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AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

How Do I Start Selling Ads For My Site?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Tom is getting traffic to his site and would like to sell advertising. He asks me how to get started, both with sales and with plugins. Tom's site is http://howtobecomeanappraiser.com/. Do you have a question about advertising? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

AskPath.

0:07.0

What's up everybody, Pat Flynn here, and welcome to episode 122 of Ask Pat. Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:17.5

You know, today's episode is brought to you by FreshBooks.com.

0:20.4

FreshBooks is an amazing, easy- use cloud-based accounting software that you could use

0:25.8

for invoicing, keeping track of all the financials of your business, something I wish I knew

0:30.4

about when I was first starting out.

0:32.3

It seriously could have saved me a ton of time, not to mention a ton of headaches, too.

0:36.9

I was using, I think I was using

0:38.2

Excel in the beginning. And man, FreshBooks just makes it so much easier. Get FreshBooks.com

0:44.1

and enter show, Ask Pat to start your free trial today. Seriously, and especially if you're

0:50.1

creating invoices, you know, you can capture and track expenses and do all that good stuff.

0:58.6

FreshBooks is just, is made just for you if those are the things you're creating invoices, you know, you can capture and track expenses and do all that good stuff. FreshBooks is just, is made just for you if those are the things you're doing. So again,

1:04.6

get freshbooks.com and enter Ask Pat in the How'd You Hear About Us section. Okay, now let's get to today's question from Tom. Hi, Pat. My name is Tom Siegel. I have a site at how to Become an Appraiser.com. I created a site as a resource for those interested in becoming real estate appraisers. I'm a commercial real estate appraiser myself and I thought I could provide some insights to those interested in the profession. When I created this site, I put up a few posts, and it didn't really get any attention,

1:28.5

and I stopped paying attention to it, focused on other things.

1:31.8

However, it seems recently there's been some focus and attention paid to my site, and I thought

1:37.0

I would ramp up the content and make it a real viable resource for those interested.

1:42.7

As I'm doing that, I was thinking about different ways to monetize the site,

1:46.8

and it seems as though private advertising would be a good way to go for me.

1:50.7

However, I don't know the first thing about private advertising in terms of what to charge for ads,

1:56.6

where to put the ads, if there should be a different charge for different placements,

2:02.0

and if maybe there's a WordPress plugin that would help me with all that.

2:05.9

In any case, thanks for all that you do with this site. I really appreciate the format.

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