Advertising :: What do you think?
I have a quick listener question for you guys. I am currently looking at our advertising and trying to figure out just what advertising we should have both here on the web site and in the podcast. I was racking my brain trying to think of some vendors, sure I thought of a few that I thought were suitable for our audience, but then I thought; well that might not be what you think.
So sound off people, tell us what you think. What companies and services do you think would be good for the GGP. I am not about to fuel anything by telling you about the ones that I thought of because I don’t want to sway opinion. Even if you just make one suggestion that’s cool. I would like to come up with about 10.
This could mean some goodies or discounts for you our valued listeners. The companies that you suggest need to be relevant to the show, global and sell their services and or products online.
Get the brain juice going and let me know. Thanks in advance and I am hoping the info you give me will mean that we are listening to our audience! Either that or I will have to go with the Farmer Pat’s Fruit Store that offered last week.
Dave
August 19th, 2007 at 7:24 am
I’d like to see you guys use Thinkgeek as a possible vendor. Everything they have is golden. Maybe sponsored blog reviews could be an option? Theres always adsense, text link ads and the like.
Maybe for apparel, you could look into http://www.jinx.com/ I’m pretty sure you guys have mentioned them on the show before, now that I think about it.
Then theres audible.com which seems to be making the rounds on multiple podcasts as of late.
Hmm are there any web 2.0 sites and services willing to pay for audio based advertising?
August 19th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Some great suggestions there Jeff.
We have actually already approached ThinkGeek and they have knocked us back, saying something along the lines that they are not doing the kind of sponsorship that we were wanting.
Tim loves Jinx (I think) that is a great suggestion.
Audible is basically downloadable audio books, is that something our listeners would want - bearing in mind that most are probably into torrents… I will leave the rest to you imagination. But I could be wrong. Anyone?
We have actually had an offer from at least one website that wants to work with us that is a new web 2.0 company. The only thing here is that these start-ups are usually running on a shoe-string budget and don’t have that much to splash around. BUT they might be willing to get into some sort of listener deal or giveaway.
We also have another company that we are very excited about and we are working on a deal with them.
Thanks for your thoughts Jeff.
August 20th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
I’d like to see gadgets and gadget accessory advertising. Gadget bags, like stuff from rushfaster.com.au (where you can choose a bag based on the dimensions of your laptop) or ifrogz iPod skins.
Your listeners tend to be early adopters and fairly tech savvy, so items they’re likely to purchase are your best bet.
Smartphones and PDAs, like stuff from ow.com.au or even eBay.
Locally there’s latestbuy.com.au which carries some ThinkGeek like items.
Skype me if you want a larger list.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:58 am
Hey, I was thinking something like AlienWare (www.alienware.com). As you all probably know, they make killer workstations, laptops, etc. Might check them out?
August 21st, 2007 at 9:58 am
Nathan great, that was one I thought of and could not remember the name, thanks.
I don’t think you have commented before - if you have you used a different email, thank you for contributing!
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:24 am
I have emailed the show a few times recently asking about RSS readers, podcast software and just commenting on the show, but this is the first comment I made on the blog. I have since left a few more comments on other postings I’ve read. Keep up the great work GGP! You guys rock!
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:39 am
You might also try a few of the shopping places like MWave (www.mwave.com), NewEgg (www.newegg.com), Tiger Direct (www.tigerdirect.com), CompUSA (www.compusa.com), eWiz (www.ewiz.com), Best Buy (www.bestbuy.com) and Circuit City (www.circuitcity.com) although the last two would probably be tough to land.
You also might want to check out the pricing sites like PriceWatch (www.pricewatch.com). There was another one that I was thinking of, but I can’t remember it’s name.
If you want to go for some big ones, you could also try some of the hardware companies like PNY, ASUS, Intel and others like that.
Just some ideas.
Nathon
August 24th, 2007 at 1:52 am
All great suggestions Nathon and thanks for contributing to the show and giving us feedback! You are the one that rocks
September 6th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Dave thanks to you, as I was checking out my feeds, I came across http://www.startupschwag.com/