Posted by wjsawyer on June 03, 2008 7:16 PM

this works great, and not only do people find your site, you also get some entertainment.

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Posted by  on March 24, 2008 9:14 PM

Great info IceSixxx, definitely something to think about. I've had pretty good luck w/ stumble, but it's different for everyone. Also, it depends on what category you're advertising in. Some people are more harsh in certain categories and nicer in others. That's something to test out as well, try a lot of different categories.

Posted by IceSixxx on March 15, 2008 7:49 AM

I just gave a try to StumbleUpon ads campaign.
I have to say that I'm a StumbleUppon user since 2 1/2 years.

So, I did set up a little campaign. The test ran for one week and I put 50$ in the campaign. This means 1000 peoples. I played a little bit everyday with the parameters (set 100 peoples the first day then change to get more peoples).

I did set up a Sitemeiter counter on my page: this gives me the numbers of people visiting my page but also give me access to large statistics analysis.

Since I'm an electronic musician, I choose to advert in the IDM/Electronica domain.

Analysis show that 90% of the peoples doesn't stay even a second on the site. But in the 10% that stay longer, they stay for several minutes (between 2 to more than an hour).

I don't have more review in StumbleUpon and, for the 1000 peoples coming, had only 8 more thumbs up.

Some people really like the stuffs and write me nice comments and messages. Some come now everyday to vote in the contest.

My feelings are that it is effective but be ready to spent some dollars for nothing also. A 10 percent efficiency for me means that you can consider it's not 0.05$ by visitor but 0.5$ by visitor who'll stay more than a minute and take some time to listen, read and comment back to you.

Is it worth it? Well, it depends. If you're building a new audience and want to do it quickly and effortless, it's a fast way to drag people to your site but at a certain cost. If you have time, you can work on your social communities like MySpace friends or StumbleUpon friends.

My final word: unless you got plenty of money to spent in the ads campaign system so you can drag thousands to you site, don't rely only on this service to make your notoriety. It is helpful but not exclusive. Working on friends list also brings interested peoples: they're already your friends somewhere else so they know you. Just sell them the benefits of your new site (easy with the tons of features on Uber!).

It's all about commitments.

IceSixxx ;-)

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