Client “Budget”

Watching bright future

One simple advice to all clients who want to go online and do “real-some-thing”.. first re-think and re-calculate your budget. Second, find an appropriate agency (freelancer/team .. ) and tell him/them what is your budget & goal for this project.

Why is this approach GOOD.

Client knows what is his budget limit – based on his business performance or future expectations/opportunities ..

Real down to business freelancer/team/agency/.. knows what make sense to do online, what works & what doesn’t, he knows time frames for deliveries, prices, trends, ROI issues, opportunities etc..

Simply it saves time and delivers the best ideas/results for the client. It creates strong, efficient and creative bond between client & agency. Client wants new market or to reinforce existent one and agency wants steady income, chance/time to do something great/new/fresh/.. with real business results. Why with “real measured results” – because client will work again with that agency and others will recognize you and your work which will produce more good work in the future for the agency.

If we go back at the beginning of our carriers we’ll remember that we’ve wanted to CREATE something GOOD, VALUABLE, NEW so others will have respect for us and everything that comes with it – new work, new clients, freedom, profit, chance to meet new interesting people, see new places, create new ideas…

Isn’t it great.

The Great online battle

Man carrying coal on his back

Business model of crisis

I wish crisis would end soon.
It’s just that kind of bad felling that comes along with crisis. Depression and such.

But I would love to last a bit longer.

Why?

Clients that survive will be ready to go after business, at right price and quality devoted to advertising or meaningful online presence.

In case you are a crook, time’s up, you can not deliver nothing and be payed.

Banner peril

Forcing rock solid and profitable business model beyond it’s life time is nice. In business books, authors call this business model – cash cow.

The real problem lies it the fact that there are more profitable business models, which fit more naturally into online media frames, but medias are ignoring it. Banners are one of them.

We see banners evolve into one banner-like ad per page, giving perception of ad, returning value for client. Too many and you are crooking customer/reader.

We sorted out 3 reasons why media publishers stick to this old business model.

Is it either ’cause:

• media does not have control over content of contextual ads and is forced to stick to what they know best
• advertising network is picking most of the ad display/click price and media publisher is not ready to share
• media does not know how to handle anything except banners which perfectly fits into advertising department

Neither way, we live in the place where media publishing companies without real strategy, do not work on proper delivery of online ads.

At the end, we all suffer. Without bigger turnover, and proper setup of ad blocks and content which will be read or watched online, we can not expect to prosper and make serious buck. What we can expect is ad networks abandon the markets.