Buy Me A Ferrari

As I mentioned on my other blog, FerrariDave, I need some competition entries!!

Neither competition has received any entries what-so-ever yet

So… what I am going to do is, the first person who enters themselves into this competition will automatically win 1x £2 scratch card and 2 months free advertising on Buy Me A Ferrari, in an ad block of their choice.

Please, please enter into the competition, there is huge potential for this prize!

Good Luck!

I recently came across an interesting forum post by Viraj on the Blogger to Blogger forum - the post itself was asking why bloggers still list their prices in dollars rather than pounds.

This made me think as I am from the United Kingdom and therefore my primary currency is GBP (Great British Pounds), however, I still charge for advertising in dollars.

At the time of writing my advertising page, I thought that listing my prices in dollars would be more widely accepted with most viewers coming from the US. Thinking about it now though, even if the advertiser is from the States, there’s no reason why they couldn’t pay in pounds using Paypal.

If I’m advertising somewhere, I have to pay in dollars usually so can’t see it being much of a problem if people have to pay me in pounds.

I’m now off to update my advertise page with updated prices.

Let’s see how this turns out, if you have any comments let me know as I’d love to hear your thoughts.

After my post last night about free advertisement to try and get things going, a couple of people got in touch.

Both of the two lucky enough to grab themselves free ad slots opted for a 125×125 banner above the fold, and the two can now be seem, on the sidebar on the right.

The first person to take me up on my offer was Pam Hoffman from Internet Marketing Seminar Listing Service. Pam found the site through Entrecard and took me up on the offer straight away. She blogs about different internet marketing seminars. Give her site a click and have a look at her blog.

The second person to take me up on the free ad slot was Viraj from Blogger To Blogger - a blog and a cool forum; which if you are a blogger, you should join. I’ve been a member on there for a while now and like the community over there. Give his banner a click and get talking.

Thanks to both of the above for taking me up on the offer, there will be more offers in the future. If you would like to advertise now, I’m happy to listen to any offers - most of which I will accept as long as they aren’t ridiculously low.

Thank you very much for visiting Buy Me A Ferrari, hope you like what you see so far. I’m going to split this first post into a few headings first so that it is a little easier for everyone to read and secondly because it’s easier for me to write!

About Buy Me A Ferrari

I started Buy Me A Ferrari as a blog where I can talk about the money I am making from my websites and all of the different methods I am trying. Hopefully I will be successful!

As much as I do want to buy a Ferrari - that isn’t the goal of the blog, making enough money from this blog to buy me a Ferrari is very hopeful - would be great if I did eventually make enough money to buy one (and even more).

I will be blogging about the different methods I am using to make money and also telling you about how much money I am making and spending (hopefully there will be more of the making and less on the spending!)

What I have done so far

So far, I have just basically installed WordPress, the theme and a few plugins.

The plugins

The plugins that I currently have installed on Buy Me A Ferrari are as follows:

• Akismet - I have got to keep control of the spam somehow - my other blog (FerrariDave) has benefited massively from this plugin and would have its fair share of spam comments without it!
• All In One SEO Pack - I also have this installed on FerrariDave and I must admit, it has helped me bring in a lot more readers from Google and other search engines
• DoFollow - Makes the URLs in the comments DoFollow rather than NoFollow
• MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad - I quite like this idea as it doesn’t really affect your template and just sits at the top of the page. If you would like to advertise, that’s what I’m getting to right now…

Advertise

I am setting my ad prices relatively cheap as I am just starting this blog, but the traffic to the blog will increase and I will be posting about the traffic at the end of the month. My current prices for Buy Me A Ferrari are:

125×125 Above the fold ($15/month) - This price is pretty low, but may seem expensive for a blog with very little traffic - however, within the first month this traffic will go up quite quickly so it should be a safe investment. These ad boxes are above the fold and receive a lot more exposure than those below the fold.

125×125 Below the fold ($10/month) - Again, I have set this price very low - it’s lower than those above the fold as generally these ads will receive a little less exposure.

Stripe text ad ($4/month) - These prices are really low and will be limited to 5 links in rotation only. So realistically your ad will be seen by one in five visitors. Not only that but it’s right at the top of the page and will be the first thing a visitor sees as they enter Buy Me A Ferrari.

Sidebar text link ad ($5/month) - Again, such a low price. This is for a link on the sidebar towards the bottom of the page. This will be limited to ten links at any one time so that there aren’t too many and you are getting value for money.

If you would like to advertise on this new blog for the extraordinary prices above, please contact me: advertise@buymeaferrari.co.uk - the prices above are actually negotiable but as they are really low, I doubt that should be necessary.

Summary

I’m not going to bore you any further. My next blog post will be about bringing in traffic to Buy Me A Ferrari and how I plan to do it. Thanks for reading up to this point, please subscribe if you would like to keep reading about my journey.