Comments on: Making Money Online

By: Claude Tango

Claude Tango — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:06:48 +0000

Interesting read. There is currently quite a lot of information around this subject around and about on the net and some are most defintely better than others. You have caught the detail here just right which makes for a refreshing change – thanks.

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By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:01:45 +0000

Ok, i know…. maybe later XD! when the new iphone appear. pow!

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:43:43 +0000

Because I love it. :-)

By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:20:34 +0000

Noway? Why? Sarah Whyyyy? bb =)ok bye! Ha! X(

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:06:40 +0000

@dale boyce, I’m too serious?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:03:07 +0000

What?! My white iphone? No way. Back off hahahaha!

By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:50:14 +0000

Ups, are you talking me seriously? dont worry about that my friend, you know why… i have a lot of patience =), but i want to win your white iphone the next time ok? X) hi!!

By: dale boyce

dale boyce — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:34:14 +0000

too serious sarah!

By: FTW Bears

FTW Bears — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:00:06 +0000

Cali Lewis is my hero. Take a tip from her.

By: Crout

Crout — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:51:49 +0000

I agree with tonyEnn the push technologies (syndicated embeds and pods) equals target marketing to sponsors. Sarah’s got all the ‘i’s dotted. And totally agree Cali Lewis and Neil at GBTV are a great example of making it work. A trusted agent company allowed them to focus on their talent. Seems the key to it. Gooooo Sarah, your shows and concept are great!

By: tonyEnn

tonyEnn — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:07:40 +0000

For the short time you’ve been doing this, you have some big name sponsors. You must be doing something right. I think you can integrate them into you podcasts like Leo Laporte does with Audible with pick of the week and free book give-aways. Much more palatable than popup ads in the middle of a video. It doesn’t hurt to throw a free ipod or-the-like to keep viewers and draw new ones once in a while too. Cali Lewis was able to quit her day job so it must be possible.

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:13:41 +0000

wohoooo!

By: FTW Bears

FTW Bears — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:18:32 +0000

this is one of your best videos.

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:55:26 +0000

woa, thank you.

By: FTW Bears

FTW Bears — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:53:10 +0000

nice

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:33:29 +0000

Online ads are hot! Yea.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:18:27 +0000

There are creative ways to do this, tonyEnn. :-)
Come on and tell me your creative ideas! I like the points idea, but don’t see how it will make me money. I can see how it could indirectly make me money, but don’t see a direct way to make money from giving out prizes.

Oscar, seriously, if you are out there your video game prize is coming soon.

Sorry I am late on sending you that prize you won on the live show! You will get it.

See, I do give out prizes and I have a nokia phone I’d like to give out.

By: tonyEnn

tonyEnn — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:28:01 +0000

I wish there was another way to monetize a site effectively without advertisements. We are uber saturated from all media and even driving down the street we see ads. A subscription model would give you the nicest looking sites and I would not object to a modest payment just to eliminate ads. I have a feeling that is not popular tho. Not sure how points could add up to $$ or at least to make a living wage. Good topic to get you thinking.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:22:05 +0000

hahahah! You should go check out the comments on YouTube. They are insane so far!

By: waldolupus

waldolupus — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:56:28 +0000

I’ve watched all of your Pop17 videos and I would say this was one of your most “professional” news reports, e.g. no joking around, good editing, interesting, brief. I do agree with Andy that a little less head nodding would make it even better.

By: funtime7777

funtime7777 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:19:09 +0000

Just another thought, if you do have more than one person with equal amounts of points, you may have to devise a “pull the name out of the hat” type raffle. And yes, refer a friend, for points, will keep them coming too. You don’t want to rule out people that already subscribe to you.

By: Cncivic

Cncivic — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:45:21 +0000

It was a great interview. Seems like community sites (social media) are the way to go. Facebook must/should be making loads of “mula” off of advertising. You should interview the producers/creators of some of those community sites. Rock on Pop17!

Go Giants!

By: Crout NZ

Crout NZ — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:03:09 +0000

Yea, the ad agencies simply want publishers to use a market/media intel tracker service that counts and calculates the same numbers so they are comparing apples-to-apples so to speak.

The ad agencies hold a host of advertisers on their books, and compete among themselves for clients. Your need as a publisher is to establish relationships with the agencies that hold the right kind of advert and sponsor clients that want to brand to your audience demographic. They will want traffic volume: UB’s (unique browser stats), PIs (page impressions), time on site, reach etc. Also, the agencies will advise on the best ad-server services available to you that tracks how much traffic you are exposing the client’s brand to and how much traffic you are delivering to client.

