AD-Mania

Here is something we’ve found that may eventually grow into a nice opportunity for free advertising. If you check out this free advertising forum, you’ll see that they are making it possible to sign up and participate as a forum member and immediately start promoting the products and services you sell. An interesting idea, and a forum to keep an eye on. With all the expense that it takes to operate a successful website or online business, anytime we find an opportunity for free advertising we’ll try and let you know about it.

Removing The Most Annoying Part About Relocating

Aside from the major disruption of our lives, one of the most annoying parts about relocating (whether it is across town, across the state, or across the country) is finding the right moving company. There are so many variables when choosing a moving truck rental company: price, experience, delivery locations, etc., and you can spend hours calling around from one company to the next to find the one you want to go with. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking for Alaska movers, New York movers, or California movers… the choosing of the company is usually a long process.

This is one of my favorite parts about MovingOrbit.com, they handle the contacting of the companies for you. Using their very easy-to-use website you can enter in the specifications of your move and then let them find the available movers for you. No more wasting hours of valuable time, not to mention possible running up a good sized long distance phone bill, MovingOrbit.com will give you a rundown of the available movers and their prices for your specific task. It’s nice when you find something that makes life easier for a change… especially during the already stressed out process of relocation.

A relatively new take on site sponsorship has started being used more and it is worth discussion. Themed sponsorship is when the overall theme of a website is entirely changed and attributed to a new sponsor.

Here is an example of a recent themed sponsorship done at an online forum community:

Original theme that was in use for years:

And here is what happened when they sold off sponsorship of the theme:

Now, with themed sponsorship the changes don’t have to be as dramatic as this, but it is hard to argue that this wouldn’t get the attention of the members of that community. The only real argument is were the changes too much? Were members of the community offended by such drastic changes? And that is a hard argument to settle, although there was much discussion at this site about those things.

Themed sponsorship, if done correctly, could be a great way to reach hundreds or thousands of people devoted to a specific niche. But, it is a fine line you walk as a site owner because you don’t want to scare off your members by having them think your site is under new ownership or has been hacked. Dedicated members of a web community sometimes also don’t like to feel they are being sold something every time they open a new page.