SITE: http://33banners.com<p>IDEA: Sell banner ad templates to individuals and small businesses who don't want to pay a designer to develop their online advertising material. This includes banners for advertising on both ad networks (like Google AdWords), and affiliate sites.<p>I just launched what I think is a minimum viable product yesterday, and really want to get lots of feedback. Do you think it is a good idea? What would you do differently? What features would you add to the site to make it better. AND, most importantly, will this mvp make $500 a month? This is my goal for a passive revenue stream. All comments, suggestions, criticisms, etc. are appreciated.<p>I recognize that it is a pretty "unsexy" idea, and there are a lot of people doing cutting edge stuff with HTML5 ads etc. But I think there is a market for people looking to spend under $50.
I'm curious if you did any google search term research? How many people are searching for things like "ad banner templates" etc. Once you find those you can more directly provide a solution for what people want.<p>For example if there are lot of "ad banner builder" , "free banner themes", "how to run ads" etc, it more directly hints at what your customers needs are.<p>You could also try throwing a couple of your templates on <a href="http://graphicriver.net" rel="nofollow">http://graphicriver.net</a> and see if anyone is interested.<p>My main advice is to figure out what type of people want your service. On one hand it seems like you are targeting people that don't know or don't want to deal with banner ads but they feel like they should. I think thats problematic because the people that are prepared to get started with a banner ad campaign arguably know the basics of photoshop. Or if they don't they are going to need something a little more robust than what you currently offer. Then there's the case where a person is 100% happy with a basic banner theme, I'd argue such a person would also need a little more help in actually gaining a return on his campaign. In other words the people interested in an easy, simple, quick and dirty banner design, are not necessarily going to be the people thinking scientifically enough to gain any long term benefits from banner advertising.<p>This is all just theory though. Hope this helps.
You're far from your stated goals but I like what you have there. You need more templates tough.<p>And explicitly say somewhere how do I order custom designs. If I didn't like the 8 or so that you have there what options do I have?<p>Otherwise what you have there is an e-commerce site sellings a few pre-defined image sets. It's like you said the minimum viable product, which is cool.<p>And yes, you can make more than US$ 500 per month, if you execute properly :)
> 1) As already stated, increasing your range to appeal to a broad cross-section of customers and repeat customers. 2) A good marketing strategy. At this stage I'd say (1) should be your focus but you might want to start thinking about (2) quite soon.<p>Any one have any good suggestions on number (2)??? I have a few basic ideas, but haven't hit upon anything solid yet.
I would use something like this, but, as inerte says, you need a heck of a lot more selection. Maybe you could team up with designers and resell their work, giving them a cut?