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Casual Articles - Pitch Your Biz with Pixels
Successfully selling your product again and again is the goal of every business owner, entrepreneur, and sales professional. If you want to sell many products, you must find new ways to reach as many prospects as possible. When I was a salesperson in the corporate world, I would call on leads and make cold calls to companies with the intention of getting in front of the prospect. Times have changed and it’s more competitive in the marketplace nowadays than ever before. It takes more than just picking up the phone and getting the meeting to be able to sell your product. It takes learning new and creative marketing methods to bring in more
Pixel advertising can be very cost effective, especially compared to other forms of online advertising. Since your ad typically remains on the site for 1-5 years or more, your one time cost will be much less than advertising on typical Pay-Per-Click sites
If you own a business and are looking to generate more interest in what the services or products you offer you might want to create blogs. To create blogs you need to have a better understanding of just what they are and how they can help. Basically a blog is a method of interacting with internet users, they have been referred to as journals online as well, allowing you to create interest in your business, services, or products, by providing information using your expert knowledge in the industry.People create blogs for many reasons but one thing remains the same is that blogs are very different from websites, in such that the publisher
You may have heard of pixel advertising from recent stories on CNBC or CNN, or in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. In less than six months, the market for micro ads has exploded out of nowhere.
Pixel advertising is the creation of Alex Tew, a 21 year old college student in the U.K. He created MillionDollarHomePage.com in August, 2005, in order to raise money for his education. He dreamed up a grid of one million pixels, the tiny bits of light that make up the visible screen on a computer. Selling each 10x10 pixel block for $100 each, he aimed to raise one million dollars. Last month, he surpassed his goal, selling his last block for $38,100 on eBay.
Once the story of the remarkable growth of his improbable site hit the international media, hundreds of others created their own pixel pages. Although most pixel pages are just creative fundraisers for their owners and “me-Tew” copycats, many sites have developed a unique theme to stand apart. CompanyBattleships.com uses the grid and the Milton Bradley game to promote its site. Local elementary school teacher David Robb has recently launched 1TeachersDream.com to raise money for five different charities.
What’s the Attraction?
Typically, advertisements are sold in 10x10 blocks, with space priced by the pixel. Each block however, is 100 pixels, so a $0.10 pixel page sells its blocks in multiples of $10. A visit at ThePixelWars.com reveals sites that fit any budget.
Pixel advertising can be very cost effective, especially compared to other forms of online advertising. Since your ad typically remains on the site for 1-5 years or more, your one time cost will be much less than advertising on typical Pay-Per-Click sites
One of the key faults of many entrepreneurs is that they create a job rather than a business.It all seems to make sense in the beginning. You’ve started your business and you do everything from the accounts, to the marketing, to the sales and making coffee. It saves additional costs and you know the business better than anyone else. As you grow your business, you may take on extra staff for certain tasks and you gradually let go of the areas that you’re weakest on. But you still like to be involved in everything.After all, it’s your business, your investment, your baby. What if someone else doesn’t take as much care of it as
You may have heard of pixel advertising from recent stories on CNBC or CNN, or in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. In less than six months, the market for micro ads has exploded out of nowhere.
Pixel advertising is the creation of Alex Tew, a 21 year old college student in the U.K. He created MillionDollarHomePage.com in August, 2005, in order to raise money for his education. He dreamed up a grid of one million pixels, the tiny bits of light that make up the visible screen on a computer. Selling each 10x10 pixel block for $100 each, he aimed to raise one million dollars. Last month, he surpassed his goal, selling his last block for $38,100 on eBay.
Once the story of the remarkable growth of his improbable site hit the international media, hundreds of others created their own pixel pages. Although most pixel pages are just creative fundraisers for their owners and “me-Tew” copycats, many sites have developed a unique theme to stand apart. CompanyBattleships.com uses the grid and the Milton Bradley game to promote its site. Local elementary school teacher David Robb has recently launched 1TeachersDream.com to raise money for five different charities.
What’s the Attraction?
Typically, advertisements are sold in 10x10 blocks, with space priced by the pixel. Each block however, is 100 pixels, so a $0.10 pixel page sells its blocks in multiples of $10. A visit at ThePixelWars.com reveals sites that fit any budget.
