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What Are the Best CPM Advertising Networks?

When trying to monetize actively a website or a blog, the administrator has to face a quite difficult choose: which advertising network will he use? In this article, I will only review CPM Advertising networks because they have fixed rated as opposed to PPC’s dynamic rates. So what are the best advertising networks that pay for CPM Publishing? As “best advertising network”, I of course mean: who pays the most?

1. GlobalTakeOff (up to $4 CPM)

GlobalTakeOff is a CPM Advertising company, as you may have guessed. They offer CPM Advertising banners and have very few requirements, if any. Getting accepted is pretty complicated if you have a very small site, but publishers that possess websites that get over 1,000 unique visitors per day can easily become a GlobalTakeOff editor.

2. Tribal Fusion (up to $4 CPM)

Tribal Fusion is another big, I mean huge, CPM Advertising Network. Publishers of Tribal Fusion will win more then the ones of any other advertising network, excluding Google AdSense but they are PPC. The only reason it is not above GlobalTakeOff in my list, because yes Tribal Fusion pays more than GlobalTakeOff, is that the requirements to get accepted by them as a publisher are pretty strict. First of all, you need over 500,000 unique visitors per month! Yes, that is approximately 15,000 unique visitors per day, which is not that common on niche related websites for example. But do the maths – 15,000 * 0.004 = $60 per day, not that bad for just one website. Overall, an advertising network that targets very big and qualified websites exclusively.

3. ValueClick Media (up to $3.5 CPM)

This CPM advertising network pays well, also probably one of the top-paying for non US/CAN traffic, and has fewer site requirements than Tribal Fusion. “Only” 3,000 visitors per month are required. The two other great parts of this company is that you have nice statistics, very precise and exportable as well as numerous advertising formats.

4. Interclick (up to $3 CPM)

A similar network to the notorious AdBrite (which will certainly appear somewhat next on my list), on which you can select individually the campaigns that you wish to run. They have quite some advertising formats, but not nearly as much as AdBrite or ValueClick, so that is one downside of this advertising network. The other inconvenient is that they accept new publishers on contact only, which is interesting for advertisers because those know that not everyone can get in, but it makes it sort of hard to publishers to get accepted. On a more positive side, they pay very well for targeted traffic and international traffic too.

5. RealTechNetwork (up to $2.3 CPM)

Pretty difficult to get into for small websites, this CPM advertising network demands no less than 25,000 impressions per month (with 12,500 unique). This website monetizes especially USA, Canada and UK traffic. They have a large panoply of advertising formats, including traditional ad banners, in-page videos, contextual advertising and expandable banners.

6. AdBrite (up to $2.2 CPM)

AdBrite is a pretty notorious CPM advertising network that usually accepts all publishers, and is seen as a major concurrent of Google AdSense. They usually accept all publishers, as AdSense, but you need to get your own advertisers by listing your website on their marketplace. Don’t worry, if you have over 1,000 or even 500 unique visitors per day, you will most certainly find advertisers. They do propose PPC Publishing, but we will only interest ourselves in the CPM aspect of their website. They have several ad formats, contextual, advertising banners and the well remunerating Full Pages.

Turn Your Internet Business Into a Profitable Home Based Business

There are periods with our internet business that it seems to be impossible to turn it into profitable home based business. This kind of feeling usually occurs during the first few months while working with our online business, it is just natural for any business, whether offline or online, to pass through with this kind of situation. There are a lots of people that lose hope on creating a profitable home based business. The success of internet home based business will always depend on the quantity as well as the quality of traffic that we will able to generate. So the key for a successful home based business is traffic. This is the main reason why a lots of people opted to give up working online as they are unable to create a highly targeted traffic to their websites. Here is some basic technique to gather highly quality traffic to your website.Search Engine Optimization Marketing: This marketing strategy is consider to be as the most effective marketing strategy in promoting any product in the internet as it was cost effective, produces a high quality visitor to your website, and offers a continuous flow of visitor to your site that will surely turn your internet business into profitable home based business. There are several method of optimizing your website to search engine.A.) On page optimization- It involves any optimization activity within your website, it includes optimization through a certain keyword that are highly related to your product, adding meta description
and posting a rich in keyword high quality content.B) Off page optimization- It is any optimization activity created outside the web page itself. It includes creating backlink, submitting of websites url to search engine and directories.Article Marketing: Article marketing is also consider as one of the proven method on creating high quality traffic to your website that will surely turn your business into profitable home based business. With article marketing, you were be given a chance to promote or presell your product by submitting a keyword enriched with a high quality content article to various reputable article directories. Articles will not only serve as a promotional writing as well as a backlink that will help increased your website page ranking that will surely help to create a profitable home based business.Video Marketing: Video marketing has emerged to be as one of the most effective method of giving information to individual through internet. It becomes so popular that it makes YouTube as one of the most visited website in the internet. It become so effective as it gave you an opportunity to promote a product with a audio-video capabilities that makes your promotion much productive and entertaining.Blog Marketing: Blogging is a vital aspect in creating a profitable home based business, everybody knows main requirement for search engine to award good ranking to a certain website is through a high quality rich in keyword content. So the main point, it is more likely impossible for our squeeze page or affiliate website to rank on search engine. We have to used a highly optimized blog as a conduit going to our sales page or squeeze page.The method given above is just a partial list of proven promotional technique to create an internet profitable home based business as there still a lots of method that are available for free that will surely boost your online business. At first, those technique might look so complicated but through a constant research and practice you will be use and acquainted using those method.The most important thing is to keep our mind focus when starting an online business. Develop a positive mental attitude whatever trials or challenges that might come or obstruct us in reaching our goals in building a profitable home based business.

