Hello all -- I've introduced AuctionReporting customized ad service before, but after talking with a marketing professional he suggested that I give something away to show users how good it really is. Any subscription will start with a full month trial at our Platinum subscription level. That gives you nearly 99% of commission payed out to you -- but the improvements to our ads should get much more than 100% of your usual clicks, so it really should increase your commissions off of eBay sales. So, you've really got nothing to lose for the trial period. If you want out -- simply cancel before the first full month has passed. Thank you all for your time.
Also, we have also changed things so that as soon as you sign up, you have an additional 30 days to try out at Platinum level. That's two whole months to try this out.
Oh -- sure you can display pictures in the ads!! That's all controlled in the Appearance Customization Settings -- you have the choice of 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64 or no thumbnails. The default is no thumbnail because it was my thought that this may be the preferred output (looks like a plain text ad) -- but, the default should possibly be the big thumbnails, eh?
Here's a quick preview of a few ads that show some of the features. There are rounded corners available also, but these graphics are each around 30-50kb, so I didn't want to make too big of a post. I couldn't capture the mouse hint, but the hints display the item's title, current price, time left, and current bid count. Looks a bit familiar Very large thumbnails -- up to 256x256 Smaller thumbnails - minimum size is 16x16
Looks great, I'm interested in giving this a try, but I'll have to wait till next week before I have some free time to try this out. I tried this out several weeks ago but had a lot of problems getting ads to look right, seems like you've fixed that and improved the website design too. (price changed too? I can't remember) I'm getting sick of Auctionads problems.
Thanks for your interest. We've added a few new properties for the ads like "store name" or "seller IDs", added a URL destination tool, and made major improvements to the way that the ads get rendered. The pricing also has been lowered as well as commissions increased to closer to 100% (we have to make some money, eh). Anyway, we're starting to get some members join -- and so far all is running smoothly. If you have any questions of problems with the service, we have our forum set up to discuss anything like that there.
Somebody PM'd me and asked about text-only. Yes - you can choose to not display the thumbnails at all. Also, the font sizes can be between 7pt to 18pt with 18 different fonts to pick from.
One of our new clients requested the ability to center the images above the text. We've added the "Image / Text layout" option to the bottom of our "Appearance Customization" settings. Here's an example of an ad that uses this new settings (as well as a custom background graphic for fun).