Posts Tagged ‘ Advertising ’

Some changes popping up at Peoria Pundit

March 16, 2010
By Billy Dennis

I don’t like to make changes without telling readers why I’m making them. And no doubt some of you have noticed already. I had a meeting with Debbie Adlof yesterday. She and I co-own TellPeoria.com. We’ve decided to start offering a new form of advertising for TellPeoria members. More on that at a later post. But...
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‘Tell Peoria’ connects brick-and-mortar businesses with local online media

January 25, 2010
By Billy Dennis

NOTE: I’ve been running ads for the site for a month or so, so TellPeoria is no secret. But we’re officially open for business today. Press release: TellPeoria, an exciting new business that links local business with local websites, is open for business and is accepting clients. People who own and operate Websites — anything from personal...
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I am a big money blogger, relatively speaking

July 3, 2009
By Billy Dennis

I got a huge chuckle out of this tidbit from Michael Miner in the Chicago Reader; In my column in this week’s print edition, I mistakenly said the Tribune was paying Chicago Now bloggers $5 per 10,000 hits. I called that the equivalent of carfare. I stand corrected: the Tribune’s paying $5 per 1,000 local hits,...
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Media: WEEK’s ads intruding on Olympic coverage

August 8, 2008
By Billy Dennis

I’m sitting here watching the opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games, and I’m growing increasingly annoyed at the annoying pop-up ad for Sherman’s that WEEK is running. It’s bad enough during regular television shows because they tend to make it hard to get lost in the story. But the graphics are covering up the...
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Blogging: Thinking big by thinking small

December 23, 2007
By Billy Dennis

Consider, please, these paragraphs from the Wall Street Journal: But time may be running out. Now, for the first time, pure-play Web companies have the biggest share of the local online-ad market. In 2007, Internet companies had a 43.7% share of the $8.5 billion local online-ad market, while newspaper companies had a 33.4% share, according...
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Blogging: Google AdSense lowers the boom

November 20, 2007
By Billy Dennis

I just now received this in my inbox: It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on your Google ads, posing a financial risk to our AdWords advertisers. Please note that any activity that may artificially inflate an advertiser’s costs or a publisher’s earnings is strictly prohibited by our program policies. We...
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Site issues: Detecting a theme … ad revenue

November 11, 2007
By Billy Dennis

I am really loving the response I’m getting for the current theme, “Quadruple Blue.” It allows for four columns, which I really like, yet doesn’t look cluttered. I’m going to bite the bullet and switch to this one permanently, or as permanent as I get. I’ve giving myself some incentive by posting a counter in...
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Save newspapers by rebuilding them

January 18, 2006
By Billy Dennis

I’ve expressed my admiration for Jeff Jarvis many times on this site. Once again, he impresses me with his advocacy for rebuilding newspapers from the ground up, taking into consideration that their Web sites can and will become more important their their dead-tree versions: And newspapers have to take an even more frightening step: They...
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