"How to Get Highly Targeted Traffic to Your Web Site by
Advertising Directly In Front of Your Audience!"

Dear Business Owner, 

If you’re not careful, placing ads in front of your market can rip your business budget to shreds. If you’ve ever tried pay per click, you know how fast your credit card charges can rack up. You can pay through the nose to include your link on a highly trafficked site.

So what’s the small business owner to do? How can you place your ads in front of the folks who need you most?  The solution? IdeaAds.

How to Conduct Product and Market Research with Idea Ads

If you’re ready to take your advertising to a higher level without the higher cost, follow the simple instructions below. Your market can be viewing your ad in a matter of minutes.

Placing Your Idea Ad

Watch this short video to see exactly how you can advertise in the face of your market for less than the cost of a lunch for one at a fast food restaurant. That’s the power of IdeaAds.

An "Idea Ad" is a text advertisement which runs on content in the category of your choice. They include a headline which links to the web address of your choice along with a brief description. We use a set-your-own-pricing model for displaying your Idea Ad. The price you set is called a "Bid." The top 5 Bidders in any subcategory (Like Business: Entrepreneur or Home:Parenting Teens) will appear on the right-hand side of all articles in that category. All bidders in a category (even if they aren't in the top 5) will appear along the right-hand side of the category you selected for the ad.

Step 1: Get a Free Account.

Step 2: Sign In.

Step 3: Upload Your Idea Ad (Under Upload, Idea Ad on the menu).

Step 4: Once you've added your Idea Ad to the system, you'll be prompted to decide how much you'd like to pay for placement. You'll also be shown how much people are currently paying for ads in your ad's category.

FAQ

How much traffic does IdeaMarketers.com Receive

We serve up between 9-10 million page views per month to approximately 600,000 unique visitors per month. The bulk of this traffic is going to our home page, articles, and press release pages.

How does the bidding system work?

We use a bidding system that lets you set your own price for advertising on our site. You may purchase "Idea Dollars" and then use those "Idea Dollars" to gain prominent positioning of your advertisement on articles and press releases in the category of your choice.  This is an ideal way to get your items picked up by spidering search engines (like Google, MSN, Ask, etc).

Items on our site are sorted from highest to lowest "bidder." Our bidding system is a set-your-own pricing model. For example, if someone pays $30/week for a position, their item will come up higher than someone who pays $20/week or $10/week. Bids last for 7 days or multiples thereof. 

How Long Does a Bid for Promotion Last?

All bids last for 1 week, but you may choose to submit a bid for several weeks at a time using our quantity option on our bidding form. For example, you can place a $5 bid to last for 10 weeks for a total of $50. If you bid again on an Idea Ad you have already bid on before it expires, any time remaining is erased and the bid starts over. For example, if you bid $30 for a spot on September 15th to last 1 week and come back on the 19th and bid $50, your bid in the system will be $50 and the effective start date of your bid will be the 19th.

How to Bid

From within your account, go to Upload, Advertisement on the menu. You'll be prompted to add your advertisement first, and then you can place a bid for placement.

When bidding, you'll be shown current bids for top positions for each category so you have an idea of what the category positions are going for so you can place an appropriate bid. If no bid amounts are listed, then there are no bids currently running in that category. Even a bid as low as $1 for the week could place you on that category!

You'll enter your bid amount, the number of weeks you'd like to bid for, then press the Calculate button to get a total. Once you've calculated the total and have the bid the way you want it, scroll down and submit the bid. You'll then be given a bid confirmation number which you should write down. Then click the Paypal link and pay for your bid. After your bid is successfully paid for, you'll be taken to a page where you can put in your unique confirmation number to activate your placement in the system.

Your Idea Ad will become live at that point.