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I should I spent a $500 advertising budget

Posted by pointlessbanter • 5/09/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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I have $500 I set aside this month from freelance writing to use in advertising pointlessbanter.net.

I did okay with stumbleupon ads when I experimented with them and might run a few campaigns.

However I am open for ideas? How would you spend that money?

DAMN it should be how should I spend a $500 advertising budget...

I might have been drunk writing that

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5/09/08

mattclark

Well, a few dollars set aside to advertise on mattmetrodude.com would be money well spent, you'd get a well written and witty post mentioning your site, and if you really wanted it bad enough perhaps even a link in my soon to be developed blogroll

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1. 5/09/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  Lol... I knew people were going to whore their sites... damn me.
2. 5/09/08
  
  mattclark
  
  Yeah, but I'm serious, you should see the post I wrote about Bloggernoob and I haven't even won his contest yet.
3. 5/09/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  What would you charge?
4. 5/09/08
  
  mattclark
  
  LOL, $10 will get you a really nice post
5. 5/09/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  ten bucks you are sold
6. 5/09/08
  
  mattclark
  
  Then I suppose we'd better make arrangements... my scratchback has yet to get any links in it, tell you what, you get your link into that two months in a row and I'll write two posts linking to you.
5/09/08

crkian

paying MattNutts to do it for you

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1. 5/09/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  lol... what did you have in mind
2. 5/09/08
  
  crkian
  
  Im sure I could come up with some fun and wacky ways to draw in the punters
5/09/08

LSKcrochet

maybe offline.....a newspaper perhaps.

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5/09/08

whojaybe

LOL! I'm not going to whore my sites... but if you want, I would try Projectwonderful and just test out the cheap sites that are like .01 per day... though, it is pretty time consuming looking for sites and crossing off which ones aren't good, etc... or go to a forum and pay someone to market your blog for you...

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5/09/08

crpitt

Participate in Doodle Week for $500 dollars

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5/09/08

aningeniousname

Give me the 500 and I'll get Pointless banter tattooed on my ass.

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1. 5/09/08
  
  mattclark
  
  I'll get a felt tip pen and write it on my forehead
5/09/08

DocKC

If I had these answers and I wish I did...I would definitely share them. I'm researching day and night how to drive traffic and optimize with little to no money.

Anything I come up with, I will certainly share.

Hey, how many more visitors do YOU need anyway!?! :) :) LMAO!

You rock, my friend! And your blog is INCREDIBLE!

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1. 5/09/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  I can drive traffic with little or no money but I am at the point where I want to try some new things. I figured I can take freelance money and dump it back into the site to see what happens.
5/09/08

NINE

Give me money and I will tell my mom how great your blog is.

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1. 5/09/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  You realized you just set yourself up for this:
  
  I whispered it into her ear last night in bed.
  
  Please get my shoes back, I left them under her bed.
2. 5/09/08
  
  Mewie
  
  HAHAHAHA. Run ads like that and you'll be even more successful.
3. 5/09/08
  
  NINE
  
  The joke is on you, my mom has no ears.
4. 5/09/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  Those aren't the holes I am interested in.
  
  (I give this about ten minutes before it is deleted)
5/09/08

DocNicole

I think advertising on kitchentablemedicne.com would be the way to go!

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5/09/08

DocNicole

Whoops that was kitchentablemedicine.com

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1. 5/09/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  I can't advertise on sites that don't know their own url
5/09/08

ThriftShopRomantic

Have you considered saving up your bucks for a couple of months and doing online advertising with Comedy Central, or somewhere like that?

www.comedycentral.com/mediakit/

Otherwise, have you tried Google Search ads?

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1. 5/09/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  I would have to save up forever to pay for comedy central. I will write in but I bet they don't do anything for less than 10k. (thanks for a link to their media kit)
  
  I am mulling over PPC ads, but search engine traffic for me usually sucks ass. I was thinking about doing more with stumble and maybe facebook.
2. 5/09/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  It's hard to say what their costs would be. They may do it on a cost per thousand impressions-- in which case you might have a chance of doing a test run if their minimum isn't insane.
  
  Worth a shot, anyway.
5/09/08

crkian

Do a comedy facebook application and get it to go viral. Even pay someone to do one

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5/10/08

tonytovar

You can always advertise at moolahblog.com for free. Under some conditions.

Tony

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5/10/08

tonytovar

Oh sorry, submitted to quick.

Let me know what you think okay?

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5/10/08

DaneMorgan

I'd buy spots on some smaller traffic blogs with good quality that cter to the same audience. Maybe not a flood of traffic but a good shot at converting some loyal readers who may in turn spread the word.

Also consider searching out some comedy newsletters/ezines with a fairly large base. Write a short humorous intro to a couple of your more popular posts and pay for an ad spot to include it in their publications. Try to write it so that it almost feels like more content in the zine rather than an ad.

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