magazine would look like - show it and ask if they felt this would be something the community would be interested in - mention how much the subscription price would be.\n\nIf enough people are interested - Go for it! Just be sure to tally your expenses so you can estimate a fair price for your sports rag. You do want some kind of profit, I'm sure.\n\nI wish you lots of luck.
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Some start at 25 dollars but it depends on how bad someone wants the comic. Some people may want the comic just for the purpose of having it and some people may just want to read and thats might not trigger them into buying something people can read online. You do know that people scan these things just so for the purpose of putting people like you who want money out of biz?
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If you believe that people will BUY your product on-line, just try it. \n\nGet started at \nhttp://www.google.com/ads/\n\nConsider a low budget at first, then increase it as needed after a few weeks.  Be patient and watch what happens.
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If you are buying URLs for resale, it would depend on "to whom" you wish to sell.\n\nIf you are buying URLs for your own use - for your own business -- consider the following:\n\nSelecting short, easy to remember URLS are best\n\nAvoid difficult to spell URLs\n\nAvoid dashes, underlines or other additions that require you to say "that's website (spelled w-e-b-s-i-t-e) for you (spelled with the number four and the letter U) dot com. If you have to spell it out or explain it, it's all wrong.\n\nYour URL should contain at least one of your key terms for the planned site more if possible (without sacrificing brevity).\n\nSomething Catchy that "sticks" is best -- especially if it helps brand your site.\n\nDo market research to be sure that there aren't other URLs and business names out there that are too close to your own.\n\nGrab the .com, the .net and the .org for any primary URLs you plan to use, grab the other extensions as you have time, money and the desire.\n\nBuy at www.godaddy.com -- they have a great price, a good, easy-to-use management panel and offer excellent customer service when needed. (I recommend GoDaddy to all my clients for this reason).
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In our website, we sell advertising space - both banners via CPM, sponsored text links, and newsletter advertising. In our experience, here are what advertisers are looking for when choosing sites to use for their advertising:\n\n1. Who are the visitors = It is important for advertisers to know whether your site's visitors are what they are after. More than just traffic numbers, they want to know whether they can get targeted traffic from your website. They want to know whether the customers they want are visiting your site.\n\n2. Traffic levels = Advertisers will often ask you how many visitors/pageviews/uniques you get in a month. Some will go to Alexa.com to check your traffic standing (not accurate, but many see it as a good guide). If you are selling banners through CPM rates for example, they will normally ask you how long it will take you to show the 20,000 ad impressions they ordered (or how many they ordered).\n\n3. Your rates = how comparable your rates are with others.\n\n4. Customer service = advertisers want QUICK support from sites they want to advertise on. You need to be quick to respond to their emails, whether inquiring for your media kit or asking your ad rates or checking the performance of their ad campaigns.The key to understand is that advertisers will always look for metrics to help them gauge the ROI they can get from advertising in your website. If they don't think your site will not give them a good ROI, they will not advertise or renew their advertising on your site\n\n5. Monitor campaign performance = advertisers want to see how their campaigns are doing on your site, so they can make decisions fairly quickly whether to change the creative, pause the campaign or increase the campaign. You need to be able to provide them with real time statistics. We use phpadsnew and it is just great (and FREE!).\n\nAs to what rate to charge, the amount depends on a number of factors:\n\n- Who is your audience and how desirable is your audience to the advertisers? If your audience are techies or those who have the propensity to purchase higher-ticket items, then you can charge a higher price as compared to an audience of students.\n\n- What is the rate of comparative websites in your niche? You don't want to overprice yourself out of the market yet you don't want to undercharge as well\n\n- What is the rate advertisers are willing to pay in your site? You may charge $5 per CPM and yet for months nobody's taking you on the rate even though you may get inquiries -- this implies that advertisers think your rate is too expensive. But if you charge $0.50 per CPM and advertisers are flooding in, then you may be too cheap and can afford to increase your rate.\n\n- What is the CPM you get from other advertising vehicles? Do you run Google Adsense, and if so, what is your effective CPM rate with them? Or if you run banner ads through ad networks like Burst Media, Valueclick or Tribal Fusion, what is the CPM you're getting? You can use those values to help you gauge your rate.\n\nSince you're just starting in the game, experiment and see what rate the market will bite. You can start at $1 per CPM and see how it goes.\n\nIn terms of accepting payment, majority (99.8%) of those who will advertise will pay by credit card so make sure you have your own merchant account as well as Paypal.
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Advertising is important- whether you are  a 12 months old business or a 10 year business.\n\nYou should constantly be looking to increase your profit and getting the word out about you. Even mircosoft advertise and look how long they have been going for.
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Yeah I see what you mean.  \nPersonally I would click on the "Advertise in this space" link and make my complaint via that.  You can bet they will read it if they think its gonna get them some more money!
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You really want to think about the demographics for your website and then figure out what established websites have similar demographics.  If your website is for a general demographic, then you want to think about which demographic would likely respond most favorably to your ad in order to get the most for the price.  If you provide more info about your website content and demographics, then I can offer more info on specific websites to consider.  Good luck!
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I think 1 ad is enough,And put ads in your article\nthen you will get more money
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think it may be fun then decide there is not enough time for fun.  Link sounds interesting though and a good way to promote membership.  Are you in advertising? If not should be.