August 26, 2008

FAIL: Modesto Bee website

By : Roy
Filed under : business

They can’t even get there own advertisments right, what makes you think they’ll get yours right?  Frontpage of the Modesto Bee’s website today gets you this hideous advertisement as you are trying to read the latest headlines, practically begging you to subscribe to the paper edition:

I was curious as to how this could be the [...]


August 24, 2008

The Modesto Bee/McClatchy just don’t get it, fail local businesses

By : Roy

The talk around business circles is that The Modesto Bee has made some pretty significant changes:  ad design work is being outsourced to a firm overseas and the printing of the paper has been taken to The Sacramento Bee facility. The Bee has also reduced its workforce by 7 percent, and last week, offered voluntary layoffs to [...]


March 13, 2008

Google Ad Manager Beta Invitation

By : Roy
Filed under : advertising, google

Google announced the release of a new beta product for advertisers today called Google Ad Manager. I currently run a few different sites, and in my quest to try and make them profitable (besides providing it with great content) I try to manage advertising for each of these sites.
On this site I am using Text-Link-Ads [...]