I’m a music producer and I use Facebook ads and pay 0.50 for 1000 impression with daily budget 2.00 a day. I also use Google adwords with 0.50 PPC. I target rappers and singers etc on facebook and put beats for sale on Google. Which one is more better and how many time must consumer see ad before clicking and most likely buying?

I sell balloons for balloon sculptures, they are kinda specific, I sell 260q balloons online, and I have pretty competitive prices. I am new to this, it has been up for a couple months, and in that time I have had about 1500 visitors to my site (a lot of the traffic has been free, through link building) and some of the are through very specific adwords campaign, that is targeted to people looking for this specific balloon type in the united states. But even with all this browsing, not 1 single person has bought even 1 bag, what am I doing wrong? The site is http://www.bobbyballoonz.com it’s driving me nuts, and increasing the budget didn’t really help, just shelling out more money on the clicks, I’m going crazy.
I have gotten some great feedback in the first couple of answers, you guys were great thanks so much. I have refined the page a couple of times now, and I got my content up higher "above the fold" and what not. I consolidated that product page and moved all that "jibber jabber" stuff to a completely different page, and got the products wam, bam, right in your face. I also have been working on some more SEO stuff from a book I purchased called "The Small Business Owner’s Handbook to SEO", it’s working pretty well, and I have gotten at least the product page a little bit better "optimized" for search results. Thanks for taking the time to help me out. The remainder was a lot of people who didn’t even really read the post (I don’t need more traffic at the moment, I need conversions) thanks for posting a lot of links I am not going to click… LOL

I set up auto payment with google adwords, to my credit card, I set the daily budget at 000, never thinking it would get even close, and I set the bid for the keyword "sex" at .00 per click, globally, I went to the store to buy groceries, and when I got home my credit card was nearly maxed out, I am 15k in debt, and I got a whole bunch of hits on a site that was just a test on my part, what can I do?
I guess there is no chance at getting a refund?
Yes I need help! I am flat ass brokey and considering just living with bad credit from now on. It doesnt help that I owe money to gangsters, so far I have lost more money online between the get rich quick schemes and other bs, that I probably will not be able to pay back anything, I lost my job, and my car was totalled, I am FUKD, one week of poor choices sent my budget to hell, and now I have to go on the run…

I have a Bed and Breakfast and I also make stained glass, but my adwords campaigns are losing serious money. Is there any company I can pay a monthy fee and they will guarantee so many –

Backlinks
Leads
Website Visitors

I have loked at a few, but they are WAY too expensive for my budget. I have no idea about the web, but I do know there is business to be had.

I own a small business in Seal Beach, California and I want to hire a company to handle my Internet and online marketing. Can anyone recommend a decently priced company in or around Orange County? I don’t have a large budget, so I do not want one of these companies that charges hundreds of dollars just to talk.

I am interested in going with Site Build It to start a website. After doing a lot of research in how websites get indexed into Google, Yahoo, Ask, etc, I have found that Site Build It seems to really be a time saver while helping your site get traffic.

However, the price for Site Build It seems pretty steep. It seems to average out to a month. This is not bad, but putting 0 bucks up front for my budget is. My only fear is that there are hidden fees. Do they try to upsell you to anything else promising you will do better? Do you have to put in a lot of money to google adwords to ensure your website will draw traffic? I have seen a lot of blogs and such about site build it that say you have to follow it exactly for it to work.

There are a lot of sites/products that promise a good thing, but fail to mention there are other things you have to buy. I am not looking for anyone giving me the run around then providing me with their link to give them profit.
Its not that I do not want to give someone a profit for their hard work, but for right now I am just wanting to get all of the information I can before I invest my time and money.

I would also like to know how much you can make with this program. I understand it is not a get rich quick. I currently have about 5 blogs that I work with that have affiliates and ad programs and realize that it takes time. I also understand that it depends on what niche you choose.

I am not looking to dig into anyone’s personal life, but feel that at least getting an idea of what I can potentially make per month or per year would be the same as going onto the occupational handbook to look up a job and the potential income. Everytime I have asked the question of what you can make, people have said " I have made the cost of the site plus more"

This does not tell me anything..it could be 9 + . Thanks in advance for the answers.

We want a scalable solution that is affordable but robust enough to handle an sharp increase in demand.

1) Performance – We want our hosting to be able to scale quickly to handle an increase in traffic.
2) Email – We will be sending our members critical event notification emails that we don’t want listed as SPAM. Anything we can do in the hosting environment to improve this would be great.
3) Security – We don’t have full-time staff, so it would be great if more of the IT maintenance / updates / monitoring that can be done by the hosting provider.
4) Cost – we have a limited budget, and we can’t get into a long-term contract.

Technical details: Windows hosting w/ SQL required.

What are the best solutions out there?

Many thanks

I am thinking about restarting some pay-per-click advertising with goodle and yooha…

Last time I had some campaigns running, I’m pretty sure that my ad budget was being chewed through by crooked competitors.

Any suggestions on how to avoid fraudulent clicks and how to catch a competitor doing this? If I can catch the competitor doing it, do you think goodle / yooha would take action?

I work in SEM advertising and manage PPC accounts for a large company. I was contacted out of the blue by a company asking me to manage their accounts on a freelance base. What do I charge?

Do I charge by hour? By % of budget? Also what is the best way to set up a relationship with the customer, having them pay through paypal or something else? Any help is appreciated.

I want to advertise with pay per click advertising. My budget is a month for right now. What would be a good price to pay per click to have a decent position on a search engine?