Getting banners designed is often one of the biggest hassles and one of the reason that some folks don’t buy internet advertising. If you already do advertise online, then you need to have a professionally designed ad, and you should be changing up your banner ads often and rotating new creatives. Here are 5 companies that will have your banners designed super fast all for around $25. No excuses now.

1) 20DollarBanners.com – I’ver personally used these guys about 10 times and they have been around for years. Interface is easy to use, quality of the banners is just average, turn-around time is pretty quick, usually within 24-48 hours and they allow a few free revisions. Prices starting at around $20.

2) BannersMall.com – 24 hour turnaround guarenteed. Prices starting at $24.95. If you are not satisfied with your banner design after 5 revisions, you will receive a full refund.

3) AdNinjas.com – A very cool name, and price is adjusted on how fast you’d like it. Looks like a fairly new player in this space.

4) BannerMode.com - Prices starting at $14. Grammar on the site is not so great, so english may be a bit of an issue, but worth the risk for that price.

5) RapidBanners.eu – If you want to pay in pounds this is the site for you, with prices starting at 5.95

OK now that you have your banners, go buy some advertising with prices also starting at $25! AdvertiseSpace.com

Know of any other banner companies? Does your company design banners? Feel free to link your companies name in the comment section.

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#1 Show the Advertise Here banner.  This is the most important one, so I’ve started with this. Some people put them up for a few days and get discouraged without a sale and pull them down.  If you don’t have the open spot, you just won’t sell it.  Advertisers want to know exactly what they are getting and exactly where the ad is, not just a description of where it might go.  They need to visualize themself in that spot.  Keep that ‘Advertise Here’ banner up and running.

#2 Start low & Go high.  Start your prices off lower than you normally would like to get for the ad spots, and as they sell slowly increase the price until you have a solid number of happy advertisers that continue to stay on month after month. Or even have a special price for the first banner sold.

#3 Tweet about it! – Twitter is one of the easist sources of free traffic and can also grab you a quick ad spot sale. I’ve sold many ads just by saying, “Hey we have an open ad spot on X for sale” @ reply me if you’d like to buy it.

#4 Personalize it. Tell your potential buyers who are you and why would I want to advertise with you? Won any awards? Are you rated on the top of any lists? If you want to sell anything, you need to sell yourself first.  Beef up that description.

#5 Keep your banners above the fold. If you want to sell your ads, you should keep them higher up on the page, so that they are visible without scrolling.  Ask yourself, If I was an advertiser myself, where would I want to be? At the top of course.

#6 Blog about your advertising for sale. This is one of the easiest ways to sell a banner spot on your site really quick and one that a lot of bloggers forget to do or just skip completely.  Tell your readers that you have new advertising spots on your blog for sale, as your own readers are the #1 source as a potential advertiser. Go on, you’re a blogger, blog about your advertising space for sale!  Don’t be shy.

#7 Don’t put 6 or 8, open spots on your site.  Start with 1 or 2 and add more as you sell, or mix in some affiliate banners.  You should only have 1 or 2 ‘advertiser here’ banner on your site.  Advertisers also don’t want to be first, they want to know that others are already advertising on your site.

Got any more tips?

~ Chad

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1. It is Painful searching  for Advertisers.
2. Emailing potential advertisers.
3. Finding the right person who actually does the marketing.
4. Pitching them.
5. Putting together banner ad packages.
6. Sending out Insertion Orders.
7. Waiting for signed faxes.
8. Waiting on creative after deal is signed.
9. Getting banners from advertisers that are not up to your sites specs.
10. Getting banners that don’t even work.
11. Getting horrible banners that blink and flash.
12. Getting flash banners that don’t have a click URL in them.
13. Uploading banners to Ad servers.
14. Using ANY AD SERVER= Most Painful!
15. Dealing with cheezy sales reps.
16. Hiring sales reps.
17. Paying expense sales reps.
18. Invoicing for banner ads sold.
19. Trying to collect payments for ads sold.
20. Getting clients to pay for the 2nd month.
21. Making sure ads are renewed and still running.

Guess what?

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~ Chad

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