Well, I made it (at least I'm being honest)

  • Plugin Author Broadstreet

    (@broadstreetads)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    Newspaper subscriptions are drying up — you cant rely on end-readers to bankroll your site, until now.

    Selfie is a classified-like self-serve ad tool. You’re readers can book text-only ads right on your site — no leaving the page, not uploading banners, just simple, attractive text.

    Just place the [selfie] shortcode in a post, and boom, a buyable slot.

    Think — you’ll never know which of your readers are potential advertisers. You can’t reach out to everyone and pitch them an ad for your header or sidebar.

    Why not give them a chance to pimp their on cause while supporting your site?

    Give it a try. Many of our publishers are already having success with it.

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  • Your company site never responded to my concerns.
    1. Total lack of control over who the advertisers might be and if they might conflict with your own standards of acceptability.
    2. You could not provide ONE link to a website that uses this.
    3. As a site becomes more popular … you can or cannot renegotiate the terms of the contract. ???
    4. As a former manager of a large Nursery I would never use “text only” advertising in the newspaper. It was a no winner then and remains so today.
    5. Do you really want your website cluttered with personal ‘facebook’ adds pushing God knows what on your pages? Again NO CONTROL! (Lonely Stud muffin seeks mate a few years younger than himself. Asian women welcome!)

    As long as they pay their dues to Broadstreet its legitimate. Still don’t know how these persons can put up a contact link on their ad. Must go through Broadstreet.
    6. Any such second party plug in will slow your site down.

    All that said, I like the idea of ads being able to be put on individual pages using a form. Most widgets or ads will past onto ALL your pages something I do not like.

    https://www.sweetgeodes.com/

    I will look into a plug in that can create forms that might incorporate a bossiness card picture and a link to the advertiser.

    Well, I must take back some of my negative comments. The folks at Broadstreet did get back to me and gave me a link to a site that uses it.

    https://cliffviewpilot.com/car-strikes-mother-toddler-in-stroller-after-fort-lee-cops-in-crosswalk-pedestrian-decoy-detail-wraps-up/

    After viewing the story one can hit the ‘selfie’ explanation that was below.

    https://cliffviewpilot.com/about-self-serve-messages/

    They further explained another issue of mine:

    “The messages are only allowed on the site if they are approved. The advertiser gets an email first, so that one piece of data is legit. Secondly, the publisher gets an email before anything goes live, or anyone gets charged.” Program still needs tweeking so the plug in does not install a generic post at the TOP of you main website, before you even have time to edit the settings as one does in with weather sites etc.

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