State Associations can be found online, in directories, and in "The Intelligent Testing System" – a program that offers specific reference data on classified advertising. It's a compilation database of names, addresses, and phone numbers of all the state newspaper associations in the U.S., along with all the major national classified ad buying associations. It also includes the specific discount rates for virtually every local paper published in the United States.

If you want to learn how to place 100 to 10,000 classified ads nationwide with a single phone call at highly discounted rates, The Intelligent Testing System is the ultimate program on classified ads. You'll see exactly where to buy cheap newspaper advertising and how to purchase newspaper classified advertising in bulk at a discount.

2. Local Newspaper Advertising.

Discount advertising rates abound in local newspaper advertising if you know how to ask. If you're just buying one ad one time it's pretty hard to get cheap newspaper advertising rates. But if you are a local retailer, all your ads are going to be local advertising. And chances are great that you're placing more than just the single ad, so you have A) good credibility and B) great negotiating power – so you need to C) ask for a discount for all local ads your print advertisement campaign.

Everyone likes a winning ad – advertisers love it because it consistently brings in business, the papers love it because if a client's retail print advertising is successful, they'll run it more frequently – perhaps forever. So ask for a discount for your print advertising rates, and here's the way you go about it.

3. How to politely ask for a discount newspaper advertisement rate:

Ask for:

- 2 ads for the cost of 1 (buy one get one free special)

- Ask for a larger ad at a smaller ad price

- Buy 2 get one FREE rate

- Mail Order Rate

- Multiple Insertion Rate

- Contact Rate (for longer insertion contracts)

- Remnant Space Rate

4. Send a press release with every ad you place.

A press release doubles your exposure and with the successful placement of your press release, your credibility goes up – way, way up.

Remember, newspaper editors love press releases. They have a complete newspaper to fill up every day (every week for weekly papers) and writing it all themselves is tough. Newspaper advertising needs support from the editorial, and if you write your press release correctly you'll be providing this editorial support. See our 85-page chapter on writing press releases in the book, "How To Market a Product For Under $500."

5. Ask your local paper for "remnant space."

If placing national ads, use a remnant space buying service – there are several great ones around, and are shown in the book "Direct Marketing Strategies."

"Remnant space" is the term that makes all newspaper and magazine publishers cringe.

Also called "Standby space," this is the unsold part of the newspaper left over just before the newspaper goes to press. Like an empty seat on an airplane when the door is closing, newspaper advertising space is a perishable commodity. The newspaper publisher can't leave it blank – it would appear as a white hole in a gray page of print, so sometimes they'll run a house ad for the newspaper, or sometimes a free ad for a charity like the United Way. But most times it's sold, and anything paid for it is better revenue than a non-paid space. This can mean cheap and highly discounted newspaper advertising space ads for you.

Remnant ad space is always sold late in the selling cycle, at the last closing moments before the printing process. You won't know if your remnant space ad made it into the paper until the last second, but the steep discounts make it worth the wait.

Discount newspaper advertising rates can be as high as 80% off list. That's right, you can get cheap newspaper advertising space by paying 20 cents on the dollar by asking for "remnant space" or "standby space." For the complete article on how to buy discount newspaper space please read the book, Uncommon Marketing Techniques, or click through to our website as sometimes we feature this article in our rotating article presentations.

Regardless of the price you pay for your newspaper advertising rates, always ask for great placement of your ad in the FRONT of the paper, on the TOP of the page (called above the fold) and flush right – on the RIGHT HAND (outside position) of the RIGHT hand page. This is the highest visibility spot in the paper. Ads that are in the lower part of the paper or buried in the gutter are much lower visibility and lose effectiveness from this poor placement.

You need to ask for this "FFRH" (Far Forward Right Hand" position above the fold spot before you say "yes" to the final placing of your ad. Once you say yes to placing your newspaper ad, you don't have any further negotiating power. Even highly discount print advertising rates won't help if your ad isn't seen because it's in the left hand page gutter – visually buried under everyone else's ad. Hope this is helpful.

