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We have google ads and have been making some money, but we would like a some other quality ads from a network. We don`t  have a team to sell direct.  Last year when we had our old site up we had relationships with Burstmedia and 24/7 Realmedia and we got lots of junk ads and they were difficult to upload. Any referrals for networks and an ad sales consultant who works on performance-based terms.

thanks

I`ve been researching ad network models like crazy.  Here are a couple that rise above some others:
TribalFusion -- CPM
Zedo -- CPM
VideoEgg -- CPE

Great entry point for small to medium size businesses.  I hope this was useful.

thank you, what is your site?

We`re still in the startup phase of our business.  So our site won`t be up for another 5 months.  Our focus and target is providing online distribution for African American, US Hispanic and Native American filmmaker, producer, and amateurs to develop UGO/P (User Generated Originals/Programming).

As I stated before, we`re constantly analyzing ad networks along with ad service companies.  Just an FYI, if you visit IAB (the authority and policy provider for online advertising), you`ll find a number of:

• Research documents
• Across the Board Policies
• Industry Standards and Best Practices
  

Related too/with all things on the web.  Basically trying to build an across the board industry standard -- doing away with the wild west mentallity.

If you need any more information, please feel free to ask.  Checked out Oddpodz.  Nice and clean.  We`re going to partake in your site as part of our blogging relationship strategy.

Great. We`ve been at this for a couple of years. Made a very costly mistake early on and learned some hard lessons, happy to share.

We are in the process of tweaking our front page and adding a more valuable angle to our site.

Look forward to staying in touch. What city are you in?

K

We are located in Martinsburg, WV.  Very, very, off the beaten media industry path.  If you don`t mind me asking, what are some of the trappings that we can avoid?

Our biggest mistake was outsourcing our tech. We spent over $300,000 and ended up with the wrong solution and wrong team. IT was not our background, so we did not know what did not know. ;(  Assuming we`d launch in a certain time frame, we amped up on other expenses, that ended up being a big waste. We should have had our own programmers. Feel free to call me also, I can give you details. my phone number is on my brandingdiva.com site. On the Oddpodz blog there is an article I wrote about these lessons. http://www.oddpodz.com/blog/366.html.

K

Read the link. 
And it was incredibly helpful.  Completely retooled my thought process in constructing our site. 

Thank you so much for sharing your story.  And I look forward to keeping in touch.  Have a great week.  And better weekend.