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Monthly archive June, 2008
General Information / PPC

TTZ Media After 10 Days

by Tom on Jun 30, 2008 • 1 Comment

So I’ve had TTZ Media ads showing on my sites now for about 10 days and I must say they are doing pretty well. You can tailor the ads that show up on your site based on keywords, so most of the ads are always relevant to what you are promoting on your site. Each click seems to be worth a little more than adsense pays, which is nice, and people seem to click them a little more than adsense. I don’t know if it’s because they look a little different or what, but it’s working out pretty well. I’m going to start pushing it a little more on a few sites in place of adsense and see what sort of numbers I can pull through this month, but so far I am very pleased with the results and am in the process of replacing everything that used “shoppingads” with TTZ Media ads.

P.S. Stay away from shoppingads.com, they were good before a larger company bought them out and now I don’t seem to make anything off of them.

General Information

Naming Your Own Business

by Michael on Jun 23, 2008 • No Comments

Alas! It has been sometime since I have posted on the greatness that is InternetGangsters.com but I do have a good reason.  Starting an IT consulting business is hard work.  One of the hardest parts being picking a name.  Since I started the business right out of college I was a bit more interested in coming up with a “cool” name instead of a marketable one.  After lots of thinking I came up with the name Chasing Squid.  Now, I know what you are all thinking right now. “Hot damn Michael, that is one of the coolest combination of two words I have ever heard!”  I agree with you.  However, it most certainly is not very practical.  Several of my clients asked me what it meant, and I wish I had a better answer then, “I just have a bizarre obsession with the giant squid.”  (I do, but this is neither the time nor place to discuss that wonderful sea creature)  Anyways, I was able to grab a good amount of clients out of the gate, most of them being friends of friends, so I initially wasn’t too worried that my IT company sounded like an expedition led by an old Sweedish guy.  Once it came down to getting new clients, Chasing Squid wasn’t looking so hot.  I had a sweet logo, pretty cool website(75% done @ www.chasingsquid.com) and a handful of clients but I wanted to grow.  So I had to think of a new name and completely rebrand the company.  As I sit here on Monday morning, I am deciding between a few different new names and I will keep you all updated with what I choose.

Lesson to be learned here: Think before you name your company. Pick something inline with the others in your industry.

Affiliate Programs / PPC

Experimenting with New Ads – TTZ Media

by Tom on Jun 20, 2008 • No Comments

So I signed up for a new ad service last week, TTZ Media. From what I understand it was started by John Chow of johnchow.com and actually pays quite well. It uses a pay per click business model similar to adsense, so anytime anyone clicks on the ads you make money. In some niches you can make quite a bit for each click and obviously in some you don’t make as much, but so far I feel like it’s working out much better than adsense has.

I have added it to a few of my sites so far and replaced a lot of my shoppingads.com banners with TTZ banners. So far I am pleased to say that it is working out well and I am going to add these banners to a lot more of my sites in the near future. So if you feel your site can generate some cash from banners that promote products, then check out TTZ Media.

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