Category Archives: 1. Innovation

Plenty of Fish – Cash cow!

A site called “PlentyOfFish.com” is currently getting 30 million hits a day. The number doesn’t blow me off. However, what surprise me is that this site is basically operated by single man “Markus Frind”. How does he achieved that? If you want to hear how he does that, you can go to his interview from [...]

Serving Video Ads

Use Flash for video ad How to get video ad serving on a web page? What are needed to achieve this? You want to serve video ad to the web page without having users to download any plug-in and software. There are many different video formats (eg. WMA, FLV, SWF, MPEG, RM and etc) and [...]

Planning a Behavioral Marketing Campaign

To have an effective marketing strategy, you should follow the steps below: Audience segmentation Targeting Positioning Audience Segmentation We normally segment our audience based on the following characteristics: Geographical – location like country, dma, city, zip Demograhical – gender, age, income, education, culture and job. Behavioral – online/offline shopping behavior, web usage, website loyalty, prior purchases. Psychographical [...]

How cookie deletion impacts ad network?

More and more people are concerned with privacy and start deleting cookie to prevent being tracked. How will this impact on the ad network? Undercount the conversion (both click and view-based). However, vast majority of conversions (70-90%) occur within 24-hour window of the corresponding click or impression and there are not too many people delete [...]

What is retargeting?

Connecting businesses with their past website visitors so there is an increased likelihood of a completed transaction. Aware that current industry statistics show that on average, 90% of site visitors leave without taking action, companies are interested to employ retargeting technology to maximize opportunities to reconnect with these previous visitors and convert them into sales. [...]

Startups – It is full of ups and downs

My buddy Steve sent me an article today that contained some important data shared by 4 startups companies. I like this article a lot as it reflects what I have experienced since I started my online wedding company – JustProposed.com. Being an entrepreneur, I found out it was way more difficult than I thought. You [...]

Analyze your site’s traffics

Identify who comes to your site It is crucial to analyze the users who come to your site because you can use this data to evaluate and customize your site to better serve your users and maximize the ad income. For example, you may find out that a lot of users from Asia is reading [...]

Boost up your advertisement revenue

Targeted Traffics is the Key To boost up your ad revenue, first you need to bring in targeted traffics to your site. How? The keys here are great content and effective marketing strategy. I will have another articles to talk about this. For now, let’s focus on how to monterize and then optimize the revenue [...]