For about a year now, we have received a number of requests to do advertising on the site.  I never had anything in place to manage it, but since the forum upgrade, I now have a way to allow you to do some self service promoting of your LEGO businesses.  We are just going to start simple. Two main areas.  One is the header where you can post a large 728x90 Banner that will be in the main header of the entire site.  That includes the homepage as well.  There will be up to 5 banners that can rotate in this position.  The flat rate for this type of banner will be $100 for 30 days.

 

We are also going to offer quite a few smaller 130x100 banners that will be posted at the bottom of the forum index page.  This is by far one of the more heavily viewed pages.  Each spot is your own.  It will not rotate with any other banner.  Right now there are 8 open positions.  Each spot is $25 for 30 days. You can see a bunch of placeholder graphics on the Forum Index page.  This is where the ads will go and the actual size of the ads.

 

Here is a chance for you to promote your Lego business.  Let people see your eBay store to help sell your current listings.  Later you will be able to promote your Brick Classifieds store as well.

 

The one rule is that it needs to be LEGO related.  All other ads will most likely be rejected.

 

If you are graphically challenged and have no idea how to make a banner, but would like to post one, send me a PM and I can help you come up with something to post.

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

No that is USD $. Not brick points.

Holy jeez that's cheap. Jeff's gonna have to referee the fights over available spots.

Holy jeez that's cheap. Jeff's gonna have to referee the fights over available spots.

Haha, classic repititon. Nice.

 

Perhaps the low prices will inspire a bidding war.

I am more of a collector/builder than a flipper, so I don't even really sell sets, but I am shocked of all the super sellers on here do not jump on this to help bring more attention to their eBay shops or Bricklink stores.  I mean a $25 investment in your business that may bring even a small percentage of extra eyes on your sets is worth it.  An extra sale here or there more than pay for it.  Maybe people here are not as business savvy as they make themselves appear to me.  I don't know?

 

Nice job though guys with the offer to help people boost their sales as well as support the site.

Jeff, can you create a sample so we can see what one would look like on the site?

 

 

Congrats to Quacs.  The first member to post an ad on the site.  He is pointing it to his blog.  Thank you Quacs!

 

By the way, for those of you who would want to play around with making an ad, here is a very nice FREE banner maker.

http://www.bannerfans.com/banner_maker.php

I suggest showing different ads dependent on the location of who is viewing.  You can sell more slots then and we will not all be competing with each other for a single slot that is only going to be relevant to a subset of the members.

 

Just split the viewership up into regions and sell slots per region, with a discount if someone wants all the regions.

 

What do you think?

I will worry more about placement and other stuff once all the other slots fill and there is a demand for more.  Right now it doesn't matter much since there are plenty of spots open and I can still ad more.  

... and I can still ad more.  

What, no one else noticed the pun there? That was great Jeff

Wow, Quacs you were actually serious about advertising your blog? Awesome sauce, man you are one hardcore blogger!

Can we perhaps do a banner swap?

I'm thinking of promoting my LEGO selling and this great website on my website.

Perhaps I can have a link to my listing page for my website in the signature for my account?

Thanks!

If you have ebay listings PM me your listings page and I will put it in your signature.  If you want to promote Brickpicker that would be great.

I noticed there is a new "Brick Closet" banner up top. Is that eBay store owned by a member here?

I noticed there is a new "Brick Closet" banner up top. Is that eBay store owned by a member here?

 

I think that will remain a mystery forever, and ever.

 

 

 

And ever.

I noticed there is a new "Brick Closet" banner up top. Is that eBay store owned by a member here?

I think that will remain a mystery forever, and ever.

 

 

 

And ever.

It is a nice banner, and I assume it is a member here. There's definitely some nice pieces/listings in there.

It is a member, but it's up to her/him to reveal it!! If she/he wants

I'd say they are our new, benevolent overlords, seeing as it's the only banner ad I've seen up there all day. 

It is a very smart move I'd say..good luck

It is a very smart move I'd say..good luck

Smart move not to reveal themselves or smart move to advertise?

Smart move not to reveal themselves or smart move to advertise?

To advertise .. I personally think that revealing his/ her identity is a personal decision that shouldn't be taken lightly

It is a member, but it's up to her/him to reveal it!! If she/he wants

Even if it takes....FOREVER!!!!

I will not say who the member is, but I will say that earlier today they said their traffic already doubled to store after a few hours. So yes, good traffic. I will stay in touch to see if there are sales.

I will not say who the member is, but I will say that earlier today they said their traffic already doubled to store after a few hours. So yes, good traffic. I will stay in touch to see if there are sales.

 

I know I clicked on it because I thought it was a website, not an eBay store... so there is going to probably be a big chunk of click-throughs like that.

 

I will say that if I knew WHO ran the store, I'd be more likely to buy. DNIIM and FC101 advertise their stores and I would feel better purchasing from them for no other reason that they represent an identity that I already know. An anonymous user, whether a BP regular or not, is no different than going through the regular eBay channels. Just my 2 cents.

I will say that if I knew WHO ran the store, I'd be more likely to buy. DNIIM and FC101 advertise their stores and I would feel better purchasing from them for no other reason that they represent an identity that I already know. An anonymous user, whether a BP regular or not, is no different than going through the regular eBay channels. Just my 2 cents.

 

I agree with you 100%, but that is up to them, not me.

The Brick Closet is my eBay Store - open to all shoppers!  I PMed Jeff yesterday about putting up a banner ad for two primary reasons: 

 

1. Finally hitting that mythical "100" positive feedback mark that many of you hit a long time ago.

2. Meeting the threshold for "Top Seller" status

 

Jeff is right - I saw a big uptick in visits to the site today.  I'll try to post some statistics on views, etc. once eBay's Traffic Reports feature comes available.  How many of those visits were from curious Brickpickers remains to be seen.

 

And Frog, nobody wants me as an overlord...

The Brick Closet is my eBay Store - open to all shoppers! 

Am I the only one who suddenly wants to buy something? Quacs, you are powering the advertising of this site lol

I see FCB has joined the club now. Very nice. Jeff, did you delete the posistion for the bottom page slots because I don't see them in the store? If only I had something to advertise lol.