Pixel advertising can be very cost effective, especially compared to other forms of online advertising. Since your ad typically remains on the site for 1-5 years or more, your one time cost will be much less than advertising on typical Pay-Per-Click sites
Are you lost in the wilderness when it comes to choosing a career? Once, we knew the way. As children, we played at different roles, but some became our favorites. Those favorites hinted at our gifts. They pointed the way to our exciting futures as entrepreneurs, dancers or astronauts. We did what was fun, and, in the process, we began to find and follow our paths.As young adults, however, our paths began to fade under thickets of obstacles: other people's expectations, poor self-esteem and /or lack of faith. But, the good news is that, for each of us, the path is still out there. A cover of tangled weeds may hide its course, but it's st
Once the story of the remarkable growth of his improbable site hit the international media, hundreds of others created their own pixel pages. Although most pixel pages are just creative fundraisers for their owners and “me-Tew” copycats, many sites have developed a unique theme to stand apart. CompanyBattleships.com uses the grid and the Milton Bradley game to promote its site. Local elementary school teacher David Robb has recently launched 1TeachersDream.com to raise money for five different charities.
What’s the Attraction?
Typically, advertisements are sold in 10x10 blocks, with space priced by the pixel. Each block however, is 100 pixels, so a $0.10 pixel page sells its blocks in multiples of $10. A visit at ThePixelWars.com reveals sites that fit any budget.
Pixel advertising can be very cost effective, especially compared to other forms of online advertising. Since your ad typically remains on the site for 1-5 years or more, your one time cost will be much less than advertising on typical Pay-Per-Click sites
Many lawyers are cutting costs due to competition. Yes, even lawyers have competition these days even though they seem to have an unlimited number of people to sue. This is because there are so many lawyers each year graduating from Law School and despite what you think the Bar Exam is really a piece of cake; lawyers just complain about it to make you think they are smart.Of course the big law firms have the most clout, political connections and therefore a small town lawyer maybe way out of his or her league as a solo professional and can get buried in the process and therefore as a client it might make sense to allow some of these smal
What’s the Attraction?
Typically, advertisements are sold in 10x10 blocks, with space priced by the pixel. Each block however, is 100 pixels, so a $0.10 pixel page sells its blocks in multiples of $10. A visit at ThePixelWars.com reveals sites that fit any budget.
Pixel advertising can be very cost effective, especially compared to other forms of online advertising. Since your ad typically remains on the site for 1-5 years or more, your one time cost will be much less than advertising on typical Pay-Per-Click sites
Successful enterprise building requires seven elements. These are:1. People, who are the source of the creative ideas which drive the enterprise’ s innovations;2. Financial Resources, to fund the transformation of these ideas into market breakthroughs;3. A Coherent Business Philosophy, from which the enterprise sets its course;4. Capable Leadership, in order to properly direct and manage the enterprise;5. Strategies and Tactics, to focus the enterprise’ s strengths and minimize its weaknesses;6. Marketplace Intelligence, allowing its people to understand the changing forces in the environment which are
Pixel advertising can be very cost effective, especially compared to other forms of online advertising. Since your ad typically remains on the site for 1-5 years or more, your one time cost will be much less than advertising on typical Pay-Per-Click sites, such as Google, Yahoo, or Overture.
The disadvantages need to be considered, of course. On a new pixel site, your ad has great visibility, but once the page becomes more than 75% full, your small block is swamped by all the other ads. Also, your business may have a particular market; the general surfer who views that particular pixel page may not be of value to you.
Creating the Most Cost Effective Traffic
The best sites to advertise on are those that either have a theme related specifically to your industry, and/or are about 10-20% full. These latter sites have established a stable growth rate, while leaving enough room for your ad to be very visible as the site continues to gain more customers.
Also, look to see the current advertisers and restrictions on the site. Are these companies you want to share space with? Do the ads point mainly to other pixel pages, or established brick and mortar company websites? Does the site allow adult-themed sites that may conflict with your client base? Do you see your competitors, or are you the first of your industry on the site? Can you change your ad image and URL at a later time?
As for creating an effective ad, bigger is not always necessary. Colors and placement are the most important factors triggering high response rates. Use a bold symbol or word with contrasting colors to the neighboring ads.
Location is critical. On sites with very prominent ads that may have cost that advertiser $300 or more, take advantage of their eye magnetism and place your smaller ad next to that ad. In some cases, you can “merge” your ad with the larger ad, matching colors and adding a word of your own. But more often, successful ads have opposite color schemes, and are placed immediately to the
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