Atlanta Webmasters Meetup
11.18.2009 | Startup Resources
You know how it goes:
- Create a blog or service-website catered to a niche
- Make it free so you can build users
- Setup some ads and affiliate programs
- ???
- PROFIT!
If your current venture relies on ad revenue as its primary source of income and you are actually doing well, we would like to hear from you! I am getting a group of webmasters together in the very near future to share some best practices from our personal experiences. Amongst the topics we will try to cover:
- Best ways to get more traffic. (SEO, articles, etc.)
- Does SEM make sense for us.
- Ways to optimize our ads on the site for better performance.
- Affiliate programs that work
- Alternative ad networks that work
- Tips on selling ads directly or through a service.
If you are interested, please leave a comment below or ping me on Twitter.
11.20.2009
I’m not trying to be a smart ass, I swear, but I’d be interested to know if you get many replies here – I honestly thought this business model was widely thought to be dead.
Is anyone in Atlanta actually making money this way?
11.22.2009
Yeah – lots of people are making money this way. We met two people who make $5,400+ a month the other day at AWE.
Advertising based businesses are not dead. Some just do it better than others.