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There are a lot of free internet marketing tools available but this is the best of the best… the ‘I can’t believe this is free’ kind of tools. These are tools you can add to your business arsenal that will save you money, increase profits and make you more efficient.
I have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars learning from the best “Gurus”, and some of the greatest things I’ve received are the secret tools, especially the free tools and how to use them. I have also spent countless hours searching for that perfect tool that will do a specific task with reliable, high quality and as automated as possible.
I am happy to list them here and hope they add to your success!
MONETIZING
Open X
This is an ad serving and banner rotation software. It is undoubtably one of the best free pieces of software around. Besides being able to rotate your own banners, html, text and track clicks it also has a new feature which you can sell ad space to the OpenX market if they can beat the CPM you have allocated in that Zone. Open X >> Read More
OpenX is an amazing piece of software that allows you to rotate banners, html, text and more on your website. With the option to host the software on your server or on the OpenX Community Hosted server, it is extremely flexible and available to anyone.
With so many options available for management and tracking this software can be as basic or as advanced as your marketing and advertising campaigns can get.
Keep an open mind as you don’t just need to use this for monetization and ad space. You can use it for testing different link text, opt in’s, images, special offers… it is endless!
A few highlights:
Manage ads across multiple websites
Manage multiple Advertisers
Manage multiple Campaigns for each advertiser
Manage Multiple banners for the Advertisers and Campaigns
Allocate Multiple zones on our website with different sized banners and ad space
Banners can be images, html, text, video
Detailed statistics on Advertisers, Campaigns and Banners plus Websites and Zone breakdowns
Advanced reporting exported as Excel document
Revenue Tracking and ECPM
To increase the value of this software you can place ad space on the Open X market that allows advertisers to bid on your zone, and show banners but only if they beat a price specified by you… this means your space always has prime ads showing.
Why would you host it yourself?
The OpenX Community hosted is free up to 100 million ad impressions per month then you would need to go onto a premium hosted package called Enterprise Hosted which has more features but is a monthly subscription.
Watch the videos and let your mind wander with the possibilities!
NOTE: DreamHost have on click install of OpenX which is a dream if you are not technical but want to have control and host it yourself.
How To Use OpenX – An Overview
Open X Statistics
Open X Market Introduction
This is an introduction to the Open X Market which allows advertisers to bid on your zones. You can add your own banners and ads and when the advertisers from Open X market beat your specified CPM, they will automatically add the advertisers banner to your Zone. This means you are never left without a monetizd banner yet you are always getting the maximum price possible.
This is an amazing piece of software I am very grateful I discovered through Jeff Johnson’s Underground Training lab… thanks Jeff! I could not be without it now… get it and give it a go. It is a small learning curve but is actually very easy to use.
There are a lot of free internet marketing tools available but this is the best of the best… the ‘I can’t believe this is free’ kind of tools. These are tools you can add to your business arsenal that will save you money, increase profits and make you more efficient.
