the(new)mediaslut

The whole experience of putting up Blog2u.sg’s advertiser Chain of Beads had this human touch to it that seem lacking from Nuffang and Adverlets.

The human touch may not be as efficient as automation, but it at least gives me, as a blogger, some control to what advertisings I want on this blog.

So Blog2u.sg contacted me about the banner ad placement for Chain of Beads on Oct 26 but I only replied the email yesterday.

Bloggers have the right to reject the ad, but Blog2u.sg has highlighted they won’t penalise you for it with regards to consideration for future ads.

Though the maximum 10 slots were fully taken, Cherry from Blogs2u.sg replied saying that Chain of Beads was interested to look at more blogs to advertise on.

An hour later, Cherry replied to highlight this blog was approved together with the code and the ad was up on this blog within minutes.

After which I replied with bank account number and the SGD3 was credited immediately.

The transaction was done over email but hey, isn’t email still communication? I hope Cherry isn’t a robot mass mailer software.

Here is a suggestions for Blog2u.sg.

Send out a fresh email with a new headline when you have an advertiser for the bloggers. Most emails now are stacked base on conversation, so when you hit the reply button, it justs stacks onto the original email. This could be a possible reason why I might missed out on the email though I accessed the account over the weekend.

I noticed a spelling error in the ad though and I was wondered if this was done on purpose.

There is no plural in jewellry.

However, when you google “beaded jewelries”, Chain of Beads hits as a result on position 4 on page 1 and position 5 on page 1 on Google.

If you put “beaded jewelery” or “beaded jewellery” or “jewellery making”, the Chain of Beads site doesn’t appear on the first 100 results of google.com.

For Google.com.sg though, Chain of Beads came out on position 3 on page 1 for “jewellery making” and position 5 on page 2 for “beaded jewellery”.

I emailed some questions to Izel Ang, the owner of Chain of Beads, but have yet to get a answer to put into this post.

I hope to hear from her soon.

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