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Vincent Sparreboom November 11th, 2008 8:35 am Great video Gary Vaynerchuk really Rocks.
I contacted all sorts of companies for all my blogs. Not only when I started out but also when I was on a role.
I made a ton of money via ads, reviews and campaigns and what I did is contacting the networks on clickbank, Shareasale, CJ etc.
There is so much money out there, the only thing is; it isn’t coming to you!!!! You have to get it yourself!!!
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Jordan Drake November 11th, 2008 8:44 am Gary is great - who else on the web could bring this kind of streetwise practical advise with such panache?
And - from experience - everything the PS says in this post is true as well.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Computer Guy November 11th, 2008 8:48 am Great advice! I think my blog’s numbers have grown to the point where something like thise would be feasable and it doesn’t hurt to try right?
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Nathan Rice November 11th, 2008 8:51 am I wish Gary would use a video service other than the absolutely terrible Viddler. Vimeo and Blip.tv are both far more reliable, in my experience. They have great quality video and don’t clutter the video screen with controls.
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WTL November 11th, 2008 8:58 am Oh, I hadn’t seen this. Thank you for passing it along
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Jeff P
November 11th, 2008 9:06 am
What a team - Darren and GaryVee. Great onsite demo of how to pull off gaining an advertiser.
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Monologue Blogger November 11th, 2008 9:13 am Gary kick’s ass! =)
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Kyle Dylan Conner November 11th, 2008 9:14 am This definitely does work.
When I first started my blog and wasn’t in a blog ad network yet, I would contact company’s that were close in my niche. I gained about three sponsors in the first month from reaching out to them.
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Cristhian Bedon November 11th, 2008 9:17 am This is great, sometimes just reading does not help, visual learning for some, helps them go far. Thanks Darren.
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Alex Fraiser November 11th, 2008 9:17 am I found this link on Twitter, this guy is awesome and his advice is killer.
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John November 11th, 2008 9:17 am proactive. nice.
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Wayne John November 11th, 2008 9:19 am Simply excellent advice. Still, if you don’t have those numbers floating through your site, you might even still get local brick and mortar shops to advertise too on a more focused, local level.
Not sure what I might be able to do given my blog’s personal nature. Typing in my targeted keywords in Google results in no advertisers on the right side….what to do…what to do.
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Chris Andrew November 11th, 2008 9:23 am Great post, Love the GaryV video too. An encouraging post that a lot more people should look into capitalizing on.
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Chris M November 11th, 2008 9:25 am Awesome, thanks for posting this Darren. I’m having problems with the video, but will try again first thing in the morning.
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Tumblemoose November 11th, 2008 9:33 am This is where it’s so important to be part of your local community and not just a social media one.
Getting out and about in your town, building relationships, remember this is about REAL people, ultimately.
Cheers
George
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Oli Kenobi November 11th, 2008 9:51 am Awesome video dude!
I love the call.
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FSM November 11th, 2008 10:02 am great video. this is the way everybody should do it. if you want to help people , help them in a friendly , charismatic way. everybody is promoting themselves through videos today, but not everybody is ready for that yet. search youtube for howto videos and see how many of them are sooooooo f’ing boring. maybe some of those videos are giving people ( interested on that particular subject ) the “key to the city” , but…. nobody is watching them after 1-2 minutes. Look at Gary… he didnt tell me or you the secret of live in this video. everybody ( i think ) knew this ; but… he knew how to create this video, in order for you to watch it. And that is not a bad thing. some of us got something new out of this video, and he got some new fans. win-win :D
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James Spinosa November 11th, 2008 10:18 am I completely agree that you need to reach out to your local community in more ways than one, you can use them for advertising resources but you can also utilize local news broadcasts, etc. to increase your visitor base. Everyone loves the hometown hero.
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JR Griggs November 11th, 2008 10:43 am Very nicely done. I had actually started looking for ads on other sites that were similar to mine and the first one I contacted I got as an affiliate. I used to do sales so that always helps as well when you are selling your blog. Everyone is a salesman, no matter what you do. You just have to realize that one day and you have great success!
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How to Live in Canada November 11th, 2008 12:07 pm That’s sure good stuff. However, how much are we going to ask when they want to advertise on our blogs? Based on what? How do we know how much we will charge?
I’m getting some requests on my blog and unfortunately I don’t know the answer yet.
Any ideas?
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Brad November 11th, 2008 12:14 pm Great advice! My advertising relies only on Google and Amazon at the moment, and I’d love to expand out and with more advertisers and skipping the middle man!
Thank you!
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Gilberto J Perera November 11th, 2008 12:27 pm Thanks for this post, I’m in the process of looking for advertisers for my blog, very timely!
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James
November 11th, 2008 12:52 pm
Nice! But you need to produce a lot of traffic first. The other thing is you need to have a specific niche on your blog. I found a lot of blogs that write about anything but produce huge traffic. I don’t think advertisers will be interested on this kind of blogs..
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Robert Barr November 11th, 2008 1:30 pm So the next question is how to price your ads??
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TheAndySan November 11th, 2008 2:01 pm Wow! I’m a new fan of Gary!
And now, to figure out what niche I am…
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Sachin November 11th, 2008 2:35 pm awesome awesome…will follow asap
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syokbeb November 11th, 2008 3:16 pm Yes,we come to the advertiser with some prove of traffic that we can give them….
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Michael Aulia November 11th, 2008 3:39 pm I guess it’s harder if you have a blog/site that is not focused on one specific area
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Walt Ribeiro November 11th, 2008 4:52 pm So true. This is exactly what I do for my Music Lesson Blog. Great advice Gary!
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Juliemarg November 11th, 2008 5:40 pm Gary
You are spectacular! I think I’m in love :^D
