In a huge move that has some people thinking that paid advertising on the internet has gone too far, the controversial PayPerPost service that pays bloggers to write content without requiring disclosure, will officially announce on Tuesday that it has scored $3 million in venture capital. The Series A round was led by Inflexion Partners,…
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Feedvertising From TLA
Last week, Text Link Ads announced that they would be offering Feedvertising, which has been in a limited beta for a while. Anybody that is using WordPress 2.0 can download a plugin from the TLA site, add a bit of code to their pages, and deliver ads, at the end of each post in their…
A New Ad Program
A new advertising progrm, which has been in the works for a couple months has just unveiled itself, today. Adgenta, which says that it does not compete with AdSense (meaning that you should be able to have both of them on the same page [not verified]), allows you to place ads, directly inside your posts,…
ProBlogger Turns One-Year-Old Today
Darren says, at the end of this post that ProBlogger is the one site of his that he is the “most proud of”. As well, he should be! With so many people trying to make money with blogging, Darren is the “go to” site for information on making money from blogging. In celebration of this…
The Numbers Illusion
Even though I think that his numbers may be “all wrong”, Dave Morgan has said that RSS advertising is coming fast. He comments on this post at Fred Wilson’s blog, and says that RSS advertising can work. Even Jeff Jarvis has pointed to Dave’s article. I hope Jeff went to Fred Wlison’s blog, and understood…
Advertisement Inside RSS – To Ad or Not To Ad
On February 22nd, I sent an email to Chris Tolles, vice president of marketing at Topix.net. Basicly, I asked “Why are you delivering advertisements through the RSS feed?” Here was his answer: Well, to answer your question directly — why are we putting ads in the RSS feed? Well, so we can monetize the RSS…
Monetizing RSS
Feedburner has announced a $7 million second round of financing, at their “Burning Questions” weblog. They say that “Our existing free services will remain free. There will be new free services, expansions of existing free services, new premium services, the same dedication to customer support we’ve provided since day one, and hopefully, an office that…
Email vs. RSS Marketing
Up to this point, one widely used online marketing technique is email marketing. As the saying goes, “the money is in the list”. Every single marketer is communicating to their prospect and customers via email. As a result, people are receiving tons and tons of emails in their inbox and they’re just getting numb to…
It Seems So Simple
Some people think that it’s really simple to start making money by blogging. Here’s a post by LinkBuilder that makes it seem like you can quit your job, next week. Here’s what he says: Its all the rage – Blogging for Dollars – I’m seeing it everywhere these days. Here are three steps to starting…
The Wrong Way To Make Money
Before I get into this, I will first say that I truly “love” WordPress”. I know that might sound a little over the top, but there is simply no other blogging software that even comes close to WordPress. Over the past few days there has been some discoveries that were made about the way that…