Comments on: Our First Blog Sponsor

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:44:52 +0000

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..

By: Tibi Puiu

Tibi Puiu — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:17:36 +0000

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

By: Deepk Dutta

Deepk Dutta — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:36:39 +0000

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.

By: Shaun Connell

Shaun Connell — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:41:58 +0000

Ah, John Chow is amazing. Hehe.

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:24:54 +0000

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!

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:54:59 +0000

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.

By: Leo

Leo — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:34:42 +0000

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

By: CyberBoy

CyberBoy — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:06:25 +0000

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

By: Israel

Israel — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:40:12 +0000

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