I’M RAVING ON!!! Sheesh there’s a thesis in all this! :)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:41:21 +0000

Ok! Do you think that some ad agencies will let me work with other ad agencies at the same time?

Thanks Crout!

By: Crout NZ

Crout NZ — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:56:00 +0000

Oh 2, tracking… Advertising Agencies seem to favor a market intelligence tracking and media matrix service over another. Here downunder Nielsen Net Ratings is essential. Your ad agencies would be able to advise which is right for you. OK, NZ out!

By: Crout NZ

Crout NZ — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:44:18 +0000

Oh, by the way, thanks for this vid-report. Really informative. I’m going to use it as an info-resource. Great stuff Ms Austin!

By: Crout NZ

Crout NZ — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:36:33 +0000

Hey Sarah, also subscriber/members could get points (or let’s say credits) based on the number of people they successfully deliver to pop17 as new subscribers. A deep database of members is a real lure to sponsors, particularly a database with a strong and identifiable niche (raises the stakes for targeted display advertising and sponsor brand campaigns.

Good luck with it all and fleeting greetings from New Zealand, hope New York’s turning on a fabulous day!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:32:58 +0000

I can find a way to track the stats. I can try to track the stats with Real Time Matrix and additional stats like comscore. Maybe there is a company out there that provides these services. Does anyone know of one?

By: funtime7777

funtime7777 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:25:42 +0000

You will have to work out someway of keeping track of all the traffic. I’d start simple, and build it up. I believe there are some programs out there that can tally the counts automated. I don’t have any names at this time, but you could make a few inquiries from your sources and I’m sure something would surface.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:07:32 +0000

Oooo yea! That would be 5 points for sponsors. And I know!! 5 points for anyone who uploads a photo or art design.

By: funtime7777

funtime7777 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:02:18 +0000

Maybe set up a link to your sponsors through your Pop17 site, and give points to those who subscribe to the sponsors sites too. I mean, who knows, if you can bring people to your sponsors sites, and it catches on, others too may want to sponsor you too.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:57:18 +0000

Funtime, this is very smart. I like the points idea. Don’t you think that making a video response would get the most points. Like if you make a video response you get 5 points. You get 1 point for commenting, 2 points for subscribing and you get more points for making recommendations to your friends. If you recommend your friend to subscribe then you get 2 points.

Can anyone else think of other ways to interact to get points?

If I think of anything else I’ll write it here.

By: Cock_Boy4u

Cock_Boy4u — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:46:52 +0000

this is a comment…lol

By: funtime7777

funtime7777 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:42:08 +0000

Maybe structure a question of the day on Pop17, every Thursday, or in the video’s you make.. Advertise the day and times to up the viewers. If you need subscribers, you can add point values to that as well.
Subscribe to Youtube= 2 points
Subscribe to Pop17= 2 points. and so on.
Now you will need help to keep track of all the peoples doing this..It would take time to work all detail out. Maybe keep it to a monthly contest?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:35:23 +0000

I completely agree with you. That’s why I just got the idea to create a contest where I give out a nokia cell phone to the best idea for online advertising. It will be around this video. I’ll post a response video to this video outlining the rules to the contest. The cell phone would be the reward system. I’m trying to put together the contest now. How do you suggest I go about making “point value?”

By: funtime7777

funtime7777 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:31:23 +0000

I’m finding that watching and interaction is key, but if you can incorporate some type of point value to the interaction, and reward system, it tends to increase the return rate. And after all, that’s the whole point.

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:19:45 +0000

Oh and Limerick, we put extra work into the production quality of this video. Now i need to let everyone know I made it.

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:18:08 +0000

Hi Alice,

Thank you for your insightful comment. I agree that if you can get people to share their experiences and tell their stories you will engage in a relationship with them. It’s the best when the advertiser gives back to the conversation.

Thank you!

By: Limerick

Limerick — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:11:48 +0000

Those are some really great perspectives! Thanks Sarah for their interviews! This production was really awesome!

By: Alice Yoo

Alice Yoo — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:18:01 +0000

Video was well done. Thank you for the information! Most common word seems to be “engage.” As a social networker myself, I’ve been on Friendster and I’m currently on MySpace, LinkedIn, and Facebook. I’ve also started my own niche social network, My Modern Metropolis, because I truly believe that people want to share their experience. I hope to bring in advertisers in a natural way so that the advertisers get to build a relationship with their consumers in an engaging and authentic way.

More to come…
Alice Yoo
Founder & CEO
http://www.mymodernmet.com

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:08:13 +0000

overall, pretty good, but your head nodding gets a bit distracting.