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How to Boost Ad Revenue: Speed is Your Secret Weapon

todd — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:03:13 +0000

Most of you out there spend a great deal of time fine tuning your sites and making sure that your content is easy to consume for your visitors. There’s one key factor that you can easily control and that is the speed of your blog. It’s a widely known fact that the faster your site, [...]

Selling Ad Space: Tips from Top Design Blog Owners via Line25.com

todd — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:42:18 +0000

Chris over at Line25.com (also of Blog.SpoonGraphics.co.uk) put together a nice interview with a bunch of the top design related bloggers “Selling Ad Space: Tips from Top Design Blog Owners“. Many top bloggers from the BSA network were included in this post: Collis Ta’eed / Skellie of Tuts+, Jacob Gube of SixRevisions.com, Henry [...]

New Features: Custom Date Range, Whitelisting, Additional Earnings Detail

todd — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:32:32 +0000

We have released a few new features to the BSA app that many of your will be very pleased to see. We have some other interesting announcements and “larger” features in our pipeline forthcoming. You can be sure to find out about them first by subscribing to our blog and by following us [...]

BSA Infrastructure Upgrade

todd — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:08:07 +0000

During the past few weeks we have been working to upgrade two important pieces of BSA infrastructure: DNS and our CDN (content delivery network). These upgrades are very important for all of our publishers and to us as a company. We’re geeks, we like when things are *fast*, and we’re dedicated to speed. [...]

Perfect example of why you should take TOTAL control over your ad space

todd — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:16:45 +0000

Picture this, a big company with a respected brand contacts you and gives does a nice sales pitch about how they can get you a CPM (cost per thousand impressions) of N dollars and how they can make you more money from your ad space. Anyone with a large website has gotten this pitch [...]

Seth Godin Says You Need To Pay For Stuff

todd — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:09:51 +0000

Unfortunately, one of the first things I do in the morning when I wake up is check my Blackberry. Without a doubt, there is always a new blog post from Seth Godin – the most inspiring marketer/thinker/speaker (in the world that I live in). His post on Sunday morning, titled “Pay for stuff”, [...]

BSA Presentation At WebInno 22

todd — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:38:07 +0000

For those of you who don’t know, BSA is based in Boston, Massachusetts. In Boston, there is this event held quarterly called Web Innovators Group (WebInno for short). It’s a fun event that allows entrepreneur’s to talk about and demo their startups to other like-minded folks in Boston, and it’s the best of [...]

New Feature: Advertisers can easily “resubscribe” to ads

todd — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:57:32 +0000

Another very nice feature we were able to add this week on the heels of the new PayPal integration is the ability for advertisers to “resubscribe” to an ad. Use case: An ad is not performing well in the first week of a users 30-day subscription, the user cancels the ad. Towards the end of the [...]

New Feature: Manage / Modify Payment Methods

todd — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:01:04 +0000

On the heels of the release of our new integration with PayPal, we have added a much needed set of features allowing advertisers to more easily manage their subscriptions with BSA. For most eCommerce sites, this sort of feature set is normal; however, they are typically dealing with static one-off payment structures. With [...]

New Feature: Enhanced PayPal Integration

todd — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:41:23 +0000

You may have noticed our enhanced integration with PayPal that was launched recently. We let it run for a couple weeks before “officially” announcing this to make sure that users would find it as cool as we did. And, two weeks in, it definitely _ROCKS_. While this might not seem blog-post-worthy to some, it’s actually [...]