A true permission based on-exit survey that provides an easy to deploy, easy to use and easier still to analyze framework to answer 3 questions that no website owner can live without.

One of the more scalable methods of listening is surveys, and the greatest survey in the world only has three questions!

1. What is the purpose of your visit to our website today?
2. Were you able to complete your task today?
3. If you were not able to complete your task today, why not?

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All I can say is it is truly an outstanding book. Since I enjoyed the book so much, I thought I would post my Amazon.com review on this blog.

Ill make this brief since I plan to visit Seth’s Blog and send him an email as well to compliment him on this book.

This is the first of Seth’s books I’ve heard (purchased the audiobook). As someone who works in the depths of a corporation today, this book was refreshing, exciting and truly outstanding. I think this guy really gets it. Great job.

See my actual Amazon review here.

This website differs from other shopping comparison websites in that it does not appear to be overloaded with advertising BUT with that said it is in beta and does offer advertising services.

Note:Retail is separated in the report because it is a more developed market.

The products that are receiving the bulk of the attention online are “Video Games, Consoles & Accessories”

data compliments of comscore

I happened to be up late as usual working on projects, so I checked income.com from time to time for updates. It was interesting to be on the user side of a product release and watch as the blog was update with different problems his team was facing. At any rate, they appeared to handle it well.

BlogRush is now available and is displayed on this blog, in the sidebar on the right labeled “BlogRush”.

The registration and installation was very simple.

Oxygen Media has become the first cable network to have secured an ad sold through eBay’s Media Exchange platform, reports AdAge.

Adotas says:

Being the first successful seller on the advertising exchange, Oxygen has sold a schedule for the third quarter to Intel for a reported six-figure sum. Previous to this, Intel had not advertised on the network.

Some were skeptical of this idea stating that it will commoditize Internet ad space. It possible that this industry will have no other choice given nature of the Internet.

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Eventually, it hopes to refine the system to allow it to predict what products and services users might be interested in even before they have specifically mentioned an area.

Sounds like a familiar concept (Adwords).

Cnet writes:

This hazy new advertising model would let marketers take advantage of the fact that members of the social-networking site share not only basic data like their date of birth, gender, and ZIP code; but also more targeted data like favorite bands, notable quotations, and occupation

Read more about advertising in a 411directory

If I remember correctly it went something like the following. I got an advertisement first, followed by the prompt for city, state and listing name. After which, I was given the choice of receiving the number by operator or by text message to the number I was calling from. I elected the operator.

After speaking to the operator, I got another advertisement saying “this number is being brought to you by company name” and was asked again if I wanted to receive the number by text following the calls conclusion. I selected to receive the text message and was then connected to the listing I had requested. After the call ended I received the number via text message along with another advertisement.

In summary, this service served my purpose and I did not mind listening to a few ads for free information. Besides the fact that the operator answered the phone laughing, the experience was good. It would have cost me .75 if Id used my cellular provider.

This appears to be an interesting way to advertise a business.

Google offers the same 411 service without the ads (at least it was when we tested it) for free.

There is also an option to add advertising to the image. This service may be more useful for some campaigns than others. I suppose one could find a photo to express a lot of different products or services.

Although the examples that are provided by AdBrite, did display any direct relationship between the image and the advertisement.

This quote taken from AdBrites Help page says that it can be done.

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accepts: strings up to 1000 characters, each keyword/keyphrase separated by a comma.
If you choose to sell ads, AdBrite will use these keywords to help match your image to the most relevant and appropriate advertisers.

AdBrite also offers a similar service for Video instead of images, called BriteFlic.

Overall, with the growth of high speed internet access subscribers allowing more Internet users to enjoy images and videos (things that were often unpleasant over dial-up Internet access), I beleive that this service should be very successful and is an alternative to Google AdWords, which also offers Image and Video ads.