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Looking for link partners
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 25th, 2010
We’re looking for Swedish link partners now. If you would like to exchange links and have your link placed on http://www.tradebay.se/partner please let us know. you can contact us by writing an email to info(at)tradebay.se.
Launching Free Classified Ads across the world
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 21st, 2010
We’re launching free classifieds across Canada, UK, New Zealand, South Africa, and hopefully more countries soon. Here you’ll be able to search or post free local classified ads in which ever country you want. With the market growing for classifieds as the economy continues to struggle, we thought it was a good a time as ever to get in the game.
TradeBay Categories
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on November 13th, 2009
We’re pleased to announce the following new categories for TradeBay.se!
TradeBay subpages
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on October 21st, 2009
How To Make Money Using Twitter
Posted by BobZ in Uncategorized on July 28th, 2009
Twitter is a social networking platform that lets people share ideas and information with each other using a micro-blog platform. Basically you can only write one or two sentences and share it with your followers. Even though Twitter is immensely popular, it’s still relatively new and a gold mine for any type of internet marketer or online entrepreneur.
The Method
There are several ways to do this, but I’ll outline the one which I feel is the most effective.
- Find affiliate programs with high revenue. CPA works best, but depending on the amount of followers you have you can opt to have CPC as well.
- Create a twitter profile relevant to the affiliate programs you joined.
- Post tweets with affiliate URL’s
- Post normal tweets with news relevant to your niche so it’s not so spammy with affiliate URL’s
- Buy and Auto-follower and let the program accumulate followers for you.
This is a very simple method but can be highly effective. It’s also very easy to do and not time consuming at all so the money generated from this can be worth your time. Remember not to make your tweets too spammy with affiliate URL’s as people will catch on and stop following you. Happy Tweeting!
Social Media Marketing – What’s the hype?
Posted by BobZ in Uncategorized, Web Design on June 7th, 2009
Firstly, I think it’s important to point out that social media are websites or platforms where people connect with other people. It’s really that simple.
There is now a hype surrounding social media marketing and everybody is trying to get on board. Companies have shrunk their budget and are looking on focusing on the cheaper social media marketing. Is social media marketing more effective than any of the other established methods of internet marketing? No one really knows yet. Here are the things that social media can do for you though:
1) Build a Brand – It lets you connect with individuals all day every day that may be interested in your company/website. You can share interesting info/content to targeted people more and more so you build your name, image, and reputation.
2) Create Buzz – With interesting content and connecting with relevant or interested people, you can people to talk and make your company go viral.
3) Connect with customers like never before – Show another side to your business and connect on a more personal level. Build a rapport with your customers and get good feedback from them.
4) Control the message you want to send out, no mass media skewing or 3rd parties distorting the message. You have the ability to communicate on a 1-on-1 basis.
5) No cost really involved. Sure, it can be time consuming but worth every minute.
6) Brand awareness can mean sales down the road through other channels.
So in my humble opinion social media marketing does work and is very important in your overall marketing strategy. Should it be your only source or marketing channel? No. But tying it in with SEO, search engine marketing, banner advertising, video advertising, forums, and other tactics is important and can be very effective.
The forecast for advertising worldwide is a gloomy one but good news for online advertising
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 16th, 2009
Worldwide advertising spending is expected to fall by 6.9% this year to $453bn (£304bn) this year.
The decline has been put down to the current economic problems, which it said had both hit corporate confidence and put consumers off making major buys.
newspapers are expected suffer most, with advertising revenues down 12%, as people turned to the internet.
The internet would be the only medium to attract higher advertising spending.
It’s predicted that television would boost its proportion of advertising budgets to 38.6% from 38.1%, but the total spent on TV advertising would fall by 5.5%.
It’s also predicted that spending on internet advertising is set to rise 8.6% as shoppers hunt online bargains.
Earlier this month online monitoring firm Hitwise found that visits to classified advertising websites were booming, with visits to such sites in the US up 84% on the same time last year.
Newspapers have been particularly hit by the downturn, from smaller titles in the UK to large papers in the US.
In February, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation announced a $6.4bn quarterly loss, as falling advertising revenues forced it to cut $8.4bn from the value of assets.
Monetizing your traffic as a small publisher
Posted by BobZ in Banner Advertising, Uncategorized on April 6th, 2009
So you are a new publisher trying to get your site off the ground. You’re doing some different stuff to get more and more traffic to your site. But what now? How do you start making money from your website?
Let’s start this by exploring the most common way – Banner Advertising
Most sites have banner advertising on the top or sides of the page. Most banner ad deals are set up as CPM (Cost per Thousand), CPC (Cost per Click), or CPA (Cost per sale). Which one is best? Well, on CPM as a publisher, you don’t take any risks on how the banner advertisment will perform on your page and you get paid simply by the amount of exposures you deliver. On CPC, you take a small risk as you’re banking on the banner getting a high CTR (click through rate) to acheive good results and make some money. On CPA, you’re taking a 100% risk as you’ll only receive compensation when your visitors click on the banner, and make a transaction on the advertisers site. Many publishers cringe at the thought of giving advertisers “free” advertising on their sites. But as we know, the larger the risk often means the higher reward as well.
For example, I’ll give you a real life example. I was running a CPM campaign for a poker advertiser at $ 0.80 CPM. The advertiser insisted we should try CPA instead of CPM and offered $150 CPA. Like most publishers, I didn’t want to take any risk and went for the risk-free CPM of $0.80. They ran 10 million impressions worth and costed them $8,000. The campaign was highly targeted to their core audience with good promotions and strategy in place, so the campaign delivered very well for the poker advertiser. In fact, we managed the campaign so well that 92 players signed up and deposited funds to play poker with them. If we would have gone with the CPA deal, that would have been worth $13,800 instead of the $8,000 we got from CPM.
So as you can see, things are never clearly pointing to CPM as a publisher. If you offer quality traffic that matches the advertisers target market, you stand a good chance of seriously profiting from CPA. Of course with CPA, the advertiser has to also offer a quality product that is supported by nice banners, good promotions, and an effective landing page to drive conversions.
Remember, test out a variety of CPM, CPA, and CPC campaigns with different advertisers to see which ones offer you the best eCPM rate.
Please click here if you’re a publisher and would like to monetize your traffic more effectively.
Using Facebook to drive traffic
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 18th, 2009
This is something that is relatively new for me, and I’ve only been playing around with this for a short time. But I do have some useful tips on how you can use facebook to drive traffic.
1) Create a Group that is interesting and engaging.
Create a group that is somehow relative to your website, and make it interesting and engaging to entice people to join your group. You can do this by uploading videos, photos, links to other sites, quality information on the topic of the group, and asking for the group members to put in THEIR input on whatever the group topics are about. This way the group is actually serving a purpose and meaningful for the group members to stay in touch often.
2) Invite everyone you know with interest in this group to join
3) Tell every member to invite everyone they know who would be interested, and so on and so on.
4) Assuming your group gets a lot of members to join, you may very well have 50,000 members you can reach out to very easily whenever you want. You can engage these people with new content on the group page or simply send a bulk email to all group members to visit your site. This is potentially 50,000 worth of QUALITY visitors to your site very easily and for free. The key is to offer something unique and MEANINGFUL to the member so they keep coming back, the same as you would your regular website.
That’s all for now. I’ll dig deeper on Facebook on the next blog. But for now, this is something straight forward and simple 