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How to Find Great Live Auctions for Resale Items

Hi, my name is Walt. I’m an auctioneer with 25 years of experience in the auction business and licensed in the state of MA. I own Quick Auction Service, a company that specializes in building and running custom auctions, I’m also the webmaster of my own site and have been on eBay for 8 years. Besides eBay, the types of auctions I run most frequently are antiques and on-site estate auctions, although I’ve run everything from business overstock auctions to charity & special event auctions.

I enjoy sharing my knowledge and stories of the auction business. My goal for article is to help folks get the absolute most out of their auction experience.

Whether your fresh out of the package or a seasoned dealer I think I can offer something in this article to help you with your auciton adventures.

There may be as many reasons to attend auctions as there are types of auctions to attend. Maybe you want to attend an auction to buy items for re-sale on eBay, or some other market. Maybe you want to furnish your home with wonderful antiques, or you want to furnish your home as inexpensively without sacrificing quality.Some folks are just looking for a fun night out. With a little perseverance all these things are possible.

There are antiques and estate auctions, auto auctions, overstock auctions, absolute and no reserve auctions, real estate auctions, specialty auctions where only one genre of items are sold, tailgate auctions, live auctions, online auctions, sealed bid auctions, silent auctions, charity and fund raising auctions and many more.

Can you really buy for pennies on the dollar at an auction? You bet! Many times I’ve seen folks buy and re-sell at the same auction on the same night for a good profit, although be advised, this should only be done after the auction is over.

There are a lot of ways to find an auction, but here are some tips on how to find and attend the best ones.

Visit the genre of shops in the area that apply to the type of auction you want to attend. IE: If your looking for a good antique auction to attend, stop in the local antiques shops and ask for what there are for good auctions in the area. Sounds obvious right? But listen to what they don’t say as well as what they do say. Oftentimes when a dealer speaks poorly about an auction he or she attends, it may be likely that they are trying to keep a good thing secret. Think for a moment, why would a dealer keep attending a lousy auction?

Newspaper ads: I personally like to find ads in the classified ad section rather than flashy display ads. Flashy ads are usually indicative of an auction that will be high priced, may have reserves, (a set price on an item), and usually an enormous crowd. While any auction can be profitable to attend, it is usually best to steer clear of the glitzy ones, at least for the beginner.

Here’s the minimum you want to find out before you go. If there is a phone number in the ad, call and ask for the terms of the sale. What forms of payment do they accept? Is it an absolute auction? An absolute auction is one that has no minimum or reserve bids on items. These are the best auctions to attend! Is there a buyers premium? A buyers premium is like a tax that everyone who makes purchases at that auction must pay above the winning bid price. Most auctions these days do charge a buyers premium, 10% is not unreasonable but I feel much more than that is greedy, and the auctioneer that charges over 10% is counting on most bidders not doing the extra math as the bids quicken in pace.

A fair auction will have ample time to inspect the merchandise, usually at least 2 or 3 hours. Find out when inspection starts and make sure to attend! Never attend an auction if you can’t make the inspection, not unless your prepared to gamble. Most auctioneers sell at a rate of about 100 items per hour, which is why they sell “as is”. They simply don’t have the time to give a detailed description of all the items. Since almost all items at auction are sold AS IS, there are sure to be some damaged, refinished, fake and incomplete items at any given auction. Beware of any auctions that offer very little or no inspection time.

Good auctions will usually have 150 to 400 lots. A lot may be one item or a group of items. The exception to this are specialty auctions, auto auctions, real estate auctions etc.

When you attend your first sale, take note of the 1/2 dozen or so dealers that buy the most often. See if you can find out about other area auctions they attend.

When you do find an excellent auction, attend it as often as possible. By frequenting good sales, you help increase the bottom line of that business. It’s difficult for many auctioneers to keep the quality of merchandise consistent, so good attendance certainly helps. And when an auctioneer gets to know you as a buyer, he/she will go out of the way to accommodate you, to keep you coming back.

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