Our First Blog Sponsor

Sep
2007
22

posted by on The Blog, The Net

9 comments

If you haven’t noticed by now you don’t see the Google ads on the blog anymore. They have been replaced by a JohnChow.com ad. The reason for that is he is our first blog sponsor! Well actually second behind Create Business Growth, which has bought a TLA ad on this page for the past 2 months, but John is our first direct advertiser. That means I get 100% commission, no company taking part of what they sell the ad for.

Anyone can tell you that you will make a lot more money by selling ads on your sites direct and it’s true. The reason John bought the ads was I was telling him that Google was not performing well at all on my blog and that I was going to take it off. After I told him how much it was making me he made an offer for the spot and I didn’t hesitate to take it! It was a lot more than what the Google ads would have earned me!

After selling that ad I am thinking about offering a few other ad placements on the blog. I have a few ideas, but I wanted to know what you people thought about that idea. I want to try to roll out the new ad placements by early next month. Although for them to sell I have to keep my posting up! Let me know your thoughts, thanks!

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  • http://www.fatmanunleashed.com/why-john-chow-is-bad-for-blogging Israel

    i will buy spot. contact me and we will set it up if you are open to the idea.

  • http://www.dailywebbers.com/ CyberBoy

    Sounds great! I wish JC could’ve done that for me. :)

  • http://www.leochiang.com Leo

    All John did for me was make me buy a $50 burger :(

  • http://www.webhostingreport.net Christoph

    Good Deal. Try to lock-in long-term rates/contracts to secure the income. On the other spots you might want to use something OpenAds and offer 3-5 spots. You make less per advertiser, but probably more than what 1 single advertiser would pay.

  • http://www.neilduckett.com Neil

    Nice …. must be getting some good traffic from JC too …. a double hit for you i`d say …. paid and getting free advertising on jc`s site!

  • http://www.shaunconnell.com/?page_id=20 Shaun Connell

    Ah, John Chow is amazing. Hehe.

  • http://www.milliondollardig.com Deepk Dutta

    In one of my ten year old site, long before AdSense, I used to run my own adserver to provide click through and impressions stats. I wrote a program in perl ten years ago when I started the site. I then switched to open source php ads (I think they changed to open ad or some thing like that).

    When AdSense started, a sales rep from their New York office used to call me almost every month for placing AdSense on my site. I used to just politely evade him.

    After almost one year I though I would try it. And I did.

    I think I can sell all my ad spaces and get even a little more than what I make from adsense. But it is too much work.

    For AdSense, I don’t have to work on the ad revenue part of the business.

    My experience tell me that running one’s own adserver is lots of work, unless it is completely automated, e.g. advertisers sign up, pay, upload banners or text, and the gets displayed on your page.

  • http://www.lostartofblogging.com Tibi Puiu

    Wow, YOu’re some lucky son of a gun. Getting a paid ad from JohnChow and featured on his website :D . Nice job man.

  • http://www.lollerlan.com Greg

    I know I have clicked the link many times myself to get go to his blog. This is definitely an attractive ad mostly because it has John Chow trying to kill a stuffed panda.

    The look on his face..