I would love to hear your opinion on this question and why.  My friend and I are thinking about starting a business and were wondering which avenue for advertisements we should go through.  Thank in advance for your answers.
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For general advertisements, I much prefer text links to click on.  They are quicker to load and if I am playing my own music or running other software, they don't interfere.  I will steer clear of all flash and audio advertisements because they tend to disrupt what I am currently doing.\n\nI do prefer picture advertisements when considering buying a product, as long as they don't take too long to load (you know the type, the huge pictures that take an hour to appear on screen).  \n\nI would suggest definately staying away from audio as the audio ad's are just plain annoying.  Flash ad's, while cool looking, aren't compatible with all systems and can be annoying as well.\n\nSometimes keeping things simple and easy to use, easy to see, and easy to understand...is the best way to go.  Fancy is not always better.
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Check out http://www.hammocksurvivalguide.com/\nIt's got some great articles on advertising and marketing.
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What business are most interested about when choosing the right advertising media is Cost per thousand and return on investment. \n\nQuestions they will want answered are:\n\n1.What time is the program and days of the week?\n2.What station/s will be showing the program? \n3.Reach? (Ratings?) – how many people will watch the program. \n4.Cost per thousand – how much will it cost for their advertisement to reach one thousand people.\n5.Sponsors already involved?\n6.Credentials?\n7.And of course, offer them a great discount package, such as 6000usd for 12 30second ads (your base rate being 600usd). \n8.Offer product placements.
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Advertisment is one of the main reasons people make websites for.\nMySpace has ALOT of advertisments, and each pays him pretty much "good".\nYahoo bought myspace and Tom isn't the real owner by now, he had a deal with yahoo and he'll still be the web developer and update everything him self with the yahoo staff.
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Ways to adapt it as far as what?  I teach newborn massage myself, and use it in conjunction with my doula clients if they want to use this technique, and I also am a Happiest Baby Educator.  If you mean as far as advertising there are places on the net that you could advertise your services, and also whatever organization you are certifying through may have options for advertising.
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No matter where you are in the world, people want the same things.Sadly, these are primarily to be richer (or at least appear richer) and look better. So any advert which offers these things will be effective. The main differences in the markets would be in how the message is put across. Overtly sexy images might be offensive in some cultures, for instance.
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Why don't you try joining a Forum. I've been involved with one I can recommend relating to business ventures, like advertising, linking etc.. There are also usually threads there relating to traffic options.\nThe site is http://www.warriorforum.com/forum\nIt is quick, free and easy to join.\nThey have given me several suggestions in the past.\nLike answering yahoo answers.\nHope this helps,\nJames
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There are several women in my church who are in business for themselves cleaning homes and offices.  Their best advertisement is word of mouth.  I have not used their services, mainly because I don't know what they cost.  I don't like haggling or even rejecting people because their fees are too high, but it's something I definitely would like to take advantage of.  Perhaps you can offer some 'first time customer' and referral specials.  Because the person will be coming into my home, I wouldn't hire someone without a personal recommendation from someone I trust.\n\nAnd for the record, I strongly recommend NOT putting flyers on people's cars.  First of all, there are local laws that sometimes prohibit that (I know - I campaigned for one in my town).  Secondly, I get VERY annoyed when someone takes the liberty of touching my car.  That is a surefire way  to get me riled up enough to not only NOT use the services being advertised, but to make sure all my friends know how inconsiderate the business is as well.  My car is one of the prizes I've worked hard for - don't mess with it!
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Here's the obvious answer.  If you use product placement, you limit the number of businesses competing to advertise in your air time.  \n\nIf you limit the number of busiesses (food product businesses)competing for your advertising air you'll reduce the amount you can charge per minute of advertising air time.\n\nSo, I'd speculate they are making the wise business choice of letting competition keep their advertising prices at a higher premium.
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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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I've been earning via advertising on the Web since 1999. In my website, we have our own advertisers (aside from Google Adsense and banner ads) and they pay us for posting their banners by CPM and by text links (sponsored links at monthly flat fee).\nIn 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!).
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no!\nbut a nice way to advertise..
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If it crosses the line of being compensated, or asking for business, it crosses the line of spamming.\n\nIf this is not policed, soon it will become an online Advertizing campaign, instead of a question and answer board.\n\nI do Real Estate and Loans.  I answer questions sometimes in those sections.  But I don't ask for business.  Many times I don't even say it's my profession.  \n\nWe all want to make money in life. But this forum is not the place to ask.  At least not advertently.
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Hi, I have no experience with this but I've found two sites that may help in starting up your business.\n\nGood luck!
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i have a website in advertising and marketing. i own my \ninternet business and website. "my web cash system>\nhere is one great website i use to advertise my ad and it is free\nunlimited. well it was a month ago when i signed up. i think it still is. www.linkreferral.com. good luck!
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here is my answer with thanks to Roy H. Williams Nicknamed "the Wizard of Ads" i have editted some of the contents though\n\nOutdoor advertising/billboards: this reached out to more people but are limited to a picture and usually no more than eight words. \n\nRadio: Reaches the second most people for a dollar, however it can only be loosely demographically targeted. \n\nCable television: offering the impact of moving images as well as spoken words. It can be targeted geographically \n\nBroadcast television: Big prestige. Big bucks. But is able to target psychographic profiles. do note to buy specific shows and never to buy a rotator. \n\nNewspapers: Reach customers who are in the market to buy today. Unfortunately, people not currently in the market for your product or service are less likely to notice your ad than if it had appeared in another media. \n\nMagazines: may be expensive, but high-impact with tight targeting. Weakness is infrequency of repetition. \n\nDirect mail: Highly targeted, all the way down to the level of the individual but it is not cheap. \n\nYellow Pages: for customers who has yet to make up his or her mind.\n\nhope this helps =)
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I MEAN I WANT TO OPEN A BUSINESS SOON AND I ALREADY HAD THE BUSINESS PLAN TOGETHER, I ALSO HAD THE APPLICATIONS AND MENU. I HAVE EVERYTHING BUT THE BUSINESS. I WAS LOOKING FOR A BUSINESS PARTNER BUT I STOPPED SO IF U ARE INTERESTED. LET ME KNOW...................