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Hi,
I`m about to launch my website not too long from now. Wondering how much I charge Advertisers to put an Add on my site. I know it depends on the size of the add and traction of the site and all but just wanna know the jist or if there`s a website out there with info.

Thanks for anyone`s help on this matter!
-Eric



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Thanks,
Eric Silva
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Sounds good I`ll go ahead and check that out.

Thanks!



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Thanks,
Eric Silva
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Hi esilva,

How much would you pay to advertise on your website?  You could "crunch the numbers" and "do all the research" in the world but that does not mean anything when running an internet business.  If your honest answer to my question above is not low I would suggest not trying to figure out how much to charge people but who to charge. 

When marketing any website my #1 goal is to first find ALL related companies/websites.  Once I find ALL (I do mean all) I figure out a plan to `befriend` each one.  Many times that means offering free advertising just to get my foot in the door.

I would rather have a company, that I know would benefit greatly from advertising on my clients site, advertise on the site free for months just to show him the benefits.   I know if I do this I will have locked an advertiser in for years.

So my advice is focus on finding the right advertisers first and then focus on the money side of things.

Jeff

That`s awesome advice and will start checking out the related companies first off.

Thanks Jeff!
-Eric



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Thanks,
Eric Silva
http://twitter.com/esilva83

One piece of Advice I can give is that you should measure your web traffic in total numbers.  This is probably the most important selling point for you.  What you will need to come up with are not only average Monthly hits to the websites (total hits) but also how many unique visitors you have to your site.  As the traffic increases so do your prices.


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Yeah that`s what I was thinking. Thanks for your help Aaron! I`ll have add some numbers up now.


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Thanks,
Eric Silva
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Rich Sloan , Co-Founder, Chief Startupologist, StartupNation

Definitely a good solution.  However, if it`s not set up yet on a site it takes time to gather good information.

If you can`t wait for Google Analytics to compile numbers for you download the raw log files and use a free WWW log file reader/analytic number crunching program like `WebLog Expert Lite`.  Easy to use and gives you the quick stats you need.  They have higher priced packages that can do just about every type of number/data crunching you will need for a site.


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Aaron Wood
CEO
San Diego Dream Weavers
http://www.sddreamweavers.com
awood@sddreamweavers.com

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http://www.sddreamweavers.com/san-diego-seo-marketing-blog/