As a marketer, I know that traditional pixel advertising is well… very ugly to look at.  It’s no secret that when the original pixel advertising site grossed over US $1,000,000.00 there would be plenty of copycats, however these copycats not only copied the winning formula, but also the most unattractive qualities including the clutter, lack of design and being visually unappealing to viewers.

Since then many webmasters have tried to tinker with the formula to come up with a concept that is both visually appealing to viewers and able to deliver an extremely high return of investment for advertisers. While surfing, I found a pixel ad site that finally delivers a clean, smooth design and the concept is “world changing”.

Buyanation.com is not your typical pixel ad website.  On first view, there is absolutely no clutter, just a large map of the world.  Buyanation.com has a very interesting concept.  Instead of selling pixel ads in generic blocks scattered throughout the site, advertisers can purchase pixels ads in the shape of countries on a map.  Ever wanted to own Canada, now is your chance, Russia, Australia, Italy and even the US are up for sale.  For advertisers, the prices vary depending on three criteria; area (pixels), desirability of the country and location on the world map.  For instance, even though Russia takes up the most land mass in the world, it is still not as much as the US, due to its desirability rating.

One great thing is that this concept is well thought out.  As a marketer, I am always thinking about making sure I am in front of as many eyeballs as possible, for smaller countries such as Switzerland, Panama, or even the Czech Republic, how do these advertisers get noticed.  I am happy to inform my fellow marketers that BuyaNation.com has an ingenious feature built into the site; it is called “View a Continent”.  Visitors to the site can choose to view the site in many ways, either as a world map, by clicking on the specific country or viewing the site in continental regions.  No matter how small your country may be in land mass BuyaNation.com does a great job in showcasing it.  In addition to just showing you the ads, BuyaNation.com also allows advertiser to include a profile.

For advertisers not familiar with the benefits of Pixel ad sites, they have been around for about 2 years and for those in the know, these sites are a great investment for many reasons.  First off, pixel ad sites usually receive lots of traffic.  Not only will the webmaster work hard to promote the site, but so will the hundreds of other webmasters that own pixels on the site as well.  Secondly, you get to choose your advertisement.  For instance with BuyaNation.com’s profile feature, you can communicate more effectively to those that view your ad.  While traditional websites only allow a text ad or an ad that must meet strict specifications, pixel ad sites are very accommodating to advertisers.

Another great reason that pixel ad sites should not be missed is the fantastic return on investment.  Advertisers can get a lot of bang for their buck, because pixel ad sites stay up for 5 years or more.  Whether you spend $20 or a couple hundred dollars for an ad, you don’t have to worry that it will be removed in a month’s time.  Most Pixel ad sites stay for at least 60 times that amount.

For those advertisers that are constantly looking for a winning concept, BuyaNation.com delivers the World.

You can visit BuyaNation.com at the following URL:  http://www.buyanation.com

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Well, I am still laughing my arse off with what’s happening to the Domain market lately.

It seems like every single pal in the world is starting to discover that 4 letter domains are worth a damn lot of money.

Well, it is probably late now, at least to grab cheap bargains!

The minimum wholesale for these is now at $50 well, probably $70 unless you are dealing in bulk, and I don’t expect it to go lower anytime near… or ever again…

All the LLLL (4 letters).com have been registered and are unavailable since November, 2nd, 2007, and all the Premium LLLL.nets are registered since a couple of days also, so now you have 2 chances, either you go to the market and buy them at market price, or you try to grab a few of the last LLLL.net’s still available.

I’m glad I have a nice mix of those… around 400 500 atm!

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Now here’s something very cool!

Yahoo just announced a very nice plugin for wordpress - Yahoo Shortcuts.

If you’re a wordpress blogger and have at least version 2.2 of the script installed, I’m sure you’ll have a nice time integrating this new plugin from the giant US company.

With Yahoo Shortcuts for wordpress you can easily and almost automatically integrate images, maps, financial information and many other features into your blog, and all this without having to handle copyright problems with images or having to copy/paste or keep resizing images so they best fit your posts!

Go ahead, give this a try, I’m sure you’ll be pleased.

Check out this yahoo shortcuts video demo!

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Oh no!?!

I tell you what, it was nothing but 5 minutes since I was born and people were already flaming me for being myself…

/Acting like my Grandmother mode on

Look, he’s so cute, he looks just like his mother…

Gosh, his feet smell so bad, just like his father…

/GM mode off

Come on people, do you know what is being a star for you stinky shoes for over 30 years?!?

I’m already a Shoeperstar!

I’m not? **Confused**

Then… wait… what the hell is a shoeperstar then?

Jeremy is? Woot???!!!

Ahah! Let me laugh… I’m gonna shoe… no wait, show that bald guy what shoeperstar means, just wait until I take me shoes off in the middle of the conference!

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It’s been ages now since I wanted to put down to words some random thoughts I have on this so called web business.

I participate in quite a few webmaster forums, such as Digital Point, Sitepoint, Namepros and so on, and I see people making the biggest webmaster mistake over and over…

They think small!

Yes, read again, they think small!

Do you actually think you’ll ever get rich selling links to other webmasters, selling templates, newly created websites or whatever? Forget about it!

Digital Point, for example, has over 118,800 members (~ 42,000 are active) by the time I’m writing these lines, and you can’t even imagine how many of those are making over $1000 per day from various advertising programs and affiliate plans, and you know why?

Because they’ve noticed the world has 6.6 billion inhabitants and, according to the latest internet world stats, at least 1.2 billions use the internet… have you ever thought about this?

Are you still trying to sell stuff to 42,000 people when you have 1,248,357,426 potential buyers out there? Get a life!

Your real business is not inside webmaster forums, your real “becoming a millionaire” opportunity is not inside webmaster communities! Of course business can be done there, but the greatest deal you can get there is “knowledge”, something you just don’t buy out there, you can learn a lot from those forums, from being part of a community, from helping others out, but most surely you won’t get rich selling stuff to other webmasters.

Even if you sell a lot of links, blog posts, websites, directory listings and services, you’ll be only reaching to around 0,00336% of the internet users, meaning the huge potential is still out there.

It’s time to start thinking BIG, it’s time to direct your websites to the real world.

Stop and think… turn your way round and you might just have a chance.

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