RE: Will you be here in a year
ILONA JERABEK <ilona_at_queendom.com> WROTE:
> Just out of curiosity - is anybody out there who is
> still doing OK with 100% advertising model? By OK I
> mean at least breaking even.
TO WHICH SUE MOSHER <sue_at_slipstick.com>REPLIED:
>I'm not happy with the 100% advertising model (more on
>that in a moment), but we're doing much better than
>breaking even. I attribute our success with ad sales at
>http://www.slipstick.com to the fact that we have a
>highly visible site in a niche where many of our site
>visitors are decision-makers for purchases of products
>in a very competitive technology marketplace.
>Advertisers have come to us, knowing that the content
>we provide draws the people they most want to reach.
>We've never diluted our ad space with banner swaps or
>low CPM affiliate arrangements, so all the ads we run
>are directly relevant to site visitors.
A friend of mine runs www.ad-up.com. He specializes in
selling advertising for high value content sites. I'll
email him your post and see what he says.
BTW: your site rocks! I am a hard core Outlook user so
I have bookmarked your site. I've been thinking about
learning to program with Outlook.
Your post really hits all the big bullet points that I
touch on when I am taking to site publishers about the
challenges of running a site and really managing revenue
generation. With programming and site management most
of your efforts are productive. With selling most of
your sales calls are not.
Selling is a real time suck for most people.
Good Luck!
Ron Sheridan
rsheridan_at_pointroll.com
PointRoll.com
Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 09:11:05 CDT
