On 19th November 2006, the domain Kumomo.com was registered. The Kumomo Project has been developed by the team at 1.com.my to match ad space owners and buyers. At the same time, a portion of the money is donated to a charitable cause. The first charity organization the Kumomo Team engaged was American Assistance for Cambodia (AAC).

In the recent months, an anonymous corporation has expressed keen interest in the domain name Kumomo.com. After a few rounds of discussions, they have decided to take full ownership of the domain name Kumomo.com and would make the necessary compensation to the project.

Most importantly, with the acquisition of the domain name, they have also generously agreed to donate USD26,000 to build 2 schools in Cambodia. This is in addition to the sum that has been collected from all members’ contribution to the Kumomo Tree Project all these while.

“Thank you very much for your very generous arrangement and gesture to turn this sum over to us to build two schools. We are very grateful and so will be hundreds of Cambodia children who will benefit by gaining an education they would otherwise would not be able to pursue,” said Bernard Krisher, Chairman of AAC.

http://www.1.com.my/2008/01/22/ad-space-platform-building-two-cambodian-schools/

Of course, this wouldn’t be successful without the interactions between the owners of these Ad Spaces as well as the Advertisers and so, I would like to represent the Kumonian team to give our deepest heartfelt gratitude and thanks to so many of you that have browsed through kumomo.com and have made use of this small little ad space platform whether you are just someone that accidentally stepped onto the site or someone that owns an ad space or someone that buys an ad space through this community.

I believe we have have come a long way into making this online trading platform the way it is today and I hope that we will continue to strive towards our goals and together, we can achieve greater heights. Therefore, I would like to say kudos to everyone that have helped in any ways and hopefully we can continue to work on this and make this a very successful online ad marketplace! Once again, my heartiest thanks and congratulations to everyone! A job well done I must say!

The report by research body Forrester said online adverts would leap to 18% of market share, up from 9% currently.

It said 52% of people were now regularly online, spending more time doing so than watching television.

The UK will continue to see the most online advertising in the next four years, ahead of Germany and France.

‘Valuable medium’

European internet users now spend 14.3 hours a week online, compared with 11.3 hours watching TV, and 4.4 hours reading newspapers or magazines, the research group said.

As a result of this increased internet usage, 36% of people who go online said they spent less time looking at the television as a result.

The report said search engines would continue to dominate online advertising spend, followed by display advertisements and e-mails.

“After five years of dipping their toes into the online marketing waters, firms have come to realise that the net is a valuable medium for client acquisition, retention and market expansion,” said the study.

Source: BBC News

“I often browse kumomo to find place to put my ads for Kaklong Online Portal and CoolSavings4U since some of the adspace are cheap and I hope I could help other people while helping myself. This is my second time booking through Kumomo. If I get a good response, I might as well advertise on many other sites listed on Kumomo!” – Khairun Nisa Aziz.

Let’s hope more people will find kumomo.com a quick and easy place to buy/sell ad spaces in the future ^_^

Cheers!

Man auctions ad space on forehead

This model shows how the forehead advert could work

A 20-year-old US man is selling advertising space on his forehead to the highest bidder on website eBay. Andrew Fischer, from Omaha, Nebraska, said he would have a non-permanent logo or brand name tattooed on his head for 30 days.

“The way I see it I’m selling something I already own; after 30 days I get it back,” he told the BBC Today programme.

Mr Fischer has received 39 bids so far, with the largest bid currently at more than $322 (£171).

“The winner will be able to send me a tattoo or have me go to a tattoo parlour and get a temporary ink tattoo on my forehead and this will be something they choose, a company name or domain name, perhaps their logo,” he told the Radio 4 programme.

I wouldn’t go around with 666, the mark of the beast Andrew Fisher

On the online auction, Mr Fischer describes himself as an “average American Joe, give or take”.

His sales pitch adds: “Take advantage of this radical advertising campaign and become a part of history.”

Mr Fischer said that while he would accept any brand name or logo, “I wouldn’t go around with a swastika or anything racial”.

He added: “I wouldn’t go around with 666, the mark of the beast.

“Other than that I wouldn’t promote anything socially unacceptable such as adult websites or stores.”

He said he would use the money to pay college fees – he is planning to study graphic design.

The entrepreneur said his mother was initially surprised by his decision but following all the media attention she felt he was “thinking outside the box”.

Scrubbing The Sidebar For Better PageRank
In an attempt to gain higher PR value for the upcoming Google PageRank update, I have decided to relocate most of the links I have placed on my sidebar to the page I have created especially for linking purpose. By doing that, not only I will be able to make the sidebar look neat, it also help me save this blog from looking too cluttered. So, what’s left on the sidebar now are blogs that are somehow related with what I am doing right now, which is to make money online. I am planning to use an external blogroll management tool. Anyone have any idea what I can use?

Why Am I Doing This?
I relocate the links so that I can make sure that my future and current blog visitors to have better focus when they read my blog, and that would mean better reading experience.
And as you can see, I even removed the archives that I did based on monthly basis. I am not sure if that’s a wise decision but I will just let it be that way first. I don’t think that anyone would even care how old this blog is anyway, do you?
But, of course I didn’t remove the archives according to their categories. At least they would be able to make this blog look more organized.

Goodbye ReviewMe, Say Hello To PPP Direct
As you can see, I have removed the ReviewMe Button and replaced it with PPP Direct. The reason is simple, I just want my potential advertiser to pay what their money’s worth. I intend to make at least $40 per post, so by using PPP Direct, I can help anyone who’s interested to get me write about them to save 50% of the money for other marketing campaign purpose.

CBAds Genie On Main Page, AdSense on Single Post Page
I believe that I can control the type of ads that will show up on my blog for their first time visit if they land on my main page, it’s really impossible for me to make sure that I would be able to target the exact type of ads that my blog visitors would want to see on the single post. That’s why I decided to keep AdSense to show up on my single blog entry.
The logic behind this is, I know that almost 90% of the blog visitor that type in my domain url will expect to see post that is related about making money online. So, that should not be a problem. But, most of the traffic that comes from search engine are from random searches, so, I can’t really decide what kind of ads that supposed to show up.

Advertlets And Nuffnang Removed
I must be out of my mind but I don’t see any reason why I would want to keep a banner for pennies. That’s why I choose to go with Kumomo. Kumomo is a free marketplace anyway, and if there’s anyone from Nuffnang or Advertlets that is interested to get a banner advertising on my blog, they would be able to notice my in the marketplace anyway.

What I am trying to accomplish here is to prove that “less is more� minimalism principle is a very real. If this principle holds true with AdSense, I didn’t see any reason why there would be any difference with TLA or Affiliate links that you choose to display on your sidebar. 

From http://www.miriguy.com/2007/07/04/i-am-scrubbing-the-blog-sidebar/