What type of ads would you click on if they were up there? With the diverse locations of the posters, I would approach National Advertisers. As we are for the most part, 20-30 somethings, appear for the most part to be articulate, possibly affluent or have the possiblity of future affluence, advertisers should be fighting over us!
Travel agencies,
coke/pepsi
car companies - esp nontraditional ones like Saturn
Investment companies - they would be a perfect fit here, as we are all intelligent enough to understand the need to plan for the future
chapters, or other national chains of bookstores
C’mon guys, any other ideas?
I have to be honest, I never even notice the ad banners. I’ve developed a focused blind spot when it comes to them, unless they plastered everydamplace on the website.
Now if only I could develop a deaf ear for car commercials.
Honestly * , I’m with vogue, I was thinking ‘who WOULD I like to see, yum yum, up on a banner’, rats!!
Anything with computer/music/books would make me click on it. That’s what I shop for most online. CDNow, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. That help, kelli??
There was an interesting banner at NetZero that made me click too, it had to do with sending e mail greeting cards. I don’t remember the name of the company though.
Judy
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Given the number of tech-types who post here, the various jobs/career sites ought to be advertising here. Also companies that sell hardware and software to tech businesses, since some posters here have to be in a capacity to make or influence purchasing decisions.
Other than that, I’ll second some of what the others said. I’m surprised not to have seen a banner for amazon or barnesandnoble.com a long time ago; smart people read a lot more than the typical American. Other good fits would be cdnow, zdnet, travelocity, the airlines themselves, anyone selling consumer software or gadgetry, intelligent webzines (e.g. salon.com), etc.
In some parts of the country, the word is, there isn’t enough advertising space/time for all the dot-coms that want to get some public exposure. In such an environment, there ought to be some ad bucks to be made on this site.
We do a lot of searching around here - maybe some search engines would like to lure us into their clutches, er, sites.
Or how about reference sites like britannica.com and the aforementioned imdb? I wouldn’t mind being able to point and click on an ad banner to reach those places - easier than opening favorites.
