Advertising with Rosscott, Inc.
A quick note: I have added Google Adsense to the right-hand sidebar, as well as Project Wonderful advertising between the comic posts and whatever comes after them. Let’s face it, the Google Ads are just to see what happens, but the PW ads are with the hope that interesting people actually use them and then other interesting people actually click on them.
If you’re a webcomic artist or otherwise website owner looking to get some exposure (heh), check it out on Project Wonderful. If it’s a real website and not utter crap or offensive as hell, I’ll let it by. As of right now, the price is wavering between free and $0.01, so I bet it’s in your price range.
If you are one of those people who feels that these small advertisements clutter up the wonderful, exciting content you’ve come to expect from this site, I encourage you to send me $20, at which point I’ll take down the ads for a month.
January 4th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Placed a bid because I believe our audiences overlap (i.e. smart people), and to save you from that ridiculous penis reduction ad.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:19 am
I've been debating writing an explanation of how advertising works on my site (and encouraging folks to click through when they are making purchases). I was stopping folks at random along the Palm Beach FL Lake Trail to interview them Sunday for a story about their use of the bike/ped/stroller/roller blader multiuse trail. (Shameless plug: http://www.palmbeachbiketours.com/2009/01/05/was-…) For the first time (and probably because it was Palm Beach), several folks asked me, "What's in it for you?" when I asked if they would mind having their picture taken.
One woman sort of grasped the concept of web advertising, but her daughter knew right away what was going on.
I don't mind the Google ads all that much. I normally pay about as much attention to ads – print, TV and electronic – as I do names in a Russian novel. I just bleep right past them. (No offense to any Russian readers.) Some of the Google ads are on-target and interesting. I did a review of bike taillights last week and clicked on some of the ads that popped up next to it. I was pleasantly surprised to find some vendors I may actually use some time.
My first Google check arrived from them this week: a huge $46.01 for clicks on http://www.palmbeachbiketours.com. Amazon brought in a little less than $200. Considering that was for about three months, I'm both pleased and disappointed.
Pleased because it's money I didn't have and disappointed because I had hoped to be able to afford a better brand of cat food for my wife and me. I guess she's just going to have to make do with the store brand for a bit longer.
My friend, a former newspaper food editor, and I wrestle with this issue all the time. In our Old World, there was a strict barrier between editorial, advertising and opinion. Since we are, for now, one-man/woman bands, it's a little painful to be a blend of those three entities.
http://www.jannorris.com/has been lucky enough to attract paid local advertising, so she's got a steady stream of income. She has, so far, resisted selling ad space above the banner, though.
I guess, though, that once you take money for it, there's no question about what you are. After that, you're just negotiating for price.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:42 am
Thanks! I'd much rather have your ad up than the one that was there.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:54 am
OK, I like your initiative for offering a service for $20. I assume that is based on the large amount of time it takes to do that (uh huh),