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Re: Local Site Ads

Posted By: Mel. White
Date: Monday, October 30, 2006, at 1:25 a.m.(pst)

In Response To: Local Site Ads (Bob)

It's a good idea -- and will be top-notch if you can get some display advertising in your local paper. That way, folks who pick up the paper can become familiar with it and your offer (say $5 for one week; $20 for one month for a certain sized banner) will become well known.

Some other issue to think about -- layout, ad size, ad colors (no, I'm not kidding), and ad staff (which could be you.) Most folks haven't a clue how to lay out an ad (and there's an art to it.) You can offer 3-4 desings for text only and 3-4 for "picture included." If someone has a professionally done ad (like an Ebby Holiday realtor ad) then you could run it.

Color can be an issue for top banner ads. Color "brands" your site, and if you have at the top a HUGE ad with all the wrong colors, it adds quite a jarring note to your page.

Do consider a fee for creating the ad (and then say, "ready to go ads are only $2/week for a 200x200 ad".)

You will have to know something about optimizing graphics. Some folks will hand you an ad that will take 5 minutes to add. Others are going to try and shoe some flash animation on you (don't accept that. It requires special programs, and not all the computer users in your area will want to download and upgrade.)

I would offer the ads free for a limited time (or charge a dollar for the whole month.) You will also have to have content that keeps people coming back to the site... you can use some RSS news feeds to pick up things like health news and local news and agricultural news, but in addition a little original local content would be nice.

Along with a link to your local radio stations AND the newspaper.

Anyway, we just got in from a long trip yesterday and I'm achy and sleepy and that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Hopefully others will leap right in and add to this!

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