Managing Our Adsales
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“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them. ~Elbert Hubbard”
Now that sounds familiar! We’ve been having a hard time selling our adspace -not that there’s no interest, but it seems email isn’t as reliable as we sometimes like to think. We receive several questions regarding ad sales each week, and usually we follow up right away with an answer if there’s a spot available or not. The funny thing is that nearly 80% of those replies never get an answer back to us. At first we thought people were just being rude but after a while and some warnings we found out that our replies end up in people’s spam filters – a lot!
These people now probably think we’re the rude ones since we don’t answer them, so it’s not just money we’re losing out on; It’s also our reputation that’s suffering. Seriously, we try to answer anyone that ever emails us, doesn’t matter if it’s related to making money for us or not. We’ve just been brought up the right way and know that it’s merely polite to take the time to reply to someone’s email.
So having said that, we’re still waiting for confirmation of payment from 6 people that bought a text link ad a few days ago and a couple of banner/button ads that are available as per today. To facilitate this little problem, we’ve decided to use a new gmail account that will handle all sales queries from now on, hoping it’ll actually reach you, our dear potential customers for whom we have loadsa <3 
If you've skipped lunch often enough this month and sitting on all that milkmoney, perhaps you should just give it all to us make a wise investment and purchase some ad space with us so the rest of the Internet will find your site. We’d love to help you out 
I’ve thought the same thing about email – it is unreliable for ad sales much of the time. If one link in the chain gets lost or gets chucked out by mistake as spam, things breakdown.
Considering the popularity of RSS with bloggers, it seems to me that private ad sales could be managed more efficiently if each user (or rather each email address, combined with a random string) could have an RSS Feed created. So when an ad gets approved or payment is needed, its added to the personal sales feed. Advantage is that as long as the site is up, the messages can always be looked up.
Not entirely without selfish motives here though. I brought it up since I have a module in development for OIOpublisher that does just that. User chooses email or RSS communication (or both). RSS derivatives are the future I reckon.
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Sincerely not interested in advertising with you, sorry guys, but I’ll keep on reading don’t worry, I’m not giving up on you, someday you’ll have something interesting to write, I’m sure.
I’ve had that problem too and ended up making a special Hotmail account just for sending “important” messages..
PS- that last email you sent to me WAS in my gMail spam-box
I think my spam filter removes email content that contains potentially offensive keywords like “milk”, “cows”, “udders”, “moo”, “milkers”, and “milking”
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Very very true Milk Man. I have had problems in the past with my e-mails getting into spam folders and it really just pisses me off.
-Mike
oh, maybe that explains why you didnt respond to my requests for stuff…. or is it that you are secretly jealous? you tell me.
Simon: We’re definitely going to give OIOpublisher a spin later this week. Thanks for your extensive email which explained the whole proces
James: That’s ok, we just had a look at your site and we think it’s very noble of you not to expose our fans to your linkbait attempts.
And Israel: Don’t you ever get tired of yourself?
Hey Cow, it sounds like you have more than just a spam-catch problem. Maybe you just need some training on closing the sale? How do you expect to close deals with just a simple email? You gotta sell it baby! Get the digits and make the call and close close close!
Glengarry Glenross would be a great movie for you to rent. Next, try Boiler Room.
You may be good at “Making Mooney Online” but you could be better if you were a closer! Coffee is for closers!
(no criticising here…just funning with you and making a soft point at the same time)
Yeah spam filers can be a doozy but I believe you should ask the people to advertise on entrecard because I get responses back from people fast I think it is the best place to communicate by mail for bloggers or site owners
I've thought the same thing about email – it is unreliable for ad sales much of the time. If one link in the chain gets lost or gets chucked out by mistake as spam, things breakdown.
Considering the popularity of RSS with bloggers, it seems to me that private ad sales could be managed more efficiently if each user (or rather each email address, combined with a random string) could have an RSS Feed created. So when an ad gets approved or payment is needed, its added to the personal sales feed. Advantage is that as long as the site is up, the messages can always be looked up.
Not entirely without selfish motives here though. I brought it up since I have a module in development for OIOpublisher that does just that. User chooses email or RSS communication (or both). RSS derivatives are the future I reckon.