Brave New World!
October 15th, 2008“Brave New World” was a mid-20th century novel by Aldous Huxley describing the kind of world in which I certainly would not wish to live, but nevertheless I thought it an appropriate title for this fresh start of the BrunleaBlog.
Certainly for me it marks a major step forward in my online activity. Having worked online through email and web sites since the early 1990s my previous big transition was just under three years ago when I started selling and advertising, rather than simply providing free information, on some of my web sites.
Then in mid-2007, having learned some of the pitfalls of online marketing I decided to start a site devoted to that subject, and called it the BrunleaWeb. [Why this name? That's considered elsewhere.] Now I’m expanding it further. BrunleaWeb.com, jointly with one of my other sites AdMastery.biz, will now not only discuss marketing and refer readers to other sites and services but will itself provide a range of advertising facilities.
The first of the new services is an Ad Exchange providing for text ads, html ads, traffic links and email solos which can be bought for cash or paid for in points earned by viewing other people’s ads. Also along with it I’m launching another very economical, but deceptively powerful, service – a Word Cloud.
While preparing for the launch of these I was considering putting up a post on the somewhat moribund Brunlea Blog but then thought, “Why not move the blog from its old home on Blogger and re-launch it as a WordPress blog forming a part of the new suite of services?”
So here we are!
In the next couple of days I expect to launch the first tranche of services, to be followed rapidly by …. (I’m not telling yet), and then later another major component in the mix which I think will be highly popular.
As to pricing, of course I need to earn from these but also I want to help others who are struggling to get off the ground with their internet-based businesses and don’t have much by way of cash to spend on the startup. So these sites will economically be one level up on my other recently started venture “Starting-from-Nothing” and I’ll be adopting a competitive pricing policy including eventually a single modest monthly or annual subscription giving access to the entire suite.
More in a day or two.
- David -
