[Showcase]Thumbtools.com - Direct Ad Sales

Hi! I'm promoting my website through this showcase and at the same time take feedbacks to all the audiences including potential customers.

Thumbtools.com is a marketplace for website owners and advertisers to meet their advertising demands. The website provides a set of tools to both members in-order to buy or sell premium advertisement spaces!

Latest
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Previous
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If you are interested in publishing your website and selling your advertisement merchandise or looking for publishers to work with, leave a note on this thread or send an e-mail to me at: admin@thumbtools.com!

http://thumbtools.com

All feedback welcome.

Website looks alright. Better than a lot of stuff I've seen on here.

When using Pingdom, google reports a 408ms load time, whereas thumbtools.com reports 3.61s load time.
So your site is apparently ~885% slower than google.com.

Maybe not using inline CSS and not putting javascript outside of the html tag would help a tad ;).

Also, get a theme up on PHPBB.

Homepage looks pretty nice. I suggest adding a hover effect to the Join Us button.

Why is there a quotation mark in the center of the first sentence? If it is a quote, may I suggest saying who originally said it, and moving the quotation mark to the left of the first sentence, instead of having it in the center.

The profile pages look pretty nice. But I don't see a need to open a profile in a new tab/window when you click one on the profile listing page.

Fully secure your SQL [ex. on registration page].

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You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ';';"1-1','e2a17fdbc99c0c517b84ccdc9bc91d25','publisher','0','44af17f7eeb1ad397af' at line 1

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Also, the capcha hurts my brain more than most capchas.
And from what I can tell, entering the capcha incorrectly only gives you the error "an input is missing". Make the error more specific ;).

Thanks Time! I've looked at those and made the fixes where necessary! The rest are in queue! To those who are curious how the SQL problem was fixed: a simple mistake of mine adding 'echo mysql_error()' on the script, this is when performing debugs.

I've made changes yet again to the homepage. If you're not seeing the image pictured below meaning the homepage is not yet fully compatible with your browser, I'm currently working on cross-compatibility feature for the designs.

http://i.imgur.com/dKmA6.png

All website owners invited! Come an join!

Thumbtools need more facebook likes! Express your appreciation by clicking the like button on the hompage!

I am currently making improvements within the control panel. Soon enough you'll see the results! It'll much better than the current cpanel!

All website owners invited - sell your advertisement spaces!

Like it on facebook, spread the word!

http://thumbtools.com

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Tweets after 30 minutes. I wish to hire my own personnel, too much stuff to do!

Previous:

http://i.imgur.com/dKmA6.png

Latest:
http://i.imgur.com/gez47.png

Updated homepage!

Bumping the topic. Any publisher or website owner are welcome to join, I need more publishers prepared for the marketers that are to advertise campaigns, if you're interested in selling your advertisement spaces just come an join. http://thumbtools.com

The forums is now ready! As Timebomb suggested in one of the topics I've posted the forums is customized to pair with the main website!

If you wish to engage in business or marketing orientated discussions join the forums! I'll discuss with you first hand whatever there is to know about business and marketing!

Thumbtools.com - Online Advertising Marketplace • Index page

More on a business note, but what is your take of the sale? For example I may sell my advertising space for £9 CPM, how much of this would I actually receive?

Hi, thanks for the interest! To answer you question: you will receive 92% of your total sales, only 8% commission fee is charged for every successful purchase made by advertisers so that means for the price of £10 you will receive £9.2 and you can cashout any time you want by wire-transfer, PayPal, or cheque!

Currently components to support CPM based ads as well as other advertising models are being developed, if you want an update on this simply subscribe to the newsletter and I will deliver the news as soon as the development is finished!

How much uniques are you getting a month and who are your intended audiences?

I'm also working on a scalable UI at the moment which will be done soon, surely it will improve the usability of the website.

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Originally Posted by getty

Hi, thanks for the interest! To answer you question: you will receive 92% of your total sales, only 8% commission fee is charged for every successful purchase made by advertisers so that means for the price of £10 you will receive £9.2 and you can cashout any time you want by wire-transfer, PayPal, or cheque!

Currently components to support CPM based ads as well as other advertising models are being developed, if you want an update on this simply subscribe to the newsletter and I will deliver the news as soon as the development is finished!

How much uniques are you getting a month and who are your intended audiences?

I'm also working on a scalable UI at the moment which will be done soon, surely it will improve the usability of the website.

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On a couple of my sites I've hit 2,000CPM in a week or so. Just out of intrest, do you have any policys for AD Farming or Forced clicks? :/:

Not as of yet because ads are sold at a fixed rate. Perhaps the main advantage for your advertisers in this case is that there will be no additional cost for every number of clicks or impressions that goes above expectations but you, however, will still be paid the same amount regardless if the ad has gotten less clicks or impressions than expected, so that's the gamble involved.

I think ad farming and forced clicks are a good approach to advertising, it's progressive and it doubles the effect. I'm carefully implementing PPC and CPV solutions at the moment. I'll keep you up dated about the progress, until it's up and running I can't tell any details about policies that might apply but I'm sure it won't be strict.

How much advertising demand are you getting at the moment?

Site Down?

Hi! I've come to post some updates from Thumbtools. It now supports Video and Rotating display ads! The ads also are now deployed in different servers to reduce the latency in data handling. Other features are in development and will soon be deployed to further enhance the capacity of the product.

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Site Down?

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Updates were installed while the website was down, that's the only time we take it down - for maintenance! I do apologise if it's caused you inconvenience, we'll post a note about any future updates and down times.


If you need help in using Thumbtools, send me a message!

Cheers!

http://i.imgur.com/PTeaz.png

Here is a latest screenshot of the control panel for publishers featuring a semi elegant UI!
The new template instalment enables expandable browsing of the website which also gives us the flexibility in controlling the distribution of the contents to keep it looking elegant and convenient, other features will be soon integrated especially features for mobile devices such as Ipads &c.

If you like the new template let me know!

Thanks! :)

How come the homepage now looks like the panel?

Kinda ugly for the main site. :(:

I'm sorry to disappoint. The big drawback with the previous template was that it was difficult to manage and also wasn't prepared for extended development. This new instalment features a generous space where tools will placed. I have yet to enrich those spaces with the following features to come.

Here's a new screenshot of the control panel I am working on featuring the semi-enriched line chart:

http://i.imgur.com/sDGrZ.png

Website Looks Great.
So Basically this site is Just about Advertising your Website?

Refer to the first post. :)

Hi! Just a quick update to tell that I've added a new look for most part of the website and ongoing development is in progress! The index page has been enhanced and the control panels are rearranged for better usability!

Cross-browser compatibility is still an issue that I'm working on.

Please leave a feedback!
http://thumbtools.com

The fresh template is ready! Check it out! There new elements added onto various pages of the website which I'm sure will be helpful to the visitors.

I'm currently perfecting the cross-browser integration for the template to reduce design errors when the website is viewed in different browsers!

Send me a message if you need any help!

There's an animation in the index page to give a glimpse of the control panel and other pages!

To those who are curious of what ad-types it currently supports: only direct ad sales (no cpm based ads yet) supporting
-video,
-texts,
-and display!

The Twitter sponsorship programme is still being repaired and will be available soon as well as the CPM functionality!

http://i.imgur.com/Ou8jz.png