Shopping bag advertising

I went into town the other day and picked up some things for a new marketing campaign idea I have. I purchased some of those canvas shopping bags, a package of iron on transfer material and a package of printer cartridges for my printer. Now I am working on ideas for advertising for my websites that I can place on the sides of the shopping bags.

I'll create large sized iron-on printouts for the websites, and iron them onto the sides of the shopping bags. That way when I go to the store people will see advertising for my websites.

I have also been thinking this would be a good way to do advertising in general, but I'm not certain on just how to sell the ad space on the shopping bags. I can see where it would be a great way to get out business information, though, so I might talk to someone with one of the advertising sites I know about starting up a "Green Ads" deal where advertisers pay so much for people to print out ads that are ironed onto their reusable shopping bags with the size and placement of the ad determining the cost of the thing.

Work in Online Advertising

I was reading things on my iGoogle RSS feeds and found my way to an entry by Work at Home Success where someone asked if there were any no cost jobs for "...data entry online simple ad placing...". I was rather disappointed on reading the answer to the inquiry, Leslie Truex informed the person that there was no way to get work placing ads online unless they had special experience, and they they should "...scratch ad placing off the list of options, as I haven’t ever seen this offered as a legitimate job."

Now, granted that this article does bear a 2006 copyright date on it, but I would think that anyone that wanted to offer solid work at home advice would provide an update to the article - which I found on the front page as one of the two "top articles".

With the ever changing landscape of the Internet, there is indeed legitimate work from home jobs in ad placement now on the Internet. Companies such as PayPerPost, Blogsvertise, and Smorty allow anyone that has a firm desire to make money through online ad placement the opportunity to place advertising on blogs with very simple startup requirements.

For most of these companies all that is required is a blog that is over 3 months old, is updated on a regular basis with good posts, and is listed in major search engines such as Google. Each network has different requirements, and getting started does not have to be expensive. In fact, someone can get started on most of these services with a free blog and move to a domain after they have earned enough to make the move.

Do-It-Yourself Advertising

Advertising can be expensive, and most small businesses can not afford to invest a lot of money to advertise. The problem is, they also can not afford to invest a lot of time to do advertising.

One simple way to advertise inexpensively and easily is to make shopping bags.

Create a grocery bag with your advertising on it. Green shopping by taking your own bag is a great way to go, allowing you to save trees (both normal ones and plastic trees!). Create your own shopping bags from inexpensive canvas bags from the hobby shop, using iron on printouts you make on your computer to place your business information on the bags. Whenever you shop, the clerk and whoever is behind you in line will see your logo as you pack your groceries into your bag.

You can even create bags for friends and family to use.