Bio, Jeffrey Dobkin –
If you're struggling with poor response from your direct marketing newspaper campaigns, you can solve this problem and get help fast. Get amazing results by reading practical how-to marketing tips to increase your phone calls – and customers – receive articles you can trust by Jeffrey Dobkin. Dobkin has is the author of 4 books on direct marketing that feature his practical marketing tips and successful direct marketing methods, all written in his own brilliant conversational style of writing. He can be reached at 610-642-1000. Read more of his articles at http://www.danielleadams.com

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When Google first offered to share their advertising revenue with us in the Spring of 2003, it was pretty easy to bank some nice cash when our visitors clicked on those tiny classified ads displayed on our site…

… But these days, those Google AdSense revenue payments are getting smaller and thinner… even as our traffic grows.

Most say it's impossible to make money with AdSense. I felt the same way until a few months ago.  Today, I know there's money to be made with AdSense ads… if you know the secrets which I'm about to share with you.

This short AdSense tutorial is going to reveal my best-kept AdSense secrets to DRAMATICALLY boost your Google AdSense earnings. I stumbled upon these secrets by reverse engineering some of the websites that brag about making over $100,000.00 a year.

Tweak your title for higher AdSense revenues
Tweaking the title on your webapge is often the difference between banking a few pennies per click on your AdSense ads to generating over a dollar per click.

Compare these similar phrases:

- DIY home surveillance
- do it yourself home security

Both keyword phrases seem identical… and they are in meaning. But the difference is advertisers are willing to pay 169 times more for webpages themed for "do it yourself home security" (average of $8.47 per click) compared to "DIY home surveillance" (5 cents a click).

Hit the Google AdSense "sweet spot"
My never-ending testing reveals there's a direct correlation between the placement of the AdSense ads and the resulting click thru.

When ads are placed in “content zones” (rather than in “advertising zones), you typically generate more Google AdSense revenue.

Where is the content zone? It's located just above your content. Most visitors are blind to ads placed in the traditional spots… but those same ads placed above the beginning of our content usually get clicked more often.

Introducing the perfect AdSense templates
While there are currently 12 AdSense templates to display, I find the 336 x 280 (large rectangle) ads convert better than any other format.

And don't fret about optimizing for smart phones and mobile devices… my testing shows they hardly ever click on AdSense ads.

Make your AdSense ads blend in with your content

Let's face it, our website visitors HATE ads. Most use ad blockers and their 6th sense to avoid ads.

That's why you want to have your AdSense blocks blend in with the overall appearance of your webpage. Have the background of your ads match the background of your webpage. And don't add borders… this tips off your webpage visitors that you're displaying ads.

Triple your AdSense revenues with this one addition
AdSense for Search is MUCH more profitable than AdSense for Content. It's true.

In addition to placing standard AdSense template ads, I place a Google AdSense search box at the bottom of my content… and each click averages 317% higher eCPM (effective cost per thousand impressions) than displayed ads.

Dumb down your webpage
A new and very interesting study reveals the way a person arrives from a search engine like Google. It helps us understand how they click on your ads.

Specifically, people who search by clicking the button on Google’s homepage are 50% more likely to go on to click ads on your page than people who search by any other Google means, according to online ad network Chitika.

Confused? I understand. Let me explain… if Joe Blow searches Google for "hard drive recovery" and completes his search clicking the [Search] submit button, Joe Blow (on average) is 50% more likely to click on your AdSense ads than if he were to search using the [Enter] key.

Why the big difference? One can only guess that sophisticated web surfers are searching without the additional effort of clicking Google's [Search] submit button (while less-sophisticated searchers are clicking the search button — and clicking on our Google AdSense ads.

Bottom line:  It appears advertising click rates are inversely proportional to the “tech-savviness” of the people receiving the ads. So tweak your webpage theme to target beginners, not sophisticated users.

Eliminate unprofitable advertisers in a click
How'd you like to delete the worst advertisers (displayed on your webpages) in just a few fast and easy mouse clicks?

Google now offers a best-kept secret way to ban advertisers who don't write profitable ads. It's called "Category Filters" and you find it by logging into your AdSense account and going here:

AdSense Setup –> Ad Review Center

As you see, Google shows you "Filtered Categories" and up-to-date results.

Google AdSense allows us to eliminate categories if they're unprofitable. For example, 8.9% of my ads display "Get Rich Quick" advertisers… nothing wrong with that, but my "% Recent Earnings" is 0.0%. That means I'm displaying ads that are paying me nothing. So I checked it off, clicked the [Submit] button… and now those unprofitable ads are no longer displayed.

Final tip
I wrote a tutorial on how to find the most profitable words in your niche… click here to read my online manual on keyword discovery.