trienthusiast

Hello,

at the present time, advertising on my site is managed by a company that sells ads to relevant companies then serves them on my site, filling the remaining inventory with other ad networks.

At this time, they do the selling and the serving. I receive a monthly check which is the ad sales minus their commission (50%), minus serving costs.

There is no reporting, I never get any other detail other than the final amount.

Because of this - I would like to start moving to my own adserver (bonus if I don't need to physically host it myself) and just plug the ads that they sell.

How complicated is it? Worth the effort in your opinion, counting that I don't want to do any selling myself ?

Also, a big chunk of revenue is lost because they don't do responsive ads. All ads are sold on a desktop pageview basis and I know nowadays you can place some kind of placeholder and it will be rendered with a properly sized ad depending on the resolution.

Am i getting into a lot of trouble for wanting to do this on my own?

Hi ! I run a medium product review blog that reviews approximately 100 products a year across a team of 10 testers.

I want a software to help me streamline/track the process.

Basically I would like to

- keep the details of the testers (names, addresses, general info, history)

- keep the details of the companies (people/email addresses)

- keep track of what products each company is about to release this year with a release date

- track each product across the review cycle (requested from company, shipped to reviewer, test in progress, review received, review entered on site, review published)

It would obviously be amazing if all the steps could be assigned to a person and documents attached and reports run (ie on what a tester has on his pipeline, what products are in the "released but not shipped yet" status) etc.

I started using Trello which is OK, but does not do all I need

Thank you all for the suggestions!

This is what I want to do

a) users submit their own generated content on my website through a page with forms

b) content gets to me to be moderated

c) I approve the content and it goes live on a section of the website

d) users promote their content to their connections

e) content with the most likes/pins/tweets/+1s at the end of the period wins (ie an ipad)

PROBLEMS

1) facebook states you can't use likes as voting system. But this is for a competition on the website, not on the facebook page. Does it still apply ?

2) It seems there are apps that automate most of this, but these are for facebook. I'd like all the action to be on the website and social media as a sharing/voting platform

Does anybody have any experience in this?

Thank you

Hi. In the last three years I have launched and run a website that now has 200k+ visitors a month, 1k$+/month in Adsense, 2k$ in affiliate sales.

Real facebook fans, relationships with the companies that supply the products we review, good writers....

But it's taking all my spare time away and family life is suffering (especially because I am about to embark in another biz adventure).

I am evaluating selling it, but would like to speak with a professional first to see what it's possibly worth.

Anybody who can recommend a good broker?

Hi. A friend and I (European) are thinking about producing a product in China, shipping it to the US and selling it online through a shopify store.

I believe we have to set up an American company for this. I tried to Google for information but the first results I got look a little scammy.

Can anybody share their experience or recommend a company? Also we would love to know experiences with fulfillment companies or amazon fulfillment.

Thank you for the help.