Did you know your TOAN account supports up to 50 advertising spots? That’s 50 online advertising spots available for you to use to promote your businesses AND/OR sell to local businesses in your area.
What I did, recently, was reach out to a few businesses in my area. I told them I could run an ad test for them for 30 days to let them see if we could get more visitors to their web site. The cost would be $5.00.
You can set any price you like, of course, but think of it like this:
If you’re running just 5 ads in your account for your own business, you have 45 potential profit centers available to you. Sell those at just $5 per spot and that’s another $225 per month coming to you from advertisers you sell individual ad spots to. (45 x $5 = $225).
You may even want to let some businesses try a free ad spot for 30 days and, if they get visitors from the ad to their site, upgrade them to a $5 ad or even a $10 ad. (45 x $10 = $450).
It doesn’t have to get complicated. Tell your local business person, or a business person you met online, that you can promote their business on a rather highly visited web site. Collect the check or paypal, payza, etc… and set up the ad for them. You can do this month after month. Some of your advertisers will repeat their advertising spend monthly.
Your customers pay you directly. You can set up text ads or banner ads. If you know how to create banner ads, charge your customers and create the banners for them. If you don’t, you can buy banner ads from other services and add some profit to the price you charge your customers.
What does all this mean for you?
You can, of course, use all 50 ad spots to promote your business(es).
You can use some of the ads spots to promote your business and sell the rest.
This creates additional revenue for you in the form of retail advertising sales and allows you to make considerable income without every signing up someone to be in your downline. Of course, if they decide they would like their own account t0 run their own ads, that creates even more residual income for you!
Simple. Easy. Profitable.
Smart! I would like to try it! Brian how to do it?
“Tell your local business person, or a business person you met online, that you can promote their business on a rather highly visited web site. Collect the check or paypal, payza, etc… and set up the ad for them. You can do this month after month. Some of your advertisers will repeat their advertising spend monthly.
Your customers pay you directly. You can set up text ads or banner ads. If you know how to create banner ads, charge your customers and create the banners for them. If you don’t, you can buy banner ads from other services and add some profit to the price you charge your customers.”
I would definitely like to establish myself as the Local online Advertiser for the barbershops & beauty salons in the area.
Excellent! Keep us posted on how it’s working for you, Perry!
It sounds very good, but I’m not quite sure what it is for 50 spots I have and where I can find them, but otherwise it sounds like a very good idea.
The 50 spots are available in your account. You set the price for each ad spot. As to where you find the advertisers … online, in town, etc…
Very good idea to sell Ad spot to local business owners. Is it necessary that they should have a Website or they are selling online ? Because we are required to insert their URL. How about putting up Ads for businesses who don’t have websites ?
If they don’t have a web site, you would need to put the phone number and/or address in the ad itself so folks would be able to contact the business. Makes more sense to advertise online for those businesses who have web sites.
Thanks for this article Brian. I haven’t put much effort into reselling our ads since the large increase in traffic happened this year. Time to try this strategy.
Gray idea. What if the business wants to see the website their ad is being advertised on?
Show them this web site.
Another idea is tell a local business owner you will run them an ad if they are willing to put your business card in a visible place, high traffic part of their store. Preferably by their cash register.
Brian, you’re brilliant, man! I like this idea. Thanks for posting this. Perhaps you can show the business the trending activity of TOAN on Alexa? It could sweeten the pot.
Click the Alexa link at any time!
How do I acquire these 50 advertising spots?
You acquired them when you opened your account.
This is an awesome idea to make extra money by promoting local businesses.
Smart enough! I’m willing to give